Dingeryote
Silver Member
Puke. We are doing it to ourselves. I found the statement below in the attached link. Kinda backfired.
Johl tore out 80 acres of cling peaches at his Yuba County ranch this season, part of a tree-pull program sponsored by the state peach board to reduce the supply of peaches and help bolster prices.
US (CA): Peach growers fight imports
Same thing is happening with Mich. Peaches, and now Blueberries.
Not China, but nasty 3rd world crap holes in South America
10 years ago, the UN funded program to introduce new Ag products paid for several of the leading blueberry plant biologists, to go to Chile' and argentina.
The very same Plant Biologists that are funded by my state and us growers. They set up a couple California importers operations to suit, and now the fruit is imported fresh and frozen killing the domestic market. How can it be done cheaper? Easy. No Democrats in Chile' or Argentina, so there is no EPA/USDA/USDOL/FDA etc. costing the producers billions, and they do not have to pay labor a Min. wage. Most of all, they do not have shiney shoes citiots mandating grower practices that cost billions for no gain in food safety.
If the USDA treated the imported crap, the same way they do the stuff we grow, it would never get into the country.
Unfortunately, the chineese can afford to bribe Obama and the Feds more than we can.
The biggest fraud going right now is Honey.
The Chineese will bootleg label thier stuff blatently and half the big retailers could give a Rats butt where it came from.
The Bee keepers are already losing thier arse with CCD, and because of the Chineese, they are losing on the market.
So many have given up, it drives the cost of pollenation higher, and makes U.S. produce even less viable against the Red Chineese garbage.
Country of Origin labeling requirements should a no brainer.
Nice big letters on the front. Price my ***, people will pay more to avoid the chineese crap, or the importers wouldn't be fighting it so hard.