<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Competing offer for U.S. Sugar complicates Everglades restoration plan]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by hipifreq http://www.grist.org/article/sugar1/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:31:27 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/sugar1/1 Get to the heart of the problem

What needs to be addressed with the sugar industry in Florida is the massive government subsidy that receive. Without money from my pocket growing sugar in Florida would not be a profitable business as sugar from other countries is much cheaper to produce, and not necessarily because labor is cheaper, but because it's just easier to grow.

IMHO, we should remove the subsidy and allow these farms to leave. Then the state/feds can pickup the land on the cheap.

]]> Get to the heart of the problem

What needs to be addressed with the sugar industry in Florida is the massive government subsidy that receive. Without money from my pocket growing sugar in Florida would not be a profitable business as sugar from other countries is much cheaper to produce, and not necessarily because labor is cheaper, but because it's just easier to grow.

IMHO, we should remove the subsidy and allow these farms to leave. Then the state/feds can pickup the land on the cheap.

]]> Comment #2 by Biodiversivist http://www.grist.org/article/sugar1/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:10:59 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/sugar1/2 Once again farming and biodiversity

clash. Which one will win?

]]> Once again farming and biodiversity

clash. Which one will win?

]]> Comment #3 by Wolverine http://www.grist.org/article/sugar1/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:39:02 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/sugar1/3 Just Take The Land

The government can always condemn the land and take it by eminent domain.  So long as the government can show a public purpose, which restoration of the Everglades clearly is, this type of action cannot be stopped.  The only issue in court would be the amount of money the government would have to pay.

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The government can always condemn the land and take it by eminent domain.  So long as the government can show a public purpose, which restoration of the Everglades clearly is, this type of action cannot be stopped.  The only issue in court would be the amount of money the government would have to pay.

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