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Import-Export Business
How globalization is smothering U.S. fruit and vegetable farms |
Tom Philpott |
30 Aug 2007 |
Victual Reality |
| Earlier this month, President Bush roiled U.S. vegetable farmers by announcing a crackdown on undocumented workers. Last week, industrial-meat giant Smithfield Foods goosed the hog-futures market by inking a deal to export 60 million pounds of U.S.-grown pork to China. These events, unrelated though they seem, illustrate a common point: that despite all the recent fuss around loc ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, business, food, international politics, Victual Reality (all these topics) |
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