Why does this country continue to import fruits and vegetables from foreign countries, and poisioning the people in the US? Yet, our farmers are starving and are so regulated about their growing procedures.These foreign countries are not monitored in the growing process.
2007-02-22 05:02:27 · 5 answers · asked by Cheryl 6 in Environment
I would like to know too. They even use experimental pesticides which is the trade off. We can't test those pesticides here they would make us very sick. I live in Miami, not far from Homestead which was one of the top providers of produce for the southeastern US. We have beautiful produce here. They are digging up the Everglades and farmland and replacing it with condos. It is not "cheap affordable housing" so it is not accomplishing anything but putting the farmers out of work and making housing go up. People have to pay more rent or mortgage so they have to buy cheap remaining vegetables or goods - hence the imports. Don't buy a house from a person who strips farmland, don't buy from Walmart, don't buy from a local foreign country. Do buy from your local farmer and shops. Your dollar is a vote - you learned that in high school marketing. Make the efforts to pay attention to your purchases and your votes. Every little bit DOES count and IS better than nothing which is what is what we will get if we don't pay attention. Think about what your dollar does go toward even if you pay a few pennies more. Our prices will go down here when the support here increases.
2007-02-27 10:31:23 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My friend you answered your own question. Sadly American industry has long elected that their primary concern and objective is that eternal search for profit. The fruit and veg companies are well aware that if they use chemical fertilizers, and pesticides with harmful or unknown side effects within America, someone is sure to find out, and seek not only prosecution of the scoundrels, but usually monetary retributions for those harmed. Whereas, by doing the majority of their business outside the USA, they are able to maintain plausible deniability, or the ability to pretend they didn't know it was happening. This even goes so far as to include the creation of company memorandi (written in legalese so indecipherable to the employees in the foreign country that there is no chance of the memorandi being followed) that prohibits the use of the chemicals that in fact they are well aware are being used. In this way it is quite easy to later don the victim costume and receive fat government grants to supposedly clean things up, only to return to their former practices just as soon as no one is looking again.
2007-02-27 10:43:08 · answer #2 · answered by porhtronranie2 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because some of the fruits are seasonal or not grown in our country but the biggest point is that they can be cheaper even with the shipping.
2007-02-22 05:17:13 · answer #3 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The buyers will continue to buy forign imported foods etc, while we continue to buy it. I have started buy local produce when and where ever I can. Which are very nice incidently.
This is my way of cutting down my small amount of the Carbon Footprint we create by importing all the time, mostly by air.
Join me!!!???
2007-02-27 06:22:30 · answer #4 · answered by SUPER-GLITCH 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's called capitalism. Simply put, business goes where labor is cheap - at the cost of any thing.
2007-02-22 05:15:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋