Posted on 01/14/2014 2:01:44 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
I remember as a kid long ago, we were crossing the Canada border. We had a bunch of peaches & tomatoes which were not allowed to cross. We were all furiously eating them as we rolled up to the border guard. He laughed. We wound up handing him a bag of delicious fruit.
Careful now...FR has just as many anti-GMO nuts as any left wing site. It seems to be the only topic where DU threads are almost identical to FR threads.
“Thank Nixon.”
It is not so much about China and Nixon as it is about modern mass production of agricultural products.
Today, every orange must look the same and taste the same or the consumer won’t buy it.
That means tens of thousands of acres of identical plants.
There is always something those plants are susceptible to and when one gets sick, they all get sick.
Omg! Another certain calamity! Doom is upon us! Whatever will we do????
Wait ... I’m sure that the cure for this latest catastrophe is a bunch of money. Some kinda government handout or subsidy or program or something. Right?
I’m sure we’ll see plenty of isolationist anti-trade posts blaming interaction with China for this pest. I wonder if any of the posters realize that oranges are not native to the west, and are thought to have originated in China.
With 340 million people in the US, I'll hazard inbreeding, thank you.
The Bible was written from a tribal mentality. Name one agro-urban society on earth that lasted half as long as the Magyars, the Mongols, the Innuit, the Lapps, the Maasai, the Bushmen, the Australian Aborigines... We just got our asses kicked by tribal societies.
I know that the number of juice processing plants, in the state, have been reduced, dramatically, in number, over the past few years. Complaint for many years has been, there’s not enough fruit to keep all these plants running to the max and profitable. Now this, along with greening, different viruses that have cropped up, is reducing the quantity and quality of both, the groves and the fruit. What a shame!
What most folks don't know, is that the citrus industry, in Florida, is run by Brazil and Brazilians and run Brazilian concentrate, mixed with the American juice. Few citrus processors are American.
Is there anything Americans do any more - besides collect unemployment and welfare?
I’m sure that the border guards collect a lot of fruit. I’ve turned over a lot ,yself over the years. That is why I was surprised to see this lady carrying a live, rooted plant off the plane and nobody stopping her.
Ddt doesn’t work fpr bacteria and viruses. Farmers who fail to rotate crops will run in to disease eventually. Citrus is particularly tricky.
I am all for DDT. That stupid “silent spring” book by Rachel Carsen is directly responsoble for millions of Malaria death.
All citrus is susceptible to this infection, so having one variety is not the issue. I don’t really understand how crops can be rotated in an orchard. Prior to this disease, citrus trees were expected to produce for a number of years!
Not only that, but any particular variety of citrus is a cutting or a clone from a single tree. There's no genetic diversity.
Ddt doesn’t work fpr bacteria and viruses.
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It’ll get the bugs that transmit it though...
The diseased trees would have to be destroyed.
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