Like many of my posts, this one could fall under a few different categories, but this one seems most appropriate.
So I am at the supermarket this morning doing the weekly shopping. I am in the produce aisle looking at packaged salads, specialty baby greens, as well red bell peppers and grapes.
The peppers were from Mexico.
The bagged salads and greens were produced in the US and Mexico.
So were the grapes…oh wait, they were from Chile, but I have seen them in other weeks from Mexico. Not much of a surprise since grapes are not in season here but are now in the southern hemisphere since it is early fall there.
This situation where fresh produce in the stores is from almost anywhere but here is not a new phenomenon. I have noticed it for years. But today it made wonder whatever happened to our bountiful fresh produce supplies from California (drought issues aside)?
Don’t we bring in migrant workers from Mexico to pick our crops? Where does that produce go? I am having a hard time remembering when I last saw produce labeled as being from California. Are there American migrant workers in Mexico picking all of this Mexican produce I see stocked in the supermarket? I certainly hope so! That must be one of the many reciprocal benefits of NAFTA.
I passed on all of it given the numerous food contamination issues that have been cropping up in the news on a regular basis. Guess where that food comes from or who is picking it?
Not only are we importing produce, we are importing disease. Our benevolent Community Organizer-in-Chief has been importing who-knows-how-many from who-knows-where, carrying who-knows-what, and spreading them all over the country. Old diseases like tuberculosis are on the rise again. And now we have new diseases like SARS, a set of diseases with potentially fatal consequences and no specific diagnostic tests.
And of course, the aforementioned food-born diseases resulting from third-world agricultural methods and sanitation.
The idiocy boggles the mind. So does the lack of public outrage. But why should I expect anything different: Tomorrow is the beginning of the all-important “Final Four!” Where are my priorities? Sorry…disregard this post. Bad timing…
But before you do, consider this: Speaking of “final fours”…The first and/or the fourth members of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have been widely interpreted as being related to pestilence, disease and plague.
Enjoy the games. Have a nice salad with those hot wings.
a new take on the “Final Four”, contamination, NAFTA, obamonation, politically-induced diarrhea
