Comments on: NAFTA 20 Years After: Florida’s Tomato Growers Struggling http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/nafta-20-years-after-floridas-tomato-growers-struggling/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nafta-20-years-after-floridas-tomato-growers-struggling Global Perspectives for an American Audience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Jason Margolis http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/nafta-20-years-after-floridas-tomato-growers-struggling/comment-page-1/#comment-27817 Jason Margolis Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:52:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=152177#comment-27817 This trade issue has some resolution now with a tentative agreement: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/business/united-states-and-mexico-reach-deal-on-tomato-imports.html This trade issue has some resolution now with a tentative agreement: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/business/united-states-and-mexico-reach-deal-on-tomato-imports.html

]]> By: csummers1 http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/nafta-20-years-after-floridas-tomato-growers-struggling/comment-page-1/#comment-26914 csummers1 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:25:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=152177#comment-26914 I don't buy any tomatoes other than from a farmers market. All shipped tomatoes are next to awful. You also failed to make any mention of the tomatoes form ontario canada and the impact they have as well.  chris I don’t buy any tomatoes other than from a farmers market. All shipped tomatoes are next to awful. You also failed to make any mention of the tomatoes form ontario canada and the impact they have as well. 

chris

]]> By: Tomasina Covell http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/nafta-20-years-after-floridas-tomato-growers-struggling/comment-page-1/#comment-26901 Tomasina Covell Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:37:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=152177#comment-26901  Thank you!  But PRI's TW couldn't even breath that much, what a waste of electrical power, and I'll bet they all have college degrees too!  Thank you!  But PRI’s TW couldn’t even breath that much, what a waste of electrical power, and I’ll bet they all have college degrees too!

]]> By: Tomasina Covell http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/nafta-20-years-after-floridas-tomato-growers-struggling/comment-page-1/#comment-26900 Tomasina Covell Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:35:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=152177#comment-26900 Thanks for nothing PRI!  I can't tell a thing from this segment, there's not fact checking of the possitions for a determination of who's side is being truthful and who's just a malignant right wing lobbyist for their fiefdom, not even an analysis of hydrology!  Any impotent issue just gets the n-p-r vapid treatment, I don't which is worse FOX or PRI, there's even more lies by omission just like the truth behind the wallstreet crash et al, they could have had the real critics on for that too but NOOOOOO! Thanks for nothing PRI!  I can’t tell a thing from this segment, there’s not fact checking of the possitions for a determination of who’s side is being truthful and who’s just a malignant right wing lobbyist for their fiefdom, not even an analysis of hydrology!  Any impotent issue just gets the n-p-r vapid treatment, I don’t which is worse FOX or PRI, there’s even more lies by omission just like the truth behind the wallstreet crash et al, they could have had the real critics on for that too but NOOOOOO!

]]> By: rakedon1 http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/nafta-20-years-after-floridas-tomato-growers-struggling/comment-page-1/#comment-26899 rakedon1 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 22:57:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=152177#comment-26899 Florida is one of the worst places to grow tomatoes and they probably shouldn't be grown there.  They need lots of chemicals because the soil is too sandy and the climate is too humid.  The book Tomatoland discusses this in detail. Florida is one of the worst places to grow tomatoes and they probably shouldn’t be grown there.  They need lots of chemicals because the soil is too sandy and the climate is too humid.  The book Tomatoland discusses this in detail.

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