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In reply to the discussion: Hardship on Mexico's farms, a bounty for U.S. tables [View all]Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)17. I NEVER buy produce from Mexico,
or anywhere else for that matter. I ONLY buy organic California produce. But then again, I'm in the middle of the San Joaquin Valley so it's all around me. The farther away from your home it was grown, the less you know about it and the earlier it had to be picked. It was also probably bred to "ripen" faster which means absolutely NO taste. Anyone who has ever tasted a tomato fresh off the vine vs. a tomato that was grown in Mexico and picked green two weeks ago knows EXACTLY what I'm talking about. One tastes like a tomato the other tastes like cardboard.
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The problem is it's hard to use discretion when you don't know where the products come from
Major Nikon
Dec 2014
#36
That is what has always been true regardless of the border. Bananas are a good example. They used
jwirr
Dec 2014
#2
Obviously the companies won't move to change things. They are getting what they want now.
Judi Lynn
Dec 2014
#29