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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (2141)	11/16/2005 2:28:32 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 220190

GB, Blame agriculture subsidies. I watched the containers being loaded with cut flowers in S. Paulo state. From there they truck it to a KLM flight. Next morning the flowers were in the market in Holland. There's no reason why fruits should not be cultivated in the Caribbean and flown overnight to N. America. But they want the bad stuff. It is not good, but it is planted here. You take off from Schipol airport in Holland and the night is lit with green houses. They cultivate the plants like is a spacecraft hea dto Mars. They transform their herbivores animals in carnivores by feed them with ground up carcasses of dead animals. They make sugar out of beets instaed of sugar cane. The sugar from sugar cane is better.

To: Gib Bogle who wrote (2141)	11/16/2005 4:21:15 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 220190

Gib, where are the good Brazil nuts? I phoned my cousin, a retired fruit grower, to see what's up with the nectarines. He said it's just typical New Zealand fruit management and USA imports. It's all about price, size, shape and colour. If it looks good, the quality doesn't matter [they say]. Most consumers just go for cheap, big, and colourful. I might have to migrate to France once a year to get decent nectarines in season. The weather is better then too. Mqurice