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Strategies & Market Trends : Bob Brinker: Market Savant & Radio Host -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Whirlwind who wrote (4953)	5/13/1998 12:25:00 PM
From: Trebor	Respond to of 42834

>Our farmers would be shut down if they did what's being done south of the border.< You have put your finger on the crux of the problem. For years, growers in the U.S. have had to deal with environmental laws and pesticide rules and regs far more stringent than those in most other nations. This raises their cost of production (and your grocery bill) and is sending much of our food production south of the border. I'm not saying we don't need rules and regs, just that they are often self-defeating if all we're doing is shifting production elsewhere. Add to that the fact that we keep planting houses and shopping malls where we should be planting crops, and you see the alarming prospect that the U.S. is jeopardizing its #1 balance-of-trade industry, agriculture, and could lose it's ability to feed itself.