Showing posts with label NAFTA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NAFTA. Show all posts

Monday, February 4, 2013

The Green Meanies cut a deal with Mexico

You remember the Florida Green Meanies.  Used to come four to the cellopak, hard as rocks and about as tasteless.  NAFTA opened up the border to much better Mexican tomatoes, bright red, vine ripened, tasting like tomatoes even in February.  Grocery shoppers know the difference and overwhelmngly support good tomatoes from Mexico.
   Florida tomato growers lobbied for a new "tomato deal" with Mexico.  In return for continued imports of Mexican tomatoes, the Mexican agreed to raise prices on Americans, to keep the Florida Green Meanies in business.