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tepetapan
Oct 31, 2015Explorer
navegator wrote:
Some of those restrictions are actually there to prevent infestations and plagues to migrate.
The best example.
Person smuggled oranges from Mexico to Southern California, some of this fruit had the larva of the fruit fly and the orange industry in California took one hell of a hit, for years we had aircraft flying in patterns releasing sterile male fruit flies, the millions of dollars that the economy and the eradication program is costing, all because one person did not heed a simple rule and a lot of persons have to pay for this, it has been years and this program of fruit fly eradication is still going on.
navegator
I have, for may be two decades, found these excuses rather bizarre. Fruit flies fly, no passport needed. For government to claim they migrated by smuggling is giving them way too much credit. Way too much. Same with the avocado restrictions. Pure protectionism and propaganda.
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