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Default Would you buy produce from Mexico?


"Evelyn" > wrote in message
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> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>>I try to buy organic and local when I can. Obviously bananas do not grow
>>here and for some reason our grapes are mostly from Mexico. I've seen
>>oranges from Australia.
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>> Because the other two who live here are going camping this week, I opted
>> not to buy a box of produce. But they need to bring a lunch with them.
>> So I decided to get tomatoes and lettuce to put on the sandwiches.
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>> The only organic tomatoes this store had were from Mexico. I sort of
>> thought twice before buying them because of this swine flu thing, but
>> bought them anyway.
>>
>> But then someone I was talking to online freaked when I told him and said
>> he thought I shouldn't eat them.
>>
>> Would you buy them? Would you eat them?

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> Of course I would eat them. I would wash them on the outside first,
> though, like usual. That's not how swine flu is spread, from produce.
> It is spread from people coughing in the air.


Okay. Thanks!