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[quote=”sprite”]I don’t know if this anecdote is significant or even news, but the wife and I were shopping at the farmer’s market in Atenas a few weeks ago and I noticed among all the beautiful, fresh local produce on display, strands of wrapped garlic with country of origin markings of “China.” The vendor explained it is cheaper to pay the import prices than to grow it. I wouldnt be surprised to see this in a super market, but at a farmer’s market?!!![/quote]
The supermarkets are already flooded with Chinese products in CR. And keep in mind that with all the unsafe Chinese products that managed to make it to market in the US before being identified and recalled even with the current regulations and FDA oversight… I’d be VERY concerned with what might be slipping by the regulators watching imports in CR.
China doesn’t want conquests… it want consumers.
[quote=”sprite”]I don’t know if this anecdote is significant or even news, but the wife and I were shopping at the farmer’s market in Atenas a few weeks ago and I noticed among all the beautiful, fresh local produce on display, strands of wrapped garlic with country of origin markings of “China.” The vendor explained it is cheaper to pay the import prices than to grow it. I wouldnt be surprised to see this in a super market, but at a farmer’s market?!!![/quote]
Sprite
this is interesting!!!! how can importing a vegetable actually be cheaper than growing it here????
Sprite
have to agree 100% with you on this.. I would NEVER EAT anything imported from China..
if you go to stores like pequeno mundo.. you will see lots of cheap Chinese products.. and people just go on and buy them and consume them..
crazy
[quote=”Imxploring”][quote=”sprite”]I don’t know if this anecdote is significant or even news, but the wife and I were shopping at the farmer’s market in Atenas a few weeks ago and I noticed among all the beautiful, fresh local produce on display, strands of wrapped garlic with country of origin markings of “China.” The vendor explained it is cheaper to pay the import prices than to grow it. I wouldnt be surprised to see this in a super market, but at a farmer’s market?!!![/quote]
The supermarkets are already flooded with Chinese products in CR. And keep in mind that with all the unsafe Chinese products that managed to make it to market in the US before being identified and recalled even with the current regulations and FDA oversight… I’d be VERY concerned with what might be slipping by the regulators watching imports in CR.
China doesn’t want conquests… it want consumers.[/quote]
[quote=”sweikert925″]But not all subjects of disagreement fit into this category. When basic questions of right and wrong are involved, then there IS a right and wrong answer. It is never right to look down on, hate or otherwise denigrate others based purely on race, nationality or religion.
Every person, no matter what ethnic, religious or racial group they belong to, has the right to be judged individually. There are selfish, greedy, evil, foolish Jews – but there are also kind, altruistic, good and wise Jews. Substitute “Costan Ricans”, “Georgians”, “Floridians”, “Scotsmen”, “New Yorkers” or “Chicagoans” for “Jews” and that previous sentence is just as true.
(I posted this as a separate comment because I wanted to make it clear that it wasn’t specifically directed at sprite.)[/quote]
Sweikert925: Curious why you chose to use “Jews” in your primary example instead of some other religious, ethnic, cultural, national or geographical group …
Let’s make this very simple..because it IS simple;
People are actually more trustworthy, honest and good than we are taught to believe. Sure, the world contains broken people who do harm to others. But the over all population is made up of good people. If it were not, no amount of police and armies and governments could make it work at all. In fact, it doesn;t work that well now BECAUSE of governments and their armed enforcement goons.We are indoctrinated to distrust each other so that we can be sold the idea that we need the State to look out for us. The mafia uses the same play to sell protection. But the protection we need is from them not from each other.
Look at Costa Rica; NO ARMY. There is a small police force but my experience with CR police is that they remind me of what we used to have in the US when I was a kid…peace officers…not law enforcement officers. Say what you will about Tico inefficiency and state corruption, it is NOTHING compared to the scale of what we know exists in governments of other countries.
Try and remember your first experiences as a tourist in Costa Rica. What did you think of the absence of police uniforms? Did the lack of a need for police it make you nervous or did it make you feel relieved?
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”pixframe”]Sweikert925: Curious why you chose to use “Jews” in your primary example instead of some other religious, ethnic, cultural, national or geographical group …[/quote]
I thought that would be obvious: because several of the regulars who post here seem to have a problem with Jews, something I find rather repugnant.[/quote]
Your entire lesson/example doesn’t have anything to do with this thread. It really came out of the far left field. To express this repugnance of yours … how about if/when you have a son, don’t invite them to his bar mitzvah?
[quote=”sweikert925″][quote=”pixframe”] To express this repugnance of yours … how about if/when you have a son, don’t invite them to his bar mitzvah?[/quote]
If I did have a son no one would get invited to his bar mitzvah because he wouldn’t have a bar mitzvah. I’m not Jewish.If you think it is adequate to fight bigotry by not inviting bigots to your parties, then that’s something else we disagree about.[/quote]
STOP FEEDING QUARTERS INTO THE MACHINE
[quote=”davidd”][quote=”sprite”]I don’t know if this anecdote is significant or even news, but the wife and I were shopping at the farmer’s market in Atenas a few weeks ago and I noticed among all the beautiful, fresh local produce on display, strands of wrapped garlic with country of origin markings of “China.” The vendor explained it is cheaper to pay the import prices than to grow it. I wouldnt be surprised to see this in a super market, but at a farmer’s market?!!![/quote]
Sprite
this is interesting!!!! how can importing a vegetable actually be cheaper than growing it here????
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As far as I know Costa Rica is simply not capable of subsidizing a variety of foodstuffs as they do in the U.S. and in the European Union so the reality is that these prices are artificially low.
A subsidy paid by the EU to dairy farmers is part of a Europe-wide initiative called the Common Agriculture Policy to provide farmers with a reasonable standard of living, consumers with quality food at fair prices and to preserve rural heritage.
I’m assuming that this is why my favourite goat and blue cheeses comes from Denmark and are priced lower than the locally made cheeses.
Dr. Mercola wrote about this at: [url=http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/08/03/the-9-foods-the-us-government-is-paying-you-to-eat.aspx]The 9 Foods the U.S. Government is Paying You to Eat[/url]
Corn
Wheat
Soybeans
Rice
Beer
Milk
Beef
Peanut Butter
Sunflower OilAnd of course who can compete with Chinese labour costs? We certainly can not ….
Does that make sense?
Scott
mate thanks for that explanation.. always enjoy hearing all sides..
I never even thought about subsidies being a culprit for these lower imported prices..
[quote=”Scott”][quote=”davidd”][quote=”sprite”]I don’t know if this anecdote is significant or even news, but the wife and I were shopping at the farmer’s market in Atenas a few weeks ago and I noticed among all the beautiful, fresh local produce on display, strands of wrapped garlic with country of origin markings of “China.” The vendor explained it is cheaper to pay the import prices than to grow it. I wouldnt be surprised to see this in a super market, but at a farmer’s market?!!![/quote]
Sprite
this is interesting!!!! how can importing a vegetable actually be cheaper than growing it here????
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As far as I know Costa Rica is simply not capable of subsidizing a variety of foodstuffs as they do in the U.S. and in the European Union so the reality is that these prices are artificially low.
A subsidy paid by the EU to dairy farmers is part of a Europe-wide initiative called the Common Agriculture Policy to provide farmers with a reasonable standard of living, consumers with quality food at fair prices and to preserve rural heritage.
I’m assuming that this is why my favourite goat and blue cheeses comes from Denmark and are priced lower than the locally made cheeses.
Dr. Mercola wrote about this at: [url=http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/08/03/the-9-foods-the-us-government-is-paying-you-to-eat.aspx]The 9 Foods the U.S. Government is Paying You to Eat[/url]
Corn
Wheat
Soybeans
Rice
Beer
Milk
Beef
Peanut Butter
Sunflower OilAnd of course who can compete with Chinese labour costs? We certainly can not ….
Does that make sense?[/quote]
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