WHY CAN'T I PURCHASE ASPARAGUS PRODUCED IN AMERICA?

BLACK BUZZ NEWS SERVICE
Fryeburg, Maine
December 19, 2010
(BBNS)

FRYEBURG..I would like to know why I can't buy or purchase asparagus produced in the United States of America? I shop daily in the Whole Foods Market in Pittsburgh PA, and I haven't been able to get or receive a satisfactory answer as too why I can't purchase American produced asparagus.
I once wrote a term paper in college on how the Black Egyptians and Nubian's cultivated the asparagus which was growing wild along the banks of the famous Nile River.
I was raised on American produced asparagus which is very nutritious that contains Vitamins A, C, B6, folic acid, potassium and thiamine.
My grandmother used to grow asparagus on the sandy land that she owned in Cape May New Jersey, which was about a mile from the Atlantic Ocean.
What has happen to U.S. asparagus production? I know for a fact that the states of New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Washington state use to supply the American consumer with the best grown asparagus in the world.
I am also cognizant of the fact that the U.S. government signed a bogus drug control policy called The Andean Trade Preference Act of 1990.
The so-called intent with this fraudulent act was to give affirmative action preferences to the Andean drug trafficking countries and to give them incentives to grow crops other than those that produce drugs.
One of the crops that U.S. targeted was asparagus. The U.S was trying to get the Peruvians and Ecuadorians to grow asparagus and thus they would stop growing coca leaf and poppies. In the years since this horrible Un-American policy went into effect these preferences the U.S government gave the Peruvians and Ecuadorians has decimated and practically destroyed the U.S. domestic asparagus industry. Now the Peruvians, Ecuadorians and Mexicans export more asparagus to the good old USA than our country produces.

I would like to give thanks to President George Herbert Walker Bush and the deceitful United States Congress and poorly corrupt run USDA for causing the destruction of U.S. asparagus production.

The American asparagus growers are receiving inadequate compensation by the the U.S. government via the USDA in return for what the U.S. government did to the entire asparagus industry.
According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the U.S. government has spent more than $ 46.8 billion on the misleading "War on Drugs" so far this year. And we still have more people addicted to coke, crack, smack, pot, meth, X, and Purple Drank than all the rest of the world combined. The U.S. War on drugs is a joke.
The buffoons that the gullible U.S. public elected to run our affairs of state gave Carte-Blanche for them to subsidize Peruvian coca leaf farmers at the expense of the hard working American farmers who are greatest crop producers in the world.
When and where did the Congress hold hearings on the Andean Trade Preferences Act?

Why can't the Whole Foods Market, Food Lion, Giant, Harris Teeter, Giant Eagle, Shop & Save, Stop & Shop, A & P, Kroger, Foodland, The Community Market,
Martinsfoods, Ukrop, Independent Food Stores, Organic Food Stores give incentives to local American farmers to grow asparagus?

* I will continue to boycott foreign grown asparagus.

* My investigation of why I can't buy American home grown asparagus has revealed the following.
That Sheppard Farms Produces asparagus in Cumberland County in New Jersey, and they supply the Whole Foods Market with fresh grown asparagus in the early spring and summer months. That the state of New Jersey is the fourth largest asparagus producer in the country and every stalk is picked by hand. The people picking the asparagus are probably illegal immigrants. That American asparagus growers only supply roughly 29 per cent of all the market.
I subsequently called Whole Foods Market in Pittsburgh and expressed how I felt about eating asparagus from Peru and Mexico. According to the produce manager at Whole Foods they have to but their products out based upon availability and location. The produce manager also stated that they buy their asparagus from the Sheppard Farms Produce in New Jersey but that was only for a few months in the spring and summer months. I suggested that they check out growers in California and Texas and the manager said that he would pass my requests to one of his VP's. I told the produce manager that I would be calling back to check on the status of my requests.

These bogus one-sided Free Trade Agreement are going to kill the American consumer and American small business's.
These one per center's don't provide any American jobs. They are now starting to farm out our food supply, and jobs to other nations.
Thanks Mr. Obama for giving the tax breaks to the one per centers who will now take more jobs overseas.
The American public is brain dead.