As if the cost of living isn’t bad enough in this rotten economy, the Obama administration has decided to send the price of fresh tomatoes skyrocketing. According to the Wall Street Journal, the administration has decided to take the side of Florida growers (no doubt Obama donors) who don’t want any competition from south of the border. Don’t get me wrong, whenever possible, I buy USA grown tomatoes, one of my younger son’s favorites. But if imports from Mexico are all that’s available that’s what I’ll buy. Either way, it’s going to be a lot more expensive.

The deal updates a 16-year-old agreement and raises prices on Mexican tomato imports “substantially, in some cases more than double,” as Commerce Under Secretary for International Trade Francisco Sánchez put it, approvingly. The Cato Institute’s Daniel Ikenson estimates that winter tomato prices could rise from 41% to 168%, and summer prices 47% to 176%. Specialty tomatoes, such as grape, cherry or heirloom varieties, will see the biggest increases.

So why would Mexico agree to this, given that its tomato industry employs some 350,000 in some of the poorest parts of the country, while generating $1.8 billion in trade in 2011? Answer: Mr. Sánchez used U.S. trade law as a cudgel.

Read the whole thing. Michelle Obama is all for our kids eating fresh fruits and vegetables every day, but her husband’s bureaucrats are making those fresh veggies harder to obtain for middle class and poor Americans living in northern states where we can’t grow our own in the winter.

Read more:http://lonelyconservative.com/2013/02/ob...Conservative%29

I always grow my own tomatoes in the spring & summer. Maybe I'll check out ways to freeze some of them for winter.

Okay now, wait a sec. How does this happen with Gestapo Michelle always telling us what we may eat, and banning anything and everything un-healthy? Now they're going to cause 'healthy' foods like fresh tomatoes to sky rocket in price???? Only in Obamaland.

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Okay now, wait a sec. How does this happen with Gestapo Michelle always telling us what we may eat, and banning anything and everything un-healthy? Now they're going to cause 'healthy' foods like fresh tomatoes to sky rocket in price???? Only in Obamaland.

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Tomatoes are pretty easy to grow. Heck I just found out you don't even have to plant them.



http://www.cookingwithmykid.com/meatless...ag-of-tomatoes/

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Tomatoes are pretty easy to grow. Heck I just found out you don't even have to plant them.

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I don't buy tomatoes from Mexico. If they don't have American-grown ones, I wait until they do. And, I do grow my own in the summertime, too.

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I always grow my own tomatoes in the spring & summer. Maybe I'll check out ways to freeze some of them for winter.

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I always grow my own tomatoes in the spring & summer. Maybe I'll check out ways to freeze some of them for winter.

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Tomatoes are pretty easy to grow. Heck I just found out you don't even have to plant them.

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That is until our control freak government decides to legislate laws making it illegal to grow your own tomatoes, which results in forcing you to either not eat them or end up paying exorbitant prices so their cronies get rich.

But then again, maybe that's the end-goal.

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Nifty Food & Plants To Grow Indoors {May Surprise You}

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http://www.rights-right.com/t246f32-Nifty-Food-amp-Plants-To-Grow-Indoors-May-Surprise-You.html#msg15865

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Tomatoes are pretty easy to grow. Heck I just found out you don't even have to plant them.



http://www.cookingwithmykid.com/meatless...ag-of-tomatoes/

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Tomatoes are pretty easy to grow. Heck I just found out you don't even have to plant them.



http://www.cookingwithmykid.com/meatless...ag-of-tomatoes/

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Can't use that technique in the Texas Hill Country. The heat stresses the plants too much and they won't produce.

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