In Saturday's Star Tribune business section there was as story about how Mexico and the United States are spating over tomoatoes. The mile high view is - in 11 years the fresh tomato production in Mexico has grown from $412 million to $1.81 billion and American farmers want a bigger piece of this pie.
I will bring the article with to class on Tuesday.
While reading the article I moved back and forth between whose side I was on. I support the American farmers but I also support the Mexico farmers as the quality can at times be better and we know the price is better. If the American farmers win the cost will increase significantly for the consumer and the wealth will increase in the pockets of the big American tomoato growers. I do know that I really do not want the price to increase significantly for tomoates. I thought with Tuesday's topic being about Tommy Tomato we could discuss this as well.
The article also hints that if this goes thru that there maybe retaliation in other area of imports on the Mexico side. The products the US currently exports to them could drop causing an econmic domino effect here which again effects the consumer not the company that makes it.
Here is the link to the article.
http://www.startribune.com/business/172916331.html
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