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However, there is a trend of offshoring even our agricultural industry. Here in the Salinas Valley, the self-proclaimed "Salad Bowl of the World" that made the base of Steinbeck's work, food packing and processing has been offshored to China and South America, with the last 4-5 years seeing the bulk of this taking place.

There are a lot of vacant warehouses just south of Salinas, and many growers have shifted to growing grapes for wine production to replace lost lettuce and vegetable crops.

To be sure, the overall picture is still one of enormous agricultural productivity, but shifts are under way.

And the world will live as one

by Montereyan (robert at calitics dot com) on Wed Jul 28th, 2010 at 03:27:35 PM EST
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food packing and processing has been offshored to China and South America

Does this mean American growers would grow lettuce which would then be shipped to China and South America for packing and processing before being shipped back to the US for consumption?

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jul 28th, 2010 at 03:39:01 PM EST
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See Cantonnery Row by John Steinbeck.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Jul 28th, 2010 at 04:37:29 PM EST
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Does this mean American growers would grow lettuce which would then be shipped to China and South America for packing and processing?

If land in the Salinas Valley is being shifted to wine grapes I would suspect that the growing is being off-shored and coming to the US grown, processed and packaged by cheap labor. Gotta get those last few drops of lifeblood out of the bottom 99% of the US population. Poisoning those that are left is a no charge extra.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Wed Jul 28th, 2010 at 05:40:49 PM EST
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