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  • U.S. asparagus is victim of the war on drugs

    04/28/2004 10:57:03 AM PDT · by The kings dead · 31 replies · 322+ views
    Lexington Herald-Leader (KY) ^ | Apr. 26, 2004 | Timothy Egan
    TOPPENISH, Wash. - After 55 years of packing Eastern Washington asparagus, the Del Monte Foods factory here moved operations to Peru last year, eliminating 365 jobs. The company said it could get asparagus cheaper and year-round there. As the global economy churns, nearly every sector has a story about U.S. jobs landing on cheaper shores. But what happened to the U.S. asparagus industry is rare, the farmers here say, because it became a casualty of the government's war on drugs. To reduce the flow of cocaine into the United States by encouraging farmers in Peru to grow food instead of...