Political Quotes

“This chart illustrates the situation relative to wheat, soybeans and cotton, pertaining to the issue of owner-operated and rented. There are some who do rent. However, in this bill, there are provisions that would do away with some of the public entities who own peanut quota, but to do away with the concept of the right to lease one's land, and criticizing those that do, seems to me that we are losing sight of the overall situation pertaining to widows, children and others who have, over the years, rented their land, or rented their quota. That is a distinction we ought to certainly look at. Now, food safety. We want to show that American peanuts have all sorts of safety tests. There are certain prohibited chemicals that domestic producers cannot use in the production of peanuts. Producers in foreign countries do not have these same restrictions on pesticides that domestic producers must conform with. Today, under GATT, 74 percent of the peanuts allowed into the American edible market come from Argentina. Yet, 50 percent of the peanuts that come in from Argentina cannot pass FDA tests in regards to pesticide residues. They are listed here--I cannot pronounce all of these--including pirimiphos-methyl. And then China--the two leading sources of foreign produced peanuts they are talking about is in Argentina and China--all Chinese peanuts coming into this country contain pesticide residues that have been banned for in this country.”