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Jim Costa: I think that is an irony because when you are producing half the nation's fruits and vegetables yet to be qualified a…

On the recordJune 23, 2011
I think that is an irony because when you are producing half the nation's fruits and vegetables yet to be qualified a food desert.
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Jim Costa
Democratic · California

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Costa highlights the contradiction of food deserts existing in a productive agricultural region.

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