On the recordOctober 4, 2001
I have met them. I have walked on their land. I have heard their problems. For us to trade away their jobs to a Third World country that uses labor practices that have been banned here for a century, chemicals that have been banned here for decades, to put on our food to ship to our children and our public at the expense of our industry and our jobs is obscene. There has been a lot made of the environmental impacts. I know an awful lot about that. I helped write the Everglades restudy bill in the Florida legislature. The Florida sugar industry has reduced their pollutants by 73 percent, three times what the law asked them to do, and ahead of schedule.
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