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Bernie Sanders: “I know what a tomato looks like, too, but you don't know what kind of pesticide was used or how that tomato was grown.…”

On the recordDecember 6, 2016
I know what a tomato looks like, too, but you don't know what kind of pesticide was used or how that tomato was grown. The idea that we cannot get a product from across the border safely really doesn't pass the laugh test, frankly. This is one of the things the pharmaceutical industry has been pushing. We have unfettered free trade for fish, for vegetables, for meat from all over the world, but somehow, from Canada or the UK or France--we cannot safely bring medicine into this country at a fraction of the price our pharmacists are now paying. Frankly, I would say to the Senator from Missouri, that does not pass the laugh test, and I hope we can work together. Clearly, we want the medicine to come in safely, but I think we can do that, and I look forward to doing that. I yield.
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont
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Dec 6, 2016

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