The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday exempted the succulent but misshapen UglyRipe tomato from roundness standards that had prevented its sale outside Florida. The move ends an ugly, three-year-ripe food fight between Plant City grower Santa Sweets and the Florida Tomato Committee, which regulates the Sunshine State's all-important winter tomato crop. (Miami Herald, Thursday)
We don't even have free trade inside the country.
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Regulatory Extortion by Thomas J. DiLorenzo