Government has outdated approach to combat fruit fly spread
Last August, a crew of workers systematically confiscated every orange in a grower's in Valley Center, Calif. They buried the oranges—at least $500,000 worth of fruit in ditches on his neighbor’s property.
They did so by order of the U.S. government, which came accompanied by armed California Highway Patrol officers and which did not pay Bernard a penny for the crops. The
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