Reply to: A New Leaf: Tax Law Change Would Be Boost for
Citrus Growers By Kevin Bouffard
THE LEDGER Published: Tuesday,
March 24, 2015 at 11:34 p.m.
Have Floridian
leaders lost their mind?
According to Adam Putnam,
Florida will lose all of its citrus crops in less than 10 years; why – because
of failed leadership and poor policy by Adam Putnam, Gov Scott and Marco Rubio,
and all those who continue to embrace the smallest subset of scientists who
think re-engineering nature is the way to go.
Brief
History of Citrus Greening:
· 1919
- first discovered in China
· 1956
- Lin Kung Hsiang (researcher from China) concluded that greening is a graft
transmissible infectious disease, NOT related to physiological disorders (e.g.
nutrient deficiencies, water logging, etc.) or soil borne diseases (e.g.
phytophthora, etc.)
·
2005 - Citrus greening was first confirmed in south Miami-Dade
county
·
2015 - Gov Scott, the GOP and DEMS in Tallahassee are giving tax
breaks to the very folks and corporations who have unleashed this disease on
our soil, in effort to continue to allow these grafted trees and Genetically
Modified trees to flourish in Florida. Farmers have stated that they now
have to re-plant trees annually in effort to combat citrus greening. Why do we
allow this bad policy to continue?
The solution, according to
Gov Scott and Adam Putnam, is too throw more of our money at their bad policy
in effort to prop up a failing industry – an industry known to fail due to bad
agricultural policy – I guess you just can’t fix stupid.
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