HONDURAS fights U.S. ban on its cantaloupes - (The New York Times)
March 26, 2008 – 9:07 pmhttp://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/honduras-fights-us-ban-on-its-cantaloupes/index.html?hp
Adding his own twist to the Latin American strongman railing against American policies, President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras began talking to journalists on Tuesday. Here I have the box of melons, he said, according to CNN. Permit me to make a demonstration.
He cut open the fruit, sliced off a chunk, put it in his mouth and chewed vigorously, CNN continued, and then unleashed his fiery anti-American punchline:
I eat this fruit without any fear, he said with his mouth full. Its a delicious fruit. Nothing happens to me!
To sharpen the F.D.R. echo in other words: the only fruit to fear is fear itself.
The Food and Drug Administration strongly disagrees. On Saturday, it issued an urgent recall of cantaloupes from Agropecuaria Montelibano, a grower in Honduras that sends more than 2 million boxes to the U.S. each year:
Based on current information, fruit from this company appears to be associated with a Salmonella […]
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