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No more Rose Bowl Parade?
From the Human Flower Project:
With the influx of cheap flowers, chain groceries have put thousands of independent U.S. florists out of business, and thousands of growers in the U.S. have given up flower farming. Also, just this month Human Rights Watch and the AFL/CIO, among others, have lodged objections to the AFTA over working conditions in Ecuador. …Santa Cruz County, California, was a center for rose production as recently as 20 years ago. Now “there are fewer than a dozen rose growers left.”
Think about this the next time you stop in and buy flowers at Speedway. Is this more of the high cost of low price?
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