pure kona wrote:
> There is hope. Found this today in the Hawaii news
> aloha,
> Cea
>
>> By OSKAR GARCIA
>> Associated Press
>>
>> HONOLULU (AP) - Guacamole connoisseurs around the U.S. will soon
>> have a new domestic avocado to try - not from California or Florida,
>> but Hawaii.
>>
>> The U.S. Department of Agriculture is changing its rules for Hawaii
>> growers to allow them to ship Sharwil avocados to 32 mainland U.S.
>> states between November and March.
>>
>> According to a USDA rule scheduled to be published in the Federal
>> Register on Thursday, the shipments will help give shoppers an
>> option to buy domestic avocados during winter months, when most
>> grocery stores stock avocados from Mexico instead.
>>
>> President Tom Benton of the Hawaii Avocado Association says growers
>> mostly on the Big Island and Maui produce roughly 1 million pounds
>> of the fruit each year, but until now have only been able to sell
>> within the state.
>>
>> Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

Forgive my ignorance, but why would the USDA ever _not_ allow Hawaiian
avocados to be sold on the mainland? What happened to free commerce and
all that? It's not like they're even another country.

-S-