On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:10:25 -0400, "Steve Freides" >
wrote:

>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-
>
Right. Look up Calavo- the California Avocado PAC. They seemed to be
worried about fruit flies from Hawaii originally, but imho, they are
worried about their large acreage of Haas avocados. Plenty of money
invested by Calavo.

aloha,
Cea