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Before You Enjoy Those Roses…

Friday, February 14th, 2003

…the NY Times would like to make you feel guilty. Seems that prime Ecuadoran roses are making Ecuadoran rose farm workers sick. Europe, of course, is furious. But then, given Europe’s ridiculous farm subsidies and trade protections, I doubt many Ecuadoran roses find their way to Europe, anyway.

There is a solution of course. We could try to engineer roses big and beautiful as Ecuadoran roses, but which emit their own pest repellent, thus making the wheeze-inducing insecticides used in Ecuador unnecessary.

Ah…but Europe doesn’t like that idea, either. Guess the only thing for the sophisticated, worldly, sensitive gentleman to do is opt for daisies.

Apparently, some women prefer those, anyway.

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