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andsoitisyesterday at 7:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

> There are factories in Latin America already set up to do so at large scale, all it would take is a contract with the USDA to guarantee enough supply for the states.

According to the article the cases are in Mexico, so I don’t know that “Latin American origin” is a silver bullet.


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bastawhizyesterday at 7:34 PM

Why wouldn't the USDA pay to eliminate pests in another country if it meant preventing those pests from reaching US farmers?

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slicktuxyesterday at 7:32 PM

Mexico is just a small portion of Latin America; A few places I can think of is Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil which have huge stockyards…