[Really OT]Peperoni and Citrus

From: "Brian Burger" <yh728@victoria.tc.ca>

> I figure the California citrus thing for a scam, anyway. The first

Funnily enough... we have similar internal quarantine stations around our
fruit-growing areas too. It's to stop the spread of Fruit-Fly, which is
endemic in the local ecology, but which *can* be eradicated in limited areas,
with much effort.

Another major quarantine pest in Victoria is various vine diseases being kept
out of the grape regions; considering the winery I visit most often has the
oldest vines in the world (1860) and most of the rest were planted in the
1920s (without the hybrid disease resistant root stock used in most places
these days).

Brendan 'Neath Southern Skies

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If that the "Med" Fruit -Fly (I think, some such name anyway) then it
gave agriculture types in California a scare at the time as big as SARS did to
Singapore recently. I remember some cities started spraying 'just in case'
until voters said essentially "Just how toxic is that bug spray?" Not that
spraying is bad, we spray in St.Louis for some mosquito borne via birds
disease (to misquote Mulan," It has a name...
and it's a name i should remember...") for good cause - it's killed
people. But toxic spraying for a fruit crop even in Califonia is a stretch

Gracias,

Glenn

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:13:25 +1100 "Alan and Carmel Brain"
> <aebrain@webone.com.au> writes: