So, it has been awhile since I've been on this thing; stuff gets in the way. All that matters is that I'm back on this and ready to talk more about problems.
Today though, I would like to talk about something that happened in my life resently. I was in class, like any other normal day, sitting in my desk and learning. Across from me a few kids where having a conversation about school lunches (a very common topic around or after lunchtime). Now, I am not sure exactly what was said during the conversation, but there is only one statement I overheard that is of real importance in this blog at the moment. The statement went something like this: "Why can't we have tomatos from Alabama?"
That statement sparked a memory in my head of an incident similar to the one happening before me. It was at a local wal-mart, and I was shopping with my mom for groceries. We were in the section where the vegatables and fruits were, and my mom picks up a tomato. She looks at it and realizes that it isn't ripe. She looks over it more closely, and she finds that the tomato wasn't even from Alabama; it was from Canada.
Now, I know I'm not the only one who sees a problem here. We have an agricultural state, with averagely all around good weather. Aside from the humidity, this is basically a true statement. Yet here we are, in a grocery store, in Alabama, with Canadian tomatos.
I don't know what the problem is. I suppose if I did I wouldn't have to even post this because the problem would already have been solved. But that's not the case, and this is a problem. I believe that it is more of a problem then just to stop buying tomatos from Canada. No, situations such as these usually have deeper connections then most people may realize. I hope someone can find these connections, and solve this problem.
Godspeed
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