09-10-2012 09:04 AM | Mexico

Politics raised in spat over tomatoes

A cross-border tomato feud has gotten about as rotten as any food fight probably could.

Florida-led U.S. growers apparently have won over Washington to their long-standing argument that Mexican farmers deviously underprice their tomatoes to conquer the American table. The Mexicans accuse U.S. farmers of covering for their incompetence by using election-year leverage to squelch free trade.
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