Don't we import much more food from the south than the north? At least Canada is proficient in establishing and carrying out standards, even if they may not reach our exacting standards. I fear that is much less likely for food from south of us. I also think that a much bigger risk than pesticide residue on these foods in the risk of microbial contiamination, which so far, thankfully, has all been due to accident or negligence. God help us when the terrorists discover the ease with which they could infest these shipments.

all the latest microbiological outbreaks have come from american-grown produce http://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/

also, my guess is that if it were so easy to contaminate the food supply in a meaningful way the terrorists would have done already.

unless you count pigs as terrorists.

You see, Mr White, there are two kinds of logic: logical logic which is the kind most ordinary people operate on and Imperial Logic which is all about power and can be bizarrely illogical. Should a country be forced, by some 'agreement' negotiated by the craven cowards who have got themselves elected, to poison its own citizens by forcing them to eat food sprayed with higher levels of carcinogenic chemicals. Well, not according to logic but Imperial Logic doesn't work that way: it's about maximising power. In this case U.S. power.

It's about 'harmonising' absolutely everything, that is centralizing everything. It all proves the truth of that famous Indian observation on European 'civilization' which goes something like: 'only when we've eaten the last fish and destroyed the last river will we realize that we can't eat money.'