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Trakuon, which is known as water spinach in the United States, is a hardy plant that can grown nearly anywhere it lands, provided the weather's warm enough. In parts of Florida it completely choked waterways, proving resistant to all but the strongest herbicides. However, there are two other things about Trakuon that people in the United States don't really know. Number one, that it's a major part of a big number of dishes in Asian cuisine, and number two, that it is a massive industry.
Daniel Kramer
Like Yin Vuth, most farmers exclusively grow water
spinach inside greenhouses, which can become suffocatingly hot in the
middle of the day, reaching around 120 degrees.
How Did That Happen?
Well, because this water spinach is considered a nuisance or an invasive species, many states have outlawed growing and cultivating it. However, many other states have done no such thing, and others have simple issued licenses for it. In Texas you can grow this plant with a permit. And as a result there are communities of people, arranged in little villages, whose only source of income is to grow and ship this plant. At .30 to .90 a pound, with bales of 30 pounds being shipped out on trucks, that are one major cash crop.
You see, it's just like anything else. The laws of supply and demand require that the less of a product there is, or the harder it is to get, the more expensive it becomes. And if you live in a state where no one can grow this plant, but you still need it for your cuisine, then you have to pay the prices that are required due to it coming in from far away. Additionally, you have 5 days between when the plant is cut and when it goes bad, adding a time factor into the equation for how much money can be charged for it.
Why Has the Government Not Copped to This?
Trakuon has, for the most part, been thought of as something quaint to Asian culture by U.S. authorities. As such there haven't really been investigations into what monies could be made by charging for growing licenses, transportation fees, etc. It's considered a foreign nuisance, and without a proper understanding of the cultures that are using these plants, how important they are will never really dawn on the U.S. government. Yet one more missed opportunity for revenue and cultural understanding at some level.
However, businesses and corporations haven't missed the implications at all. They're taking it in stride, and doing their best to provide a plant that people want to buy and that people need to use in order to properly prepare their food. While there have been violations, such as transporting this plant into a state where it's been banned by law, generally the corporations are making a killing off this product. And some of the newer generation are getting smart, using modern machinery to harvest and plant, ensuring bigger crops and bigger profits for all.
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17 comments:
State Flroida banned the cultivation of this Yuon like weeds since early 90's with provision to repeal every 10 years.Local farmers of Yuon root lobbied the legislature but failed. State renewed this law soon its expiration date approached. White farmers raised complaint in naming it,the alien and invasive plants.
Imagine that!
Yes there is money to be made from this, but what missing in this article is that growing it is not as simple as being mentioned in here. During the those winter months, it is very difficult grow and fresh crops can be spoiled with one cold front coming in and the farmer pretty much would lost everything and this is not to mention cold and dirty work. Summer time the temperature be reach up to 120 degrees, people that are going into those green houses are taking a risk from heat stroke and so on and the product is very cheap, maybe 30 cent per lb and it is hard work, with labor putting to it to cut and clean it. People that are living here are not rich and if there people that getting rich from this business, maybe only a very handful of them. The problem is with the new comers, the new comers are greedy and want to take control of the village . This village is a very peaceful village, they have a temple, a church, got their own band and so on. Don't make it sound like a major business, majority of people that are living here, do not make that much money. They just enjoy living there, making a little of money, using well water, grow their own veggies and many enjoy going fishing at Galveston.
If the foods ain't for white, it ain't right. There is a double standard around the world and this is definetly one of them.
Where's Popeye?
I would like mine to have some worms with it. I remember back yonder we had to watch each spoonful for worms in the mix.
W~W
12:43 AM,
You are so right! If the white folks have no need for it, it's illegal.
W~W,
Clean your shit man! Nast ass mofo! How is there worms in your Trakuon?
Concentrate less on trying to convert my people to Christianity and more on what's on your spoon.
Your people? Did you make them? Are you providing for their daily needs? They must be converted or they will perish in the eternal flames with the devil and his angels!
What is on my spoon is less harmful then what is coming out of your evil heart. I, as a believer in the God of Israel see what is coming upon this world. It is my duty to warn and avert people of God's coming judgment if they will take heed. God destroyed the world once with a flood and the bible say that he will destroy this earth again with fire. Sin must be dealt with. Sin is a trangression of God's law (Torah). If man don't make peace with God awhile he can--rebellion must be sudue.
Mercy will not be granted once final Judgment is given. Forgive me for using this illustration...as Pol Pot show no mercy to those whom he about to kill, God will not listen to your pleading for another chance when he closes the door of salvation through Yeshua, the Messiah. Now is the accepted time for your deliverance by trusting in his Son, Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
W~W
W-W,
Make sure you take your cell phone with you and call me and tell with it's like when you get "up there"
Baay Kdaing
We should plant some ធុរេន around our house.
What will the cuacasian saying about it ?
The intellectuals and many of scientists did not believe in
religions.
But without religions,the science
is blank,said Albert Einstein.
A.Einstein did not believe in
religions.
When the science improves,people
Decrease believing in religions.
W~W @10:19 AM,
My people's are the people who talks like me and shared the same orign and ancestral, that's my people. Don't read into it too much.
We're too different type of people. I believe in something that are real. You, fairy tale.
There are questions that need to be answered. And you haven't provide me thus far.
Forgive me for my ignorance! But, can you tell me who is the author that wrote your bible? I am curious because I never seen one with a 'god' signature on it.
Where was he when 1.7 millions of my people slaughter to death? You can't tell me that he couldn't take a days off of his busy schedule to cease it. Or was he too busy watching Adam's and Eve playing poker.
Please share with us your answer.
As with any religion, people are agents of that particular belief. No different with God of the bible. Here are verses in the New Testament that tells how we got the Bible:
..All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: (2 Timothy 3:16)
..Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
..For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. (2 Peter 1:20,21)
God used men like Moses, David, Ezra, Solomon...to write different parts of the Scriptures from the Old Testament to the New Testament. His Holy Spirit moved on them to able them to write exactly what need to be written.
Where was he when those 1.7 million people died in Cambodia? Ask your Buddha. I have no answer for you because Cambodians didn't believe in God. Remember, deliverance should have come from the god they been trusting. Fair enough?
A caveat, you must come to God on his term not your preconcieved ideas. God is not Santa Clause. In one incident, 23,000 people of Israel died. Many Israeli died in the presence of God because they refused to believe in who he is. God does ethnic cleansing in his own house and I'm not exempt.
From the time the children of Israel left the land of Egypt until they reached the promised land, I suppose an estimate of 1 million of them died without receiving God's promise of a good life that he had promised them. Reason? Disobedience and unbelieve. Where was God? there all the time with them. He provided for them bread from heaven for 40 years in the desert. Their clothes didn't wear out, neither were their shoes.
W~W
Baay Kdaing,
If you do not believe me now, how will you believe me if I were able to contact you from the other side? Only if you step across the line will your eyes be open to the truth of God. Pride is very destructive!
I thank God that my heart was open to him from the very beginning of my desire to know him. He gave me joy in my heart that I just couldn't seem to stop praising him in little that I know of him. I had my share of doubts and fears but I continue to press on to know my Savior and King.
I had a dream in Thailand that puzzled me but I waited for an answer to come. This was in late '75 or early '76. In my dream a voice spoke to me from the sky asking, "Do you want to go? I answered, yes. The voice said, "You must die". So I died and the voice said, "Now you can go." I just answered yes because I wanted to go, but I didn't know where I was suppose to go. I think I know know the interpretation of that dream.
In Srok Khmer one evening I was laying in the harvested rice field and looked up into the sky I asked this question: What is beyond the blue sky? After this incident I became afraid of the unknown. I believe this was my point of contact with the God of the Universe that I know came to believe in. You see, I have at least 8 siblings and I'm the only person out of my family that came to America. I believe I;m hand picked by God even though I was a heathen, raised in Buddhist country.
Wild~Wisconsinite
My motto is: "Seeing is believing", if one can't see, it cease to exist".
Q: I can't see wind, does that mean wind doesn't exist?
Q: I can't see voice either, does that mean a person doesn't exist?
I can hear the voice and see the written word, by believing in the voice and reading the written word it become to you a fairy tale.
W~W
W~W @9:42,
My point is exactly! Man wrote the bible. I rest my case.
So, one have to believe in him in order for him to step in and save 1.7 millions that parish? That's not much to ask if he just come down and made his present felt so the non believer like myself can be a believer.
When you see him next time tell him to visit me. We have so much to talk about.
W~W @10:11
I was hand pick too to come to the US. It's called sponsorship. Of course, with the help of my dad's filing the paper work. You can probably guess who is my god by now.
6:30AM
I use my freedom to honor my true Creator and you use your new freedom to dishonor your Creator. It is no difference as if you would dishonor your father and mother.
How is it that I dishonor my father? You don't know me at all to even mention something like that. If anything, I think you are the one that dishonor you parents by dishing their belief. I think you need to honor your parents and sibling by stop advocating your crap here via KI-Media.
Me and my creator have a good relationship. It's called father-son bond. You know anything about that.
Oh, and I SEE him and hugged him every single day.
Have fun at church today and don't forget to donate into the basket.
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