employees, and contractors, now saying okay, folks, if you re coming to work, you have to be vaccinated. if not, you have to undergo regular testing which is going to be very inconvenient. i welcome all of those steps. if we want to send delta packing, this is a really important step to go forward. it should not be so easy for unvaccinated people to remain in that state when they re putting the rest of us at risk. what do you do about governors? in texas, they have actually said, they banned the idea that anybody or any locality can mandate vaccines. there are people who are actively working against this kind of thing. how does that get handled by agencies and by the administration? well, again, i m not a political person. i m a scientist, a physician. it hurts me to see politics getting in the middle of these really important public health decisions. i do wish that leaders would step aside from whatever political considerations might be guiding them and say what is the best way to
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Winter import cherry program continues expanding
While cherries have generally been thought of as a summer fruit, United Apple’s import program is making new crop cherries available this month.
“We have offered a Chilean cherry program for the past 13 years and demand from retailers keeps growing every season. This year we have broadened the supply base to keep pace with requests from our retailers, who look forward to offering the consumer favorite cherries to build traffic in the produce aisle and respond to increased activity with online shopping programs,” says Brett Baker, United Apple partner and executive vice-president.
“The initial challenge was to secure volume for our program that is competing in the global market where the vast majority of cherries are exported to Asia and the Middle East. Our approach has been to reach out to the strongest growers in Australia, Chile and New Zealand and let them know that we have relationships with leading retailers, who are i