Heaving Tomato in Protest’s One Thing--but 350 Tons?
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<i> Reuters</i>
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands — Farmers, tired of sagging tomato prices in Europe, protested by heaving 350 tons of the fruit over a cliff in the Canary Islands, a local cooperative official said Wednesday.
But he suggested that the demonstration will have little effect on the market because Europeans shivering in unusually cold weather are eating fewer tomatoes.
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