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Sean Hannity Falsely Identifies 'Pallets and Pallets' of Baby Formula at the Border Amid Shortage

  
Via:  al Jizzerror  •  2 years ago  •  76 comments

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Sean Hannity Falsely Identifies 'Pallets and Pallets' of Baby Formula at the Border Amid Shortage
CNN debunks a photo the Fox News host shared and said was baby formula reserved for "illegal immigrants"

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There is a shortage of baby formula in the US.  Butt, the so-called baby formula shown by Hannity was actually NIDO® products. There is no shortage of NIDO® products (clearly marked "for ages 1-3) at the grocery store.

Fox uses disinformation to cause outrage among their viewers.  Fucker Carlson uses "replacement" bullshit to provoke White supremacists.  We saw the impact of Carlson's replacement theory in Buffalo where a White supremacist committed mass murder.

The disinformation spewed by Fox News causes dangerous outrage.  


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(Note: post has been updated with a response from Sean Hannity and information about baby formula vs. powdered milk for babies.)

Fox News' Sean Hannity shared photos that falsely claimed to show "pallets and pallets" of baby formula at the southern border that were reserved for "illegal immigrants," which CNN quickly debunked, calling the "Fox and Friends" segment an "illuminating example" in "outrage creation."

Rep. Kat Cammack (R - Florida) joined the Fox News host on Friday to talk about the national shortage of baby formula. She's among several Republicans who have decried President Joe Biden over his decision to provide baby formula to migrant infants. Cammack has been on several Fox shows to express outrage over the issue and shared photos she said were given to her by a Customs and Border Patrol agent.

"Pallets and pallets of baby formula for illegal immigrants and their families even as hardworking American…families, we are now suffering a massive nationwide shortage," Hannity lamented, showing the photos on-air.

Hannity and Cammack's characterization of the photos, however, was debatable and, according to CNN Business managing editor Alex Koppelman, both misleading and incorrect. Koppelman, who authored a report on the matter for the Reliable Sources newsletter, said the packages contain powdered milk, not baby formula.

"The photo Hannity pointed to, and the one that followed it, showed boxes and boxes clearly labeled NIDO," the report, titled "Outrage Creation," read. "As anyone at Fox could have discovered with about a minute's worth of fact-checking, NIDO is not baby formula; it is powdered milk. As its maker, Nestle, specifically notes: 'NIDO® products are only intended for children ages 1 year and older.'"

"There is undoubtedly some formula being provided to babies in these centers at the border — you'd assume there would be, unless you expect the government to simply decide to starve babies in its care," Koppelman continued.

"The narrative spun over the past two days on the right, though, has let people imagine not a little bit of necessary food but rivers of formula going to the undocumented over themselves. It's an illuminating example of how Republican politicians and right-wing media work in concert, turning the thinnest possible set of facts into days of outrage over Them getting something You deserve — and then, as with the photos Hannity and 'Fox & Friends' used, abandoning facts altogether."

Hannity took to Twitter to argue his point. "As this picture shows (which aired in the same segment), there is in fact baby formula at the border and two of the additional pictures we aired during the interview w/ Rep. Cammack were milk products for babies over 1 years old," he wrote, adding that when he reached out to the White House and Department of Homeland Security for comment, he said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki defended sending baby formula to the border.

However, powdered milk for "babies over 1 year old" is not formula. According to the Cleveland Clinic, "A healthy baby should drink breast milk or formula until they are 1 year old. "Generally, babies should have at least 24 ounces per day between the ages of 9 months to 1 year. But once your baby starts eating a full diet of nutritious solid foods, make the switch to cow's milk, which offers protein and vitamin D."

Pampers agrees, writing that "The general rule of thumb is to start transitioning from formula to cow's milk at 1 year, but not anytime sooner," and suggests to "wait until your baby is at least 12 months old to start transitioning from formula to milk." On a similar note, Yummy Toddler Food writes that "babies should stop drinking formula by 12 months of age."

The reason, they say is: 1) "When a baby turns a year old, they are typically eating three meals and two snacks a day, and are getting the majority of their nutrition from food." And 2) "Continuing to use formula can reduce a child's appetite for food and can potentially cause challenges with learning to like a range of foods and textures.

According to The Wall Street Journal, "some 40% of the nation's baby formula is out of stock," citing Abbott Laboratories' February recall of several brands and the closure of a Michigan plant after four infants fell deathly ill after ingesting powdered formula that contained bacteria. "Last year Abbott accounted for 42% of the U.S. formula market, about 95% of which is produced domestically," WSJ reported.


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al Jizzerror
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1  seeder  al Jizzerror    2 years ago

Hannity is Trump's biggest fan and also serves as an advisor.

Fox News is the propaganda arm of the Retrumplican Party.

512

 
 
 
devangelical
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1.1  devangelical  replied to  al Jizzerror @1    2 years ago

too bad one of those boxes didn't get damaged in shipment causing a big pile of white powder to be left. hannity's nose would start running, he'd start sweating, and he'd be searching his desk for a straw while on the phone to don jr.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
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1.1.1  cobaltblue  replied to  devangelical @1.1    2 years ago
don jr.

I actually felt sorry for coked up Junior during his RNC speech. I found his over-excitement telling. I thought the close-up accentuated his oversized teary pupils and that was entertaining. His bad timing was amusing. But when he couldn't get through two sentences without exhibiting coke jaw, it just made me pissed his media-whore girlfriend or grifter family members didn't get him out from behind the dais. It was then I realized that they just didn't give a shit about that poor loser.

 
 
 
Right Down the Center
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2  Right Down the Center    2 years ago

The left seems to be bouncing from we have a legal obligation to supply illegals with baby formula to the pictures are not accurate and we do not have formula for the illegal aliens. Maybe they should get their story straight and stick with it.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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2.1  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Right Down the Center @2    2 years ago
The left seems to be bouncing from we have a legal obligation to supply illegals with baby formula to the pictures are not accurate and we do not have formula for the illegal aliens.

And they expect to be taken seriously when giving "information".  

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
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2.1.1  seeder  al Jizzerror  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @2.1    2 years ago
And they expect to be taken seriously when giving "information".

Do you believe the disinformation being spewed on Fox?

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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2.1.2  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  al Jizzerror @2.1.1    2 years ago

You would have to ask somebody who actually watches Fox.  Maybe somebody from the left.

 
 
 
Ozzwald
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2.1.3  Ozzwald  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @2.1.2    2 years ago
You would have to ask somebody who actually watches Fox.

If you don't watch FoxNews, why are you here defending it?

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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2.1.4  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Ozzwald @2.1.3    2 years ago

Al is the one that assumed I watched Fox.  I never said I did.

 
 
 
Ozzwald
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2.1.5  Ozzwald  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @2.1.4    2 years ago

Al is the one that assumed I watched Fox.  I never said I did.

Question stands.  If you don't watch it, why are you defending it?

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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2.1.6  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Ozzwald @2.1.5    2 years ago
why are you defending it?

lets see...

  1. it pisses liberals like you off.
  2. I don't care that liberals like you are pissed off.
  3. It's fun to see you pissed off.
  4. IDGAFF if you're pissed off.
 
 
 
al Jizzerror
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2.1.7  seeder  al Jizzerror  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @2.1.6    2 years ago

Oh, I see.

You're just a troll.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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2.1.8  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  al Jizzerror @2.1.7    2 years ago
You're just a troll.

Not part of the left.  Sorry.  Any more wrong assumptions?

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
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2.1.9  seeder  al Jizzerror  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @2.1.8    2 years ago

Still trolling....

 
 
 
cobaltblue
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2.1.10  cobaltblue  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @2.1.6    2 years ago
  • it pisses liberals like you off.
  • I don't care that liberals like you are pissed off.
  • It's fun to see you pissed off.
  • IDGAFF if you're pissed off.

Typical of the uninformed right. No wonder tRump enjoys ripping off people like them. No wonder he incites them and then turns his back them. They're willing to shit on their self-respect, willing to piss on their dignity, because it pisses the left off. I love it. You do you, let us all witness it, and keep doing it. Keep talking. 

 
 
 
cobaltblue
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2.1.11  cobaltblue  replied to  al Jizzerror @2.1.9    2 years ago
Still trolling.

Love the "pisses off the left" trollers. They comprise the Nugent Party. Ted Nugent claimed that he shit and pissed his own pants in order to get a 4F so he wouldn’t have to serve his country. The Nugent party is led by a forgot-which-foot bone spur traitor who claims "I like people who weren't captured." 

McCain's survival through years of nearly fatal torture and hardship in the Hanoi prison known as the "Hanoi Hilton" was made more impressive by his refusal to be repatriated before the release of all the American POWs captured before him.

Nugent later claimed that the pissing and shitting incident wasn't true, and he did get a student deferment first and a later deferment for an unknown medical reason. 

The Nugent Party members sit in their own shit and piss because they think it pisses off the left. 

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
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2.2  seeder  al Jizzerror  replied to  Right Down the Center @2    2 years ago
Maybe they should get their story straight

Maybe Fox should broast accurate news instead of trying to produce outrage.

 
 
 
Right Down the Center
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2.2.1  Right Down the Center  replied to  al Jizzerror @2.2    2 years ago

Is the news accurate and the picture not accurate or is there no law saying we have to supply illegals with formula like the liberals have been saying.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
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2.2.2  cobaltblue  replied to  Right Down the Center @2.2.1    2 years ago
like the liberals have been saying

Well, if you believe only liberals are saying it, then you're admitting the right is less than informed. I guess there are few right leaners that know of the Flores Agreement that was enacted in 1997. Every administration, including trump, has followed Flores since then. 

I have included Flores in my comment 8 below. 

 
 
 
Right Down the Center
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2.2.3  Right Down the Center  replied to  cobaltblue @2.2.2    2 years ago

I also know Trump tried to lose Flores and some party blocked him

 
 
 
cobaltblue
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2.2.4  cobaltblue  replied to  Right Down the Center @2.2.3    2 years ago
I also know Trump tried to lose Flores and some party blocked him

I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that Trumplethinskin the Humanitarian wanted to dump it.  

 
 
 
cobaltblue
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2.3  cobaltblue  replied to  Right Down the Center @2    2 years ago
legal obligation to supply illegals with baby formula

Read the Flores Agreement. I'll never understand people who show their ignorance with such conviction. 

 
 
 
Right Down the Center
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2.3.1  Right Down the Center  replied to  cobaltblue @2.3    2 years ago

Facilities provide children in their custody with access to sanitary and temperature-controlled conditions, water, food, 

In the case of infants, food would include baby formula.  Glad I could help you connect the dots.

 
 
 
Split Personality
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2.3.2  Split Personality  replied to  Right Down the Center @2.3.1    2 years ago

In the case of infants, food would include baby formula.  Glad I could help you connect the dots.

Glad to see you have reached the right conclusion, eventually.

 
 
 
Right Down the Center
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2.3.3  Right Down the Center  replied to  Split Personality @2.3.2    2 years ago

Except I was never confused, sure.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
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2.3.4  cobaltblue  replied to  Right Down the Center @2.3.3    2 years ago
Except I was never confused, sure.

Are you sure? You want to stick with that ... story? You at 2.2.1 says different. 

Is the news accurate and the picture not accurate or is there no law saying we have to supply illegals with formula like the liberals have been saying.
 
 
 
Right Down the Center
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2.3.5  Right Down the Center  replied to  cobaltblue @2.3.4    2 years ago

'Or is there no law' is a question to the last poster. I admit I put a period instead of a question mark but the wording is one of a question. So go read it again.

 
 
 
devangelical
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2.3.6  devangelical  replied to  cobaltblue @2.3.4    2 years ago

gee, it's the "I thought I made a mistake, but I was wrong" defense...

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
2.3.7  cobaltblue  replied to  devangelical @2.3.6    2 years ago
but I was wrong" defense

Common excuse from many. I've come to expect it.

 
 
 
Split Personality
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2.3.8  Split Personality  replied to  Right Down the Center @2.3.5    2 years ago
'Or is there no law' is a question to the last poster.

Actually that comment was to Al J, not me.

My understanding is that decisions by courts such as SCOTUS become

common law as opposed to statute law passed by legislatures.

Court settlements are considered to be enforceable laws 

in spite of the lack of statute or legislation.

I have zero legal training so my explanation might not be perfect

for someone in the business or a trained lawyer.

 
 
 
cjcold
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2.4  cjcold  replied to  Right Down the Center @2    2 years ago

Both statements are true. Only small minds must think along the lines of either/or.

 
 
 
Right Down the Center
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2.4.1  Right Down the Center  replied to  cjcold @2.4    2 years ago

Either we are supplying formula to illegals or we are not supplying formula to illegals. Only the mindless or a biden supporter think both statements could be true. [deleted]

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
2.4.2  cjcold  replied to  Right Down the Center @2.4.1    2 years ago

WOW! You just proved my point.

 
 
 
Ender
Professor Principal
3  Ender    2 years ago

From one thing I read, the pallet they showed was not even baby formula. It was dried milk or something.

 
 
 
al Jizzerror
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3.1  seeder  al Jizzerror  replied to  Ender @3    2 years ago
It was dried milk or something.

You're right.

It was NIDO® (dried milk for ages 1-3) which is not intended for newborns.

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
4  Kavika     2 years ago

Sean Hannity drank all the baby formula and is now trying to blame the dems. 

We all know what a big baby Hannity is so this is a very believable story. 

 
 
 
JBB
Professor Principal
5  JBB    2 years ago

How petty is it to begrudge babies getting formula?

 
 
 
Ed-NavDoc
Professor Quiet
6  Ed-NavDoc    2 years ago

I am not, nor have I ever really been a Hannity fan, but I do not see CNN having the credibility to honestly debunk much of anything lately.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
7  cobaltblue    2 years ago

Further proof that the "pro-life" party is really "pro-birth". Once that baby leaves the birth canal, all bets are off. It doesn't matter what country they're in. 

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
7.1  devangelical  replied to  cobaltblue @7    2 years ago

it's the insurrectionist party's version of hitler's lebensborn program.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
7.1.1  cobaltblue  replied to  devangelical @7.1    2 years ago
lebensborn

Himmler's worry about Replacement Theory before it was a theory. 

 
 
 
evilone
Professor Guide
7.2  evilone  replied to  cobaltblue @7    2 years ago
Once that baby leaves the birth canal, all bets are off. It doesn't matter what country they're in. 

Did you see Boebert's newest tweet? It's a hilarious example of personal cognitive dissonance.

“Anyone else consider that these companies suddenly offering to pay for employee abortions are doing so just to avoid paying for maternity leave?” she asked on Twitter. “Cheaper to kill the baby... true evil personified,” Boebert said.

This is the same person who only last year posted this against maternity leave:

“Listen, I’m a mother of four. I delivered one of my children in the front seat of my truck. Because, as a mom of four, we got things to do. Ain’t nobody got time for two and a half months of maternity leave. We have a world to save here.” 
 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
7.2.1  cobaltblue  replied to  evilone @7.2    2 years ago
Boebert's

You gotta trust what she says. She did, after all, get her GED certificate in 2020, a month before her first election primary. 

Soooo ... do I need a sarc tag here? 

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
7.2.2  devangelical  replied to  cobaltblue @7.2.1    2 years ago

I've interacted with her before, more than a decade ago, when she was working the drive up window at the McD's in rifle CO. she didn't win the county she lived in last election because of her family's reputation in town.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
7.2.3  cobaltblue  replied to  devangelical @7.2.2    2 years ago
she was working the drive up window at the McD's in rifle CO

Considering the shit that comes out of her uneducated mouth, she should immediately say "you want flies with that?" every time she speaks. 

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
7.2.4  devangelical  replied to  cobaltblue @7.2.3    2 years ago

I don't see her getting re-elected since her district was redrawn and she's circling the whirlpool of the local voting machine breach scandal that her Q-nut campaign manager was involved with.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
7.2.5  devangelical  replied to  cobaltblue @7.2.3    2 years ago

DC trumpsters already know what her idea of a happy meal is.

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
7.2.6  Trout Giggles  replied to  evilone @7.2    2 years ago

Stupid twat. Maternity leave is for mother-baby bonding and a recovery period for the mother. What things did she have to get on with that she had one of them in the truck? Did she have to get back to her drive-thru job at McD's?

 
 
 
afrayedknot
Junior Quiet
7.2.7  afrayedknot  replied to  devangelical @7.2.4    2 years ago

“I don't see her getting re-elected…”

Wish I could share your confidence.

As a newly relocated resident of the district office she holds, and being subject daily to the yard signs, letters to the local editor, and bumper stickers hereabouts…not to mention the money from outside the district she has banked, she will be difficult to defeat.

The poster child for all that is wrong with the political landscape as it currently exists. Imbecilic ramblings excused for the sake of party numbers…

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
7.2.8  Trout Giggles  replied to  afrayedknot @7.2.7    2 years ago

Don't drink the water

 
 
 
afrayedknot
Junior Quiet
7.2.9  afrayedknot  replied to  Trout Giggles @7.2.8    2 years ago

“Don't drink the water”

Moved from AZ…know all about the poison in the well. 

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
Professor Principal
7.2.10  Trout Giggles  replied to  afrayedknot @7.2.9    2 years ago

There is a lot of fluoride in CO water. There's an aesthetic effect called Colorado Brown Stain where the teeth are stained a motley brown. It makes them look bad but in fact the teeth are very strong because of the fluoride. Studies were done on this effect and it was found that people had few cavities. And that's why fluoride has a Secondary Contaminant Level of 2.0 mg/l.

More information that you wanted, I'm sure. <giggle>

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
7.2.11  cobaltblue  replied to  Trout Giggles @7.2.6    2 years ago
Stupid twat

I laughed so hard at that!! 

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
7.2.12  devangelical  replied to  Trout Giggles @7.2.6    2 years ago
she had one of them in the truck

probably the same place it was conceived...

 
 
 
Paula Bartholomew
Professor Participates
7.2.13  Paula Bartholomew  replied to  devangelical @7.2.4    2 years ago

She should provide every one of her base her ultra special pulled pork sliders the day before the election.  They will be too busy puking and shitting to get to the polling places.

 
 
 
cjcold
Professor Quiet
7.2.14  cjcold  replied to  devangelical @7.2.12    2 years ago
probably the same place it was conceived...

And in the same position.

 
 
 
devangelical
Professor Principal
7.2.15  devangelical  replied to  cjcold @7.2.14    2 years ago

one ankle over the steering wheel and the other in the rifle rack...

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
8  cobaltblue    2 years ago

The shortage of formula begins: "Abbott voluntarily recalled powder formulas that included Alimentum, EleCare, and Similac in February because of  potential contamination with an environmental bacteria called Cronobacter sakazakii . Two babies died and two more got sick after having been fed formula produced at the Sturgis plant."

***

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday reached an agreement with Abbott Laboratories on the steps needed to reopen the company’s shuttered baby formula plant, which could begin to ease the shortage of infant formula that has frightened and exasperated parents nationwide.

The F.D.A. said it expected Abbott to restart production in about two weeks, and was poised to review progress at the plant in Sturgis, Mich. It has been shut down since February after several babies who had consumed formula that had been produced there fell ill and two died.

The agreement stems from a U.S. Department of Justice   complaint   and   consent decree   with the company and three of its executives. Those court records say the F.D.A. found a deadly bacteria, called cronobacter, in the plant in February and the company found more tranches of the bacteria later that month.

According to the complaint, the same Sturgis factory had also produced two batches of formula in the summer of 2019 and 2020 on different production equipment that tested positive for the bacteria.

Abbott staff “have been unwilling or unable to implement sustainable corrective actions to ensure the safety and quality of food manufactured for infants,” leading to the need for legal action, the documents state.
Cammack said she was not blaming the babies — “it is not the children’s fault at all” — but she and Abbott blasted the Biden administration for allowing this happen.
The problem is that the Biden administration is following the law — a law that President Donald Trump also followed (though he wasn’t happy about it).
The Flores Agreement was enacted in 1997 and followed by every administration since then. 
 
 
 
Ender
Professor Principal
8.1  Ender  replied to  cobaltblue @8    2 years ago

For me it shows the dangers of having everything concentrated into a select few.

 
 
 
cobaltblue
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8.1.1  cobaltblue  replied to  Ender @8.1    2 years ago
For me it shows the dangers of having everything concentrated into a select few

You're right, Ender. Again. 

 
 
 
cobaltblue
Junior Quiet
10  cobaltblue    2 years ago

Why haven't the right leaning complainers bitched about not having shipments of formula sent to us by Canada?

 
 
 
Drinker of the Wry
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10.1  Drinker of the Wry  replied to  cobaltblue @10    2 years ago
bitched about not having shipments of formula sent to us by Canada?

Good question.  I think that High Tariffs and FDA labeling regulations has limited imports.

 
 

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