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GREEN GOLD

Chinese water spinach -- a sweet, crunchy virid Asian veggie -- may
soon be hard to find. That's because, in Florida, from where up to
four tons of it are shipped each week to markets from top to toe the East
Coast and Canada, authorities have begun to enforce a ban forward the green
that has existed for 17 years. Meanwhile, spinach farmers, mainly
Asian American, worry about their futurity "It hurts that they want
us to overturn our crop," says farmer Be Le Indeed, water spinach
has enabled a local Vietnamese American farmers to realize the

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