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Florida’s Citrus Slaughter

MANY SOUTH FLORIDA residents remember with grief a day in the early ’00s when the government came for their citrus trees.

“They didn’t ask politely, ‘Can we please come in and take your trees?’ No, they said, we’re taking the trees,” one Orange County resident recalled.

Armed with chainsaws

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