Sorry SIN and others - food is about NUTRITION and nutrition is about HEALTH.
We should be allowed to obtain foods that will support our health.
For instance - about those green peppers versus those red peppers ---- people with risk of stroke or heart attacks (many a belizean fits this category) are on medication that reacts terribly with anything green ---- for those people there is a huge difference between red peppers and green ..... and that is the tip of the iceberg.
Mushrooms, cauliflower and broccoli are strong anti-oxident foods. These are not luxuries, they are how we keep healthy.
Frankly this is perhaps the one thing that could cause me to move out of this country --- if i cannot support my health with good nutrition there is no way we can contemplate old age here, because if we stay and eat crapy food we will not make it to old age.

Take a look at the levels of hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, obesity and bad dental health in the population that subsists on a traditional Belizean diet!
Let's fry an onion in lard for half an hour and then fry some hormone filed chicken and add some gummy white rice .......... or bring up a generation of kids on sweetened condensed milk,fry jacks and ideals. Not smart.

We've about fished out the seas -- and the mennonite chickens are pumped so full of hormones that it's terrifying.

Are we really expecting this country to go back to the days of soft carrots, salted fish, soggy cabbage and rotten onions? This is cave-man stuff - realy stupid, really counter-productive.

San Pedro has developed from a lousy place to eat, to a place known for it's really fantastic food - we DO have culinary tourism now and it's a great thing - it also has a lot to do with people deciding this is a decent place for longer-term living (retirement).

Seems like every administration has one guy from Cayo who rams this kind of thing through just after an election without clear planning and thought --- it's nuts. Then we try to get the veggies out to AC and find out that the growers have no understanding on how to ship or deliver ----
Ridiculous and infuriating.