melamine poisoning aside; there's a donald duck story in which uncle scrooge gets a gift goat from some himalayan maharaja. the goat would eat only wild strawberries grown on the south side of its home mountains. hauling them to duckburg got expensive over time. but a healthy goat was a precondition for doing business with the maharaja so scrooge simply had to pony up.
now, i wonder if there's a moral in this story regarding importing US organic veggies grown in the California sun.. not quite sure what it would be