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The government once controlled the raisin supply

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Because unregulated dried grapes would obviously lead to national anarchy. For decades, a federal committee forcibly seized a percentage of farmer harvests to artificially restrict supply and keep prices comfortably high for corporate growers.

The government once controlled the raisin supply
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