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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy

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California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy

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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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Del Monte Foods shuttered its Modesto and Hughson cannery plants in April.
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    Capitalism at work!

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      Obviously the government had already ensured the food security of all of those in need first

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        lmao

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      What the hell do we do with peaches we can’t sell!? They’re completely useless now!

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        Worse, they exist only to lower the value of other nearby peaches. To preserve other people’s peaches, the excess peaches must be destroyed. Tangible food is obliterated for an ideology.

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          These people constantly scream about the Free Market, and then they go and manipulate it like this.

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          I’m not sure if the end goal is one supremely valuable peach or zero peaches, but I absolutely love where we’re going with this.

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            Peach worshippers

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        Genuinely what do you do with peaches you can’t sell?

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          I’ll take them. I love peaches.

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            Not these you don’t. They taste like nothing and have shit texture.

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              You’d be surprised the peaches I’m willing to eat!

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              So why are they grown?

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                Because they ship well and don’t produce as much ethylene that causes ripening. Like tomatoes and every other fruit they were chosen for looks and not spoiling, rather than taste.

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                https://lemmy.world/comment/23585077

                So Del Monte could go bankrupt.

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