resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoCalifornia farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte collapseswww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square151linkfedilinkarrow-up1415arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1410arrow-down1external-linkCalifornia farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte collapseswww.independent.co.ukresipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square151linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTriumph@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up28arrow-down1·2 months agoThe cannery closed. That’s why this is happening.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoUh huh, and that had nothing to do with capitalism or profits, right?
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoWell, in this case those profits might be modeling a real world situation. If Del Monte was pushing canned Peaches more than people needed/wanted, then changing the farms from one crop to another isn’t necessarily a horrible thing.
The cannery closed. That’s why this is happening.
Uh huh, and that had nothing to do with capitalism or profits, right?
Well, in this case those profits might be modeling a real world situation. If Del Monte was pushing canned Peaches more than people needed/wanted, then changing the farms from one crop to another isn’t necessarily a horrible thing.