resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoCalifornia farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte collapseswww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square151linkfedilinkarrow-up1417arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: usa@lemmy.mlnews@lemmings.world
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minus-squareTriumph@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up28arrow-down1·2 days agoThe cannery closed. That’s why this is happening.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 day agoUh huh, and that had nothing to do with capitalism or profits, right?
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day 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.