resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoCalifornia farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte collapseswww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square154linkfedilinkarrow-up1421arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: news@lemmings.world
arrow-up1416arrow-down1external-linkCalifornia farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte collapseswww.independent.co.ukresipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square154linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: news@lemmings.world
minus-squareTriumph@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up28arrow-down1·1 month agoThe cannery closed. That’s why this is happening.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 month agoUh huh, and that had nothing to do with capitalism or profits, right?
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month 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.