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> One of my former classmates in undergrad is a Visiting Researcher at Purdue in the Agricultural Engineering department; he tells me that many tomato transport
by nyanpasu64 5y ago
> One of my former classmates in undergrad is a Visiting Researcher at Purdue in the Agricultural Engineering department; he tells me that many tomato transporters actually own or rent fuel tankers that they fill in the South to sell at a markup in the North. In order to make some extra cash on the trip South with the empty tanker, they carry tomatoes.
> I know what you might be thinking: is it even sanitary to transport tomatoes that close to gasoline? But that is the least of the issues plaguing these transporters, the biggest one is that they lose about 12% of the tomatoes in a two-day trip.
This doesn't sound safe :(
- pcrh 5y agoThe article shows raffia baskets containing tomatoes strapped to the top of fuel tankers. So they're not transported within the same space as the fuel.
- dustintrex 5y agoWelcome to the developing world. Here's where your meat comes from in Nigeria: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xscqgr https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xscqgr
- highstep 5y agomeat production and processung in the "developed" world isnt much better. in fact this might even be better because those cattle probably weren't raised in factory style density