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The cartels are also extorting avocado farmers for a cut of their profits. It turns out that, if you have a lot of bad people in power, they find ways to do bad
by atwood22 4y ago
The cartels are also extorting avocado farmers for a cut of their profits. It turns out that, if you have a lot of bad people in power, they find ways to do bad things for personal enrichment.
- ct0 4y agoI stopped buying avocados for this reason. Its the only way to win.
- Scoundreller 4y agoEasy for you if you can just start and stop avocados whenever you like, but what about the rest of us addicts?
- robocat 4y agoWhy? You are punishing the avocado growers more than the cartels. Corruption is rife. Every single transaction you make in an economy contains a percentage of evil (example: surely you disagree with some of what your government does): how did you decide that avocados are beyond your limit and carrots are not?
- ct0 4y agoIts simply easier to track back the effects of the cartel in avacado's than anything else in my purchase radar. But mostly because of this story. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/08/monarch-butterflies-under-threat-mexico-aoe https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/08/monarch-... With the price of avocados pushing higher and higher, I think there is too much money in avocado the avocado trade. Farming is basically limited to specific areas. Lowering demand (how ever small) is making a measurable change that I fell like I am contributing to. Voting with my dollars is the only true ways to make a change. As much as this might "hurt" the farmers, it is also hurting the cartel.