How Your Avocado Toast Is Funding Mexican Drug Cartels

Civilized Life ^ | Jan 10, 2019 | Brandon Hicks

[fishtank]

Alamogordo, NM

[trisham]

I love avocados, but not the ones with smooth skins.

[Steven Tyler]

Tell the hipsters this dirty secret about their precious electric cars

https://blog.ucsusa.org/josh-goldman/electric-vehicles-batteries-cobalt-and-rare-earth-metals

Cobalt and electric vehicle batteries

Cobalt, a bluish-gray metal found in the Earth’s crust, is one of today’s preferred components used to make the lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, cell phones, and EVs. ... but 50 to 60 percent of the global supply comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has a poor human rights track record. ...around 40,000 children are involved in cobalt mining in DRC where they make only $1 – $2 USD per day. ...the U.S. Labor Department lists Congolese cobalt as a product it has reason to think is produced by child labor.

[Leep]

Why did someone put a big pistachio nut
in Alamogordo Nm?

[READINABLUESTATE]

I don’t care about avocados or pistachios. I want to know where all the Braille nuts went. Haven’t seen one in a few years now.

[Leep]

I will eat some crap and then get back to you. :)

Really I like food.
There’s only about a half a dozen foods I don’t like or won’t eat.
Don’t like snails, shad, limburger cheese
Won’t eat testicles, sperm, eyes,worm type bugs.

[moovova]

In other news...

“Drug cartels have begun smuggling avocados across the southern border.”

[READINABLUESTATE]

Braille= Brazille

[nomifyle]

I love avocados, plain, mashed and on on toast.

[Exit148]

I had to look it up, too. Looks interesting, but I wouldn’t miss it if avocados weren’t available. Cream cheese and jelly is always around.

[MayflowerMadam]

“The first lapel buttons for some cause like Cancer or whatever? Those were fine. Pretty soon you had these idiots FESTOONED with them.”

So 17 pieces of flair would be too much?

[MayflowerMadam]

“I hate Avacado’s! Guacamole sucks! Am I the only one...”

I used to hate avocados, and gagged the first time I tried one in college. Now I love them! DH thinks they’re disgusting and won’t even consider trying them.

[Vaduz]

How Your Avocado Toast Is Funding Mexican Drug Cartels

And the democrats are doing a lot to help them too open door to the USA.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[oldtech]

This works for me....don’t eat the stuff anyway(intentionally at least)

[real saxophonist]

Cooking with pain sprays. I’ll have to try that. Might help a few things.

[central_va]

Only the mentally ill think that avocados have anything to do the the invasion of the USA from central America. This is so stupid. Please quit talking about this stupid gooey fruit thing.

This is embarrassing. How f-ing trivial.

[gnarledmaw]

It might be true but have you ever watched that show? It should be called “Adam is often full of ####”.

[gnarledmaw]

They are kept hoarded in a big warehouse until they go rancid then they get sent to my grocer.

[fishtank]

because they grow them there.........

[trebb]

Since Kalifornia is also a producer, I agree...America doesn’t need them.