Posted on 02/14/2022 4:51:33 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
he U.S. has suspended imports of Mexican avocados—as the lucrative fruit continues to play a key role in the turf wars between drug cartels.
Mexico's Agriculture Ministry said U.S. health authorities notified Mexico of their decision to suspend avocado shipments "until further notice" after a U.S. plant inspector working in Uruapan in Michoacán, a major producing region of avocados, received a threatening phone call.
In a statement, the ministry said the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services (APHIS) is carrying out an investigation "to assess the threat and determine the necessary mitigation measures to guarantee the physical integrity of all of its personnel working in Michoacán."
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico said "facilitating the export of Mexican avocados to the U.S. and guaranteeing the safety of our agricultural inspection personnel go hand in hand."
In a tweet on Sunday night, the embassy added: "We are working with the Mexican government to guarantee security conditions that would allow our personnel in Michoacán to resume operations."
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Avocado smuggling by wednesday.
Their only mistake: Not giving 10% to the big guy.
Avocado,
Why do you think you’re so holy,
You’re just guacamole,
To me...
Jeb! on suicide watch.
None at Costco today.
I’m eating one now just because I can.
Should hipstets be buying avacado toast futures?
Does this mean I am now stoned from eating my avocado omelet this morning?
Probably.
Have been seeing only the funny side of the news all day. Try it, you’ll like it.
As long as the Piranha Women don’t shut down the Avocado Jungle of Death again, we should be fine...
The best avocados come from Southern California. Bar none.
The mob had the artichoke market in NYC cornered at one time. No one cared then because only Italians ate them anyway.
I had a large purple skinned avocado tree on Guam. I couldn’t give them away, a few folks yes, but most of the fruit went to an old chamorro who raised a few hogs, they loved them. Oddly the people who ate avocados chunked them up and flavored with italian dressing.
I grow my own; one tree, more avocados than one man could ever eat.
details at link...
Should hipstets be buying avacado toast futures?
Not a hipster but locked in 200 cases at todays market for any hipsters we may encounter, out of kindness of course
Indeed. The Hass avocado originated a couple of miles from where I'm writing this.
Some low level thug doesn’t know that the USDA are bigger thugs with more leverage. What a maroon.
Related vegetable controversy.....
“The Untouchables” The Artichoke King (TV, Season One, Episode 8,1959) ////
A gangster who controls the produce market in New York has a colleague bumped off. But when the hit man he hired gets greedy, he has to get rid of him too.
I'm glad. At least somebody around here is happy.
I'm in Michigan and we can see some old weeds and grass under the snow when it melts, sometimes.
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