Posted on 06/21/2024 7:13:28 PM PDT by thecodont
Be patient with your bag of unripened avocados, because they might become more difficult to find in grocery stores pretty soon.
According to a translated June 18 news release from U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar, two United States Department of Agriculture employees were attacked and detained while inspecting avocados in Michoacán, “the world’s leading producer” of the coveted fruit.
Though the inspectors have since been released, the department is halting avocado and mango inspections in the region as a safety measure. USDA press representatives told SFGATE via email that operations have been paused “until further notice.”
Salazar wrote that avocados will still be exported to the U.S. from other Mexican states, and that this pause will not affect produce currently in transit. Regardless, Daniel Sumner, a professor of agricultural and resource economics at UC Davis, said that fewer avocados overall could result in higher prices soon.
“The typical market response to a drop in imports would be for prices to rise to ration what little production is available to buyers who are willing to pay very high prices,” he told SFGATE via email. Overall, he anticipates that avocados will become more expensive if the disruption lasts longer than a week.
Mounting evidence also suggests that this could happen again, too.
While Michoacán Gov. Alfredo Ramirez Bedolla reportedly told Mexico’s Radio Formula that the USDA inspectors were never attacked or detained, plenty of reports point to the dangers of harvesting the lucrative fruit. For years now, news outlets have documented the corruption and violence that surrounds avocados, which have been dubbed the “green gold of Mexico.”
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Bill Gates have an insect alternative yet?
Avocados are grown in calif too
You could then indict Trump!
Indict Trump, or the sandwich he is holding?
Or both?
Yes, probably both.
Here’s a thought, go back to growing them in California. They’re way bigger and more delicious as well.
Take a number.
To each his own Avocado. I never got their appeal.
To me, most avocados I have eaten tasted like boiled newsprint paper. Maybe I have ruined my taste buds from years of pouring ketchup, karo syrup or Mae Ploys chilli sauce on everything that didn’t move.
..... I dunno about how they grow where u live but I am sure they can be grown indoors with a little TLC. I live in the Sunny Southwest where they are grown as crops but I believe there are sites online where you can learn how to grow the Avacados indoors ..... Good Luck.
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I buy avocados from CA sources. My tree is fruiting yet, though.
avocados are a relative new food for most of us....we can live without it...
This might be why- they are concealing drugs in them:
https://abc7chicago.com/drug-bust-cocaine-avocados-santa-marta-colombia/14573975/
College-age soy boys are weeping everywhere!
Tom Brady is deeply saddened.
California imports 15,000,000 avocados a week, border patrol would not let me bring 1 back from my vacation in central america, they took it and put me on a list, I have to go through food inspection any time I reenter the US now.
I used to grow my own avocados and mangoes when I lived in Florida. I would get fresh ones every day, put the pits in little pots to sprout them, and give the baby trees as gifts.
There is no need to get either fruit from Mexico and enrich the cartels.
Two for $5.00 in my store.
If you had a heater row tunnel - maybe. The cost of production would eat up the profits, though.
I stopped buying Avocados from Mexico, though. Supposedly the drug cartels have taken them over, strong-arming farmers, if not outright killing them and taking their crops. :(
Let’s Go, Brandon! *SPIT*
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