resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days agoCalifornia farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte collapseswww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square154linkfedilinkarrow-up1423arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: usa@midwest.socialusa@lemmy.mlnews@lemmings.world
arrow-up1418arrow-down1external-linkCalifornia farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte collapseswww.independent.co.ukresipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days agomessage-square154linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: usa@midwest.socialusa@lemmy.mlnews@lemmings.world
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·21 days agoUh huh, and that had nothing to do with capitalism or profits, right?
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 days agoWell, in this case those profits might be modeling a real world situation. If Del Monte was pushing canned Peaches more than people needed/wanted, then changing the farms from one crop to another isn’t necessarily a horrible thing.
Uh huh, and that had nothing to do with capitalism or profits, right?
Well, in this case those profits might be modeling a real world situation. If Del Monte was pushing canned Peaches more than people needed/wanted, then changing the farms from one crop to another isn’t necessarily a horrible thing.