resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoCalifornia farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte collapseswww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square153linkfedilinkarrow-up1421arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1416arrow-down1external-linkCalifornia farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte collapseswww.independent.co.ukresipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square153linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 days agoUh huh, and that had nothing to do with capitalism or profits, right?
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 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.