Unholy Guacamole: Deforestation, Water Capture, and Violence Behind Mexico's Avocado Exports

[CousinIT]

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More than 10 football fields' worth of Mexican forest are cleared daily for avocado production — including those of the world-famous Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. Monarchs are plunging toward extinction already. Losing their winter home in Mexico could be the final blow.

https://cri.org/reports/unholy-guacamole/

[panfluteman]

1. I Knew a Lady in the Quaint Little Town of Tinguindin, in Central Michoacan,

Who lived in the middle of what seemed to be endless Avocado fields...

[harumph]

2. I will no longer purchase Mexican avocados.

This is a sad day.

[DFW]

3. I can finally feel good

Namely about the fact that I have always hated avocados.

My dad always said they taste like soap. I was less generous with my comparison.

[CousinIT]

4. I don't like them either but I know many who do.

It seems the majority of them in the US come from stolen land, stolen labor, stolen water and over-deforestation in Mexico.