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"We Can't Give Our Product Away" - Farmers Toss Thousands Of Acres Of Fruits, Veggies As Sales Plummet
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 78772436:MV80MzQ4MzQzXzc5MTU1NTMxX0UxMTUxREY2] [quote:Centurionx:MV80MzQ4MzQzXzc5MTQ5NTUzXzJFRjc0RDU0] [quote:MarkinAZ:MV80MzQ4MzQzXzc5MTQ5NDI5XzgwQTE1OEJB] This kind of stupid greed is unacceptable. YES, better to give the produce away than to let it rot! People will be hungry soon. Use what bounty you've been given. If you cannot sell it at the usual profit, then it is vastly better to allow people to pick it and use it. [/quote] I think that's what they're saying That they can't even give the shit away, not that they won't. Since food banks ate well stocked from restaurant donations.. Couldn't they just can/freeze all that shit ? I suppose that's not the farmers province though [/quote] If local farmers told me. We have fresh produce, come pick it. I would get enough and feed myneighbors etc. [/quote]
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As some misguided liberals complain about fruits "left rotting on the trees" because Trump's immigration crackdown has left no undocumented migrants to pick the vegetables (a demonstrably false assumption), the Associated Press has offered an explanation for this phenomenon that also illustrates how disruptions in the businesses like the hospitality and food-service industry work their way through the supply chain, ultimately sticking farmers in the American Farm Belt with fields of vegetables that they can't sell, or even donate as local food pantries are now full-up with donations from restaurants.
The AP started its story in Palmetto, Fla. a city in Manatee County on the Gulf Coast, where a farmer had dumped piles of zucchini and other fresh vegetables to rot
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