417
California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte collapses
(www.independent.co.uk)
Grapes of Wrath 2 has been moved to Mexico
this post was submitted on 09 May 2026
417 points (98.8% liked)
Not The Onion
21466 readers
1551 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, ableist, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Serious question, how does cutting the trees save money vs not harvesting them? Aside from the handout money.
My uneducated take: Leaving the trees means you can't plant something else to make money. Leaving the harvest just means peaches will eventually drop on the ground and rot because there's no reason to harvest them since there's nobody willing to buy them.
It'd be nice if they could organize some sort of program to harvest enough to send them out to food banks everywhere and figure out how much they needed to do that. Or even figure out how to buy them at a price that makes sense from the farmers - this final season, adn then perhaps help them to get new crops going. Or maybe wind it all down over a few years, paying to can and send them to food banks......
......but we live in a nation where the party in control absolutely will not help anyone in need, and even our other party takes enough money from corporate interests that they will only help us as a last resort. Sooooo....... there's that.
logistics of delivering to food banks is probably cost prohibitive, its easier to "destroy it" and get free money form the govt, which they incentivize it.
load more comments
(11 replies)
Ah! I hadn't heard about Del Monte. That's a loss. I may only be buying store brands these days, but still, they've been a staple during my lifetime. I hope this is not the harbinger to further damage to our food chain - food is already expensive right now.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Throw them away as they suggest its not like more than half the world is going hungry, oh wait, we are.