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I Tracked Down the Company [Driscolls] Ruining Fruit (www.youtube.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/70351765

Cross posted from https://lemmy.zip/post/70351759

America’s biggest berry empire doesn’t actually grow berries.

Driscoll’s is the middleman that controls the genetics, reaps the profits, and then shifts blame.

A whistleblower alleges the Canadian government repeatedly flagged their berries for exceeding pesticide limits.

I think this is the organization mentioned in the video:

https://causenow.org/

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[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago

Their strawberries are awful. Rock solid, not always fully ripe and red and with zero flavour. We stopped buying them.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

The whole point of Driscolls is they provide fruit all year around.

[-] snoons@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Which would be great if they weren't so focused on profit over everything (capitalism, amiright) and actually provided a good service. Instead it's coin toss between getting toxic, flavourless crap or an edible berry that won't give you ass cancer.