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:
Their strawberries are awful. Rock solid, not always fully ripe and red and with zero flavour. We stopped buying them.
The whole point of Driscolls is they provide fruit all year around.
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.