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:
Get Driscolls if you want fruit that tastes like tap water.
In general, buy local, in-season fruit where you can.
but you can see in the video, which apparently no one watched, that Driscoll’s organic ranked better than local by some preferences.
This is all because people expect fresh berries year around.
I didn’t rule out people liking water-tasting berries…
I did watch, the experiment was Driscoll v Driscoll v Driscoll v other brand, not a very scientific one. Since it’s all contractors you hardly know from the box, which farm it is coming from anyway. In my personal experience, the best tasting berries I’ve had are from Europe while I was visiting.
Their fruit really sucks. I refuse to buy it. Getting fresh blueberries from the farms this summer was the tits.
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.
I found this video interesting, and the farmer talking about how hard it is to get their berries into stores because why would the store deal with a bunch of farmers when they can deal with one company. So the issue isn’t just merging of all berries under one company but the merge of grocery stores under a handful of companies.
Indeed. I consider myself lucky that I live in a large city that has plenty of smaller grocery stores that are more focused on organic/natural/ethical produce. Some places only have Superstore or Walmart and I can’t help but think that someone took the JoJo mart route in Stardew Valley and I die a little inside.
I don’t know that reference :) Apparently I need to play Stardew Valley - it has been recommended.
Do it! It’s one of the best games ever made.
