California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees after Del Monte collapses
2026-05-09 20:31 UTC
Replies (38)
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@jaykrown@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 17:13
Meanwhile rent is going up? Oil is more expensive? What an absolute shit show. Imagine getting paid to destroy production to keep profit margins up, god forbid anyone got a cheap peach.
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@tackleberry@thelemmy.club 2026-05-10 03:22
Capitalism would prefer people to starve if it is the surest way to protect profits.
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@Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-09 22:08
Ah yes. What a wonderfully efficient system capitalism is. So very good at utilizing resources.
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@whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2026-05-10 15:49
We can't predict the future but I'm in the camp that if we collectively get our shit together food will stop being a "everything I want now and always" to "eat what is local and in season first"
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@Treczoks@lemmy.world 2026-05-11 06:09
Will this reduce the farmers waste of water, and if so, how much?
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@greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-10 12:48
I heard in the original post that these peaches suck and that's why del monte is having problems. I'm all for saving trees, but if we're going to replace them with trees people want I'm all for that.
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@nul42@lemmy.ca 2026-05-10 02:11
Peaches of wrath
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@finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 02:49
Why not give them away to homeless people? Homeless people are often hungry, and would certainly not regret eating 30 to 40 peaches.
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@unabart@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-10 10:17
Damn. I love peaches*. Peaches and cream ice cream is mad delicious. Had a dessert once, ages ago, where the peaches were set on fire for a short bit. Also crazy good. Peaches lovers unite. Let’s go score some delicious peaches before they are burned away! * even canned peaches
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@schwim@piefed.zip 2026-05-09 20:40
Never put all your peaches in one basket.
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@Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-10 01:22
Might want to wait until after the global supply chain breaks down again before making this decision.
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@Blackout@fedia.io 2026-05-09 22:22
Grapes of Wrath 2 has been moved to Mexico
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@TachyonTele@piefed.social 2026-05-09 22:09
Serious question, how does cutting the trees save money vs not harvesting them? Aside from the handout money.
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@Elilol@fedinsfw.app 2026-05-09 22:16
Throw them away as they suggest its not like more than half the world is going hungry, oh wait, we are.
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@Elextra@literature.cafe 2026-05-10 03:07
Dude I would be so happy to take a peach tree myself if they let me and plant it at my house. I know its only 1 but sad so many are wasted.
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@its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-09 21:40
Please pull your pants up. Your ass is talking again.
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@TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 2026-05-09 21:53
Oh no, killing them? That’s much worse than torturing them until we kill them!! Think of all the needless suffering we would miss out on! Oh no. We better make sure not to fire the “turn the entire world vegan in an instant” Ray.
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@MolochHorridus@piefed.social 2026-05-09 21:21
More farm animals are slaughtered every year in current system than would be killed if all currently living farm animals were slaughtered all at once.
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@i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 2026-05-09 22:09
Boring troll.
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@Mongostein@lemmy.ca 2026-05-09 21:20
Explain?
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@drmoose@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 09:31
Here just to dogpile on the dumbest statement of the day. Hi mom!
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@EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2026-05-09 23:56
Wut? Those animals were sentenced to death the moment they were forced into existence. The actual goal is to stop reproducing them.
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@fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2026-05-09 22:30
What are you talking about?
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@als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-09 22:05
This a product of corporations owning the rights to certain species, not at all realted to people not wanting to kill animals for their pleasure.
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@khannie@lemmy.world 2026-05-09 23:56
Is that Grapes of Wrath? Edit: I should have read to the end :) I must give that another read.
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@drmoose@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 20:19
You think China is not capitalist? China that told it's citizens to: [please stop _competing_ so much](https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1822849-20250915.htm)?
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@resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 2026-05-10 01:26
Grapes Of Wrath 2: Okie Boogalooo?
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-05-10 06:17
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.
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@boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2026-05-10 15:41
Even if there's spare capacity at any of them, it'll be on the farmers themselves to pay for something they're going to give away for free. But I suspect the other canneries have already bought up the super cheap peaches and are canning them now that there's a hole in the market, filling up their spare capacity if they had any at all.
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-05-10 06:16
probably canned peaches market? whole peaches might come from different trees.
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@prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-05-10 12:50
Why would that surprise them? What a weirdly confrontational response to someone you ostensibly agree with...
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@ignotum@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 08:44
Wait, i don't understand, in what way would giving food to homeless people help the shareholders? Are the shareholders homeless?
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@finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 08:04
Aw, gosh, thanks for pointing that out. I hadn't even considered your point among my disdain for huge amounts of food going to waste that could otherwise have helped people. You can pat yourself on the virtue signal now.
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@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2026-05-10 12:26
Well, there a lot of places that are populated only because humanity had access to monstrous amounts of energy and power. AKA fossil fuels.
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@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2026-05-10 13:35
Pretty much. There will be significant changes in our species' living arrangements in the coming decades.
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@absquatulate@lemmy.world 2026-05-09 21:57
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth. There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
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@dan69@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 14:43
In the words of a favorite skit of mine: Let’s Pickle em!
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@daychilde@lemmy.world 2026-05-10 01:21
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.