Please Stop Destroying Mexican Forests

[Anonymous No.13679640]

AMERICAN AVOCADO DEMAND IS CAUSING MASS DEFORESTATION IN MEXICO

https://www.newsweek.com/global-avocado-demand-causes-deforestation-mexico-489459

Demand for avocados is fueling deforestation in central Mexico due to high price the fruits fetch. In the mountains of Michoacan, the state that produces the majority of Mexico's avocados, farmers have illegally destroyed swathes of forests, cutting down pine and fir trees in order to plant more lucrative avocado trees instead.

"Even where they [the farmers] aren't visibly cutting down forest, there are avocados growing underneath [the pine boughs], and sooner or later they'll cut down the pines completely," Mario Tapia Vargas, a researcher at Mexico's National Institute for Forestry, Farming and Fisheries Research, told the Associated Press.

The impact on wildlife, particularly monarch butterflies, has already been felt across the region.

Humans will suffer too, according to Greenpeace Mexico, a charity working to defend the natural world and confront environmental abuse.

[Anonymous No.13679645]

"Beyond the displacement of forests and the effects on water retention, the high use of agricultural chemicals and the large volumes of wood needed to pack and ship avocados are other factors that could have negative effects on the area's environment and the wellbeing of its inhabitants,"

[Anonymous No.13679666]

> Mexico's avocado boom causing deforestation and illnesses in local population

“The sneezing doesn't stop when they are fumigating,” said Carmona, a stocky 36-year-old mother of two who works at a small grocery store in Jujucato, a village in the heart of avocado land.

In the 15 years that Salvador Sales has been teaching in Jujucato, he has seen his students come down with more and more breathing and stomach problems.

“We believe this is caused by the products used to spray the avocado orchards,” said Sales, who believes that the wind blows the chemical fumes into the homes of his students.

Experts warn that the chemicals used in mountain orchards may be spilling down into ground water, streams, rivers and lakes, and subsequently causing illnesses among the population.

Alberto Gomez Tagle, an expert on the environment in the Lake Zirahuen region, which includes Jujucato, said many communities that rely on the lake water may already be suffering from the effects of chemical runoff.

One lakeside village asked researchers for help when residents began to suffer from liver and kidney problems that did not exist until “the avocado orchards expanded and all types of pesticides were used,” Gomez Tagle said.

[Anonymous No.13679682]

Trump.

[Anonymous No.13679698]

>>13679666
how massive must Carmona be to be particularly stocky for a Indio matriarch?
Most of them look like angry faces painted on barrels already, so her girth must be truly impressive.

[Anonymous No.13679700]

>>13679640
Tell this to the Mexicans, Americans are not cutting down their forests for them. Mexicans getting greedy grow a cash crop for american bucks at the expense of their own forests is a US problem how?

[Anonymous No.13679708]

Third worlders destroying their country. What else is new?

[Anonymous No.13679724]

Apparently the cartels are getting into the game in a big way too. Fuck avocados, I havent bought a single one since the idiotic hype started.Next year it will be some other idiotic fruit and the avocado trees will be cut down again before they have borne fruit even a single time in order to try and grow the next meme fruit. Fuck hipsters and boomers.

[Anonymous No.13679760]

>>13679640
NO NOT MY HECKIN PINERINOS!!!!!!!! NOT MY FORESTERINOS!!! NOT MT MY BUTTERFLYRINOS!! NOT MY SPICERINOS!!

DRUMPHIE YOU DID THIS U FUCKING WALL DAMN uuu!!!

[Anonymous No.13679840]

>>13679640
fuck mexico
avocado are delicious

[Anonymous No.13679854]

>>13679640
>People want to buy avocados.
>Third worlders destroy their own enviroment out of greed.
>This is the fault of people who want to buy avocados.

Wut?

[Anonymous No.13679857]

>>13679640
how many times will you post this thread before you are satisfied

[Anonymous No.13679860]

>>13679724
It’s literally all the cartel

[Anonymous No.13679869]

>>13679640
I was getting my avocados from Florida, but if the Mexicans are destroying their own resources, I might switch

[Anonymous No.13679922]

I thought american liberals were supposed to care about the environment & 'saving the world'?

Turns out that's all just bullshit.

[Anonymous No.13680596]

>>13679854
>>This is the fault of people who want to buy avocados.

Do you understand why buying Blood Diamonds is bad?

[Anonymous No.13680602]

>>13680596
Yes, because it puts funds in the hands of rebels and guerilla fighters. But the same diamonds, mined in the same conditions by the locals not under duress are fine, despite the massive damage and poor conditions. So it's not about the ecological damage or slave labour because that's present in every damn third world mining and agricultural industry.

[Anonymous No.13680604]

>>13679922
The crazy thing about all this is liberals could have had it all if they just didn’t reject the incels, but they didn’t and now their beliefs are dead

[Anonymous No.13680612]

>>13680596
>I, a random customer want to buy an avocado.
>Third world farmer: FUCK YEAH, LET ME CUT DOWN A FOREST AND SPRAY HARMFUL CHEMICALS AROUND rather than, say, farm normally.

[Anonymous No.13680614]

>>13680596
The ironic thing is that you're proving his point. Diamonds can be mined perfectly ethically and sustainably. But third world shitholes don't care about that.

[Anonymous No.13680623]

>>13679640
I don't even eat avocado, that shits gross, fuck you.

[Anonymous No.13680666]

>>13680602
I've always wondered, why the fuck did diamonds and gold become valuable, they are just fucking rocks. Seems like a mass hysteria hyped by our friendly neighborhood (((scapegoats))).

[Anonymous No.13680714]

Sticking with Caribbean avocados, thankyouverymuch.

[Anonymous No.13680747]

As a Mexican I say fuck off: most avocado growers are legitimate businesses giving jobs to people in rural areas, your "well meaning activism" is useless. This is an internal regulatory matter.

[Anonymous No.13680751]

>>13680714
The best avocados come from Hawaii

[Anonymous No.13681079]

>>13680596
>Do you understand why buying Blood Diamonds is bad?*

*In your opinion.

[Anonymous No.13681085]

Avocados are destroying Mexico? Wtf I love avocados now!

[Anonymous No.13681095]

fuck mexico fuck capitalism and fuck socialists

[Anonymous No.13681125]

>globalism good

[Anonymous No.13683168]

>>13681095
huh?

[Anonymous No.13683170]

Oh no not the freaking trees which are fucking useless.

[Anonymous No.13683175]

>>13680666
Gold is a good conductor.
Diamonds are really hard and have usage in cutting instruments.

[Anonymous No.13683870]

>>13679640
Good. Fuck Mexico. Gonna go eat some avocados now.

[Anonymous No.13683952]

>>13679640
For every avocado I eat, I eat less of something else and avocado has a pretty good yield per hectare.

The problem is not avocados, but overpopulation.

[Anonymous No.13683974]

>>13683952
I agree, more humans cause more food demand. But people just breed mindlessly with no logic so its irrelevant

[Anonymous No.13684025]

>>13679724
why is this written as though avocados just blew up this year?

[Anonymous No.13684118]

>>13684025
Probably the surge in Veganism, "for the environment" lol. Avocadoes are the only vegan food which is both satisfying and delicious, so vegans plow ahead destroying every remaining forest in Mexico.

[Anonymous No.13684129]

Fuck Mexico. I'm gonna go buy a whole crate of avocados right now

[Anonymous No.13684130]

>>13679640
Take it up with the cartel is all I can tell ya

[Anonymous No.13684149]

>>13680666
Gold never tarnishes and because it is a soft metal it is easy to rework.
Diamonds are very hard.
Both look pretty.

[Anonymous No.13684153]

>>13680751
Best avocado I've had was in Australia near Brisbane. You can buy them at the farm gate by the box

[Anonymous No.13684201]

>>13680666
Gold has always been valuable due to its perceived magical/divine properties .
Diamonds used to be pretty rare before geologists figured out that you mine tons of them dead volcanoes, at least until the de Beers conglomerate came around to form a trust to prevent the collapse in price.

[Anonymous No.13684205]

>>13679640
guacamole is bretty good tho

[Anonymous No.13684223]

>>13684118
>blaming this on veganism
My anti vegan family buys avocados daily. I buy cashew based mozzarella and never bought avocados as a vegan.
False flagging

[Anonymous No.13684229]

>>13684223
Alright, what can we blame on veganism?

[Anonymous No.13684274]

>>13684229
since anon mentioned cashews
https://youtu.be/F7o8OrstCAw

[Anonymous No.13684549]

>>13684274
It's okay, machines are putting them all out of a job.

[Anonymous No.13684961]

>>13684229
The death of once-healthy beautiful child-stars.

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-51457456

[Anonymous No.13686539]

>dead mexicans
Absolutely based. I'm going to significantly increase my consumption of avocados. Stay seething, Paco.

[Anonymous No.13686551]

>>13683170
NOOOOOOO NOT THE HECKIN' FORESTIRINOS!!!! THE LEAFY GOODBOYS!!!