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A Boring Dystopia
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From the article, it seems like they just have no way to process them. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t see any sort of obligation to destroy these trees, they just need the farmland back to grow something they can actually sell.
The plant is still there and can process them but the demand has evaporated. The reason: Del Monte was fucking stupid.
Peaches are climacteric. When they ripen they naturally produce the plant hormone ethylene. This triggers a complex ripening process where aromas and volatiles are produced (aka flavor). It also causes rapid softening of the fruit and makes canning them much more difficult.
So what are clingstone peaches. These are peach varieties that have been selected for the down regulation of ethylene production and response. They are hard, sweet, but mostly flavorless, and do not separate from the seed (stone). They ship and process well because of their firmness but taste like shit.
So Del Monte produced good looking but shitty tasting product (extra tin can flavor) and the demand dried up over the years.
Why? Did this happen and why did they go bankrupt? They were allowed to become a regional monopoly.
Can't say I blame them for trying. Selling larger, more robust, and flavourless varieties worked on us with both chicken and tomatoes. The first time I tried a garden tomato was eye-opening. Would love to track down one of the farms selling the old chicken breeds as well, but I hear those are pretty expensive.
My heritage breeds grow slower and have less butcher weight than industrial farm raised chickens. The longer it takes to reach market weight the more feed I have to buy, so yeah, they're easily twice as expensive per pound. Its insane how cheap they're able to sell chicken. It gives people sticker shock when they see my price per pound. :(