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Avocados on the house
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this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
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You do know how much water is wasted to produce avocados, right? 💧
You do know how much water is wasted to produce comments like this, right?
Real talk, a lot of keyboard environmentalists would be surprised to know how much electricity the innocent little internet uses.
Almonds?
No, avocados. Try to keep up, mate.
You can take my almonds and my beef, but not avocados. That’s the line.
I accept your almonds and beef.
If I stop buying them, will that solve a problem?
Did a bit of googling. Found this article:
https://www.greenmatters.com/p/avocado-environmental-impact
Looks like the main issue is that they tend to be grown in areas that may be prone to drought, so there's a concern that they may deprive the community of water.
The same article also says:
"Monoculture crops like avocados wind up drawing all the nutrients from the soil, slowly degrading it year after year. This makes the soil less fertile over time until it is no longer viable for growing".
So yeah, buying avocados is pretty much a sin against nature.
That's just irresponsible farming. It can happen with almost any crop.
To a degree, yes.