The World is Fucked
The World is Fucked
Out of context: Reply #74
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- mort_13
- "Designed in California. Assembled in Vietnam."grafician
- I love the New Zealand honey from Sainsbury’s. But we don’t really need to import honey from the exact opposite side of the world - just because we canIanbolton
- This says more about shipping cost than anything else.shapesalad
- The tweet is true but also you can make a dent by buying whole pears instead of this plastic cup of juice, you idiotnb
- lets hope he paid with bitcoin ... one transaction = co2 amount of 1000 intercontinental flights... so groovy ..neverscared
- At first I read it as "grown in Argentina, PICKED in Thailand". LOL.Krassy
- https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
- He should figure out where it was printed, the inks used on the label - come from chemicals where? The plastic is from? Oil from?shapesalad
- Welcome to the global 2000's. Sadly won't last forever, too much reliance on safe ocean passage using oil guzzling ships.shapesalad
- Global shipping logistics are insanely efficient though. Would just be nice if they moved over to sustainable power sources, and then we can all be guilt-free.Nairn
- I wonder how this bizarre combination came about. Is it about cutting costs? Or providing unnatural availability of the fruit all year round?mort_
- Or just complete lack of joined up thinking?mort_
- Clearly the environment wasn’t even a consideration.mort_
- All of the above.
Money doesn't think, it just does.Nairn - It's actually, i think - and, somewhat perversely - a sign of incredibly joined-up thinking. A main reason we have slightly empty shelves here in the UK...Nairn
- ...is because we have an incredibly efficient logistics system - world-leading, in fact - that leads to low prices and.. when shit hits the fan, implosion.Nairn
- Clearly there's a business case for taking Argentinian-grown seconds and processing them elsewhere, to sell elsewhere still.. and then, profit. At all levels.Nairn
- It's not like this shit's new. South West Spain was a centre-point for producing garum, etc, which was then shipped Eastward to ancient Rome.Nairn
- Difference then is that the carbon impact was basically the cost of decimating trees to make ships.Nairn
- Actually, the cost too of chopping wood to cook clay amphorae. Hence why the mediterranean is a deforested soon to be desert. Yaay.Nairn
- corporations outsmarted humans... only they ingored their enviromental desastrous impact of their reckless programm and now its going to burn us down...neverscared
- Most American fish are caught off the coast of America, shipped and processed in China and then resent back to the U.S. – Greed is good!utopian
- All you boys marveling at your own assumption that this is the result of brilliant logistics... lol. It’s because the shitty leftover pears are used in these cupsnb
- and whales are run over by the big cargo ships. cargo ships dump their shit into the open oceanhotroddy
- I doubt pears are being flown anywhere. Only bluefin Tuna gets that treatmenthotroddy
- I suppose there are only so many pears argentines can eat before they go bad, a few they could ship to neighbouring countries to enjoy but the vast majoriy_niko
- ...Need to be preserved or juiced but why not set up shop in Argentina instead of shipping shiploads to Thailand?_niko
- @nb, perhaps that's why I said 'seconds', LOL!!!!Nairn
- Perhaps if you weren't so caught up in your self-importance you'd actually read what other people write, LOL!!!! You pillock.Nairn
- At the end of the day, the vast majority of people in UK just shops and consume foods with little to no thought.shapesalad
- Hence you see so many fatties, and products like this are made and sell.shapesalad
- Where as I always do two things when I pick up an item in a supermarket - check ingredients, check origin.shapesalad
- If ingredients contain sugar or other shit, I put it back. If origin is eg, green veg grown in kenya, herbs from morocco - I put it back. If veg from UK, ok.shapesalad
- But I see everyone else mindlessly fill their trollies with junk, processed shit, sugary shit, with no care to the providence.shapesalad
- And then they wonder why their ass needs a sign saying 'Wide Load'...shapesalad
- I don't know. Maybe schools need to teach nutrition and impact of globalised food production, dangers of processed shit...shapesalad
- https://reason.com/2…utopian
- LOL @ Freedumb Fightin' Muricans.utopian
- This has been going on for 20+ years in the UK. eg M&S flying asparagus to N Africa to be tied up, packed, and back again...MrT
- Scottish rasperries supplied a supermarket chain but not available in the store next to field they're grown in.MrT
- It is about logistics, but the metrics/targets they're based on are fucked. I don't buy fresh anything at supermarkets and haven't for two decades. Smug prick.MrT
- It's called Capitalism...ask Captain America!utopian
- I don't watch Marvel either!MrT