On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:37:06 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 11/24/2019 3:54 PM, Je?us wrote:
>> On Sun, 24 Nov 2019 12:48:25 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>>
>>> Of course you don't want to support the drug cartels, but, the little
>>> guy planting and harvesting also gets hurt. No simple answer.
>>
>> You just keep buying as you did before, farmers still benefit. Simple.
>>
>
>I've only ever bought 3 avocado in my life so I'm not going to change
>the world.
>I guess there are many moral/ethical/ecological consequences in
>everything we buy. I'm now living in Florida that has many square miles
>of orange groves. The supermarket still has oranges trucked in from
>California. It took a lot of diesel fuel to bring them. There are
>potato farms about 3 miles from me but Idaho russets are available.
>Right axross from the grapes shipped from Chile.

If you want to buy with a conscience, you should probably avoid
almonds. Both in Australia and, I believe, California, almond
production uses incredible amounts of water that the land can't
afford.