Facts about the much-vaunted avocado
Here are some facts about the much-vaunted avocado. For 1 kg avocado 1000 liters of water are needed. You have to let it melt on your tongue!
Due to the rapidly growing export to Europe, huge monocultures are being created in the producer countries. The groundwater level drops. Villages in the growing areas are supplied with drinking water by tank trucks. Do you want to get bottled drinking water in canisters once a week and schedule them until the next delivery? So on the side, so even laundry must be washed and the body care be done. Whole regions sanded. Rivers dry up. Is this "health mania" worthwhile, to pillage peasants in Central and South America, who only live a miserable life, into poverty?
It's the same with quinoa and other "fashion products". So far, I did not know that we are so hungry in a Germany that we humans, whether Central / South America, Asia, Africa by exploiting their agricultural products need and endanger their livelihoods. Well, lifestyle.
This should not be a reproach, just to encourage thought. No, I'm not a green guy. I am a realist. I know Mexico. Children, even from the poorest families, are always clean and neatly dressed. This is very important, even if the families can hardly afford anything. Is just saved from the mouth. And these people, we also exploit the rich.
I do not want to make any judgment here about the purchasing behavior of the Germans, explicitly not that of the local members. I want to shake up, nothing more and nothing less. To make consumers aware of the conditions under which agricultural products, which we put in the cart in passing, are produced.
Have you ever wondered where the strawberries came from in November? Where the roses for the sweetheart were drawn on Christmas Eve? Make yourself smart. Land grabbing is the answer. And the dispossessed Africans who come to Germany are then economic refugees, only want to plunder our social funds.
