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Legalizing avocados only way close down cartels.


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2019 Nov 20, 6:13pm   712 views  10 comments

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The cartel members showed up in this verdant stretch of western Mexico armed with automatic weapons and chainsaws.
Soon they were cutting timber day and night, the crash of falling trees echoing throughout the virgin forest. When locals protested, explaining that the area was protected from logging, they were held at gunpoint and ordered to keep quiet.
Stealing wood was just a prelude to a more ambitious plan.
The newcomers, members of a criminal group called the Viagras, were almost certainly clearing the forest to set up a grow operation. They wouldn't be planting marijuana or other crops long favored by Mexican cartels, but something potentially even more profitable: avocados.
Mexico's multibillion-dollar avocado industry, headquartered in Michoacan state, has become a prime target for cartels, which have been seizing farms and clearing protected woodlands to plant their own groves of what locals call "green gold."

https://apple.news/ACg0ObisnQgWvRXXBrDU4Gg

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1   ignoreme   2019 Nov 20, 7:28pm  

How do I get in on the toast farms?
2   NuttBoxer   2019 Nov 21, 7:00am  

So it takes seven years before an avocado tree actually produces. You're telling me these cartel guys think they'll live long enough to see profits from newly planted groves? Apple news must be sourcing the Onion again...
3   Al_Sharpton_for_President   2019 Nov 21, 7:14am  

Its a gateway vegetable!
4   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2019 Nov 21, 7:19am  

Commiecados
5   RWSGFY   2019 Nov 21, 7:42am  

NuttBoxer says
So it takes seven years before an avocado tree actually produces. You're telling me these cartel guys think they'll live long enough to see profits from newly planted groves? Apple news must be sourcing the Onion again...


"Reading is fundamental".
6   NuttBoxer   2019 Nov 21, 12:11pm  

Liberal_in_blackface says
"Reading is fundamental".


So is privacy..
7   RWSGFY   2019 Nov 21, 12:45pm  

NuttBoxer says
Liberal_in_blackface says
"Reading is fundamental".


So is privacy..


Reading the actual article doesn't infringe on the reader's privacy in any way, shape or form.
8   NuttBoxer   2019 Nov 21, 4:30pm  

Liberal_in_blackface says
Reading the actual article doesn't infringe on the reader's privacy in any way, shape or form.


9   RWSGFY   2019 Nov 21, 5:31pm  

NuttBoxer says
Liberal_in_blackface says
Reading the actual article doesn't infringe on the reader's privacy in any way, shape or form.




Weird. I don't have subscription to that shit and it didn't ask me to subscribe. Oh well.
10   NuttBoxer   2019 Nov 22, 9:05am  

I think it's the incognito part, which is why I mentioned privacy. And all I do is set firefox to never remember anything when it closes.

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