Big corporations use all the fuel they want, as long as it makes them a profit....

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[–]ActuallyNot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Fruit gets shipped around.

It's because in a given area they need to be harvested in a narrow time band, because that's when they're ready. And now that the world has international trade, that means that you ship the excess to anywhere in the world.

There's alternatives. Have smaller pear orchards in Argentina. But in this case you lose economies of scale. Have everyone in Argentina eat only pears while they're in season locally, and none the rest of the year. But in this case you get sick of pears if you're Argentinian, and you can't get pears in the southern autumn in the rest of the world.

Shipping's not a bad solution. The greenhouse emissions (and other pollution) due to shipping should be better regulated, and the cost applied to the ship: That's something that the WTO should be focusing on.

[–]LatvianFaggot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The bees are dying

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah. Insects in general.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wonder what the economy of it looks like if you have a cannery actually on a ship that moves around to where the harvests are going on.