AceBusinessDesk – Last week, we alerted you to the problems in Mexico caused by Michoacán’s avocado cartel clearing forests & stealing water so we can eat Wholly Guacamole. (If you haven’t yet, take action here.)
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But, as I learned preparing that alert, it’s not just avocados. Driscoll’s strawberries are also driving deforestation & water theft in Mexico.
In Michoacán, the farmers around Lake Pátzcuaro say Driscoll’s has been digging illegal wells to irrigate its plastic-covered plantations and it was former Michoacán governor Silvano Aureoles who gave Driscoll’s government machinery to clear the land and drill the wells.
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The farmers claim that Aureoles profited personally from deals he made with Driscoll’s and that he promised special security to the berry producers and legal certainty so that they would continue their production. Today, all the land where the strawberries are grown is protected by heavily armed people.
“White guards, they call them, they bring large-caliber weapons, they have intimidated many of us, they have tried to uproot us,” a farmer quoted in 2021 by El Sol De Morelia said.
What about Driscoll’s Fair Trade and Organic strawberries?
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The Mexico Solidarity Project warns against buying Driscoll’s berries, even if they’re certified Fair Trade, because even though some of its Mexican workers have unionised, they still haven’t gotten a contract.
Likewise, Organic Eye doesn’t recommend Driscoll’s organic berries, which due to a rule change the company lobbied for, can be grown in plastic containers—without soil!
READ MORE: Driscoll Mexico’s Plasticberries: Stolen Water, Sweated Labor & Armed Guards
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