This is the famous post I missed, I was traveling at the time, also not entirely mindful and for personal pleasure and curiosity… (I know, guilty as charged 
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The entire supply-chain knows of your love for avocados. The demand of avocados created by richer countries is so huge and obvious that farmers in Latin America opt to grow avocados instead of other crops. They know that with avocados their harvest will be sold at a good price and make them a bigger profit. Unfortunately, in Mexico (the largest producer of avocados), the possibility of making a bigger profit is obvious to the cartels as well, who then demand avocado farmers to give them a bigger share of their profit. If not, the farmers’ lives and families are in danger. Profits made from the harmless trade of selling avocados end up fueling cartels’ crimes, and the source of the extra income — avocados — are therefore renamed “blood avocados”.
Not to mention that avocadoes are water intensive and leave poorer communities without a sustainable water supply…
I never really understood this trend of ‘ours’ to love avocados and go to a lengthy extent to get it. I know not many ‘new vegetables’ that became so regular and trendy within years! Do you know?
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