In reply to alfadriver:
That's in part due to the labor and processing cost of local produce. I support locally grown stuff whenever possible, swmbo and I frequent 2 local farmers markets and a local farm that has a full grocery store. I look at it this way as well, keeping the local farms in business prevents the land from being developed into a soulless preplanned community. Now just to convince the farmers to allow use to use a field or 2 for rally cross when it's not growing season.
Streetwiseguy wrote:mndsm wrote: Potentially millions of cucumbers. Probably sold at like 12c each or some nonsense.So, the grower, or the undocumented slave labour that picked it takes the bat up the ass, then.
The grower is at the bottom end, to be sure. And really, there isn't a ton of undocumented slave labor anymore. Most vegetables can be harvested by machine. It's really only tree based fruit that you see a lot of that. And strawberries. Come January, Florida will be thick with cut off school buses that they use for orange picking, and straight full of cheap labor.
HappyAndy wrote: Some fruits and veggies are shipped in containers with a special gas that preserves the produce by displacing the oxygen, there by keeping it from ripening or decaying in transit. I don't know how common the practice is, but it's definitely a thing.
Yes - I've heard they pack produce in nitrogen or carbon dioxide, and it keeps a lot longer. There are apparently a few crops that are air shipped, like some pineapples, but usually they just find a way to keep the temperature and air in the shipping container at a point they can keep it somewhat fresh on a container ship.
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