The Terrifying Truth About Avocados

While junk food and meat are often painted in a very negative light by the booming healthy food industry, fruits vegetables and salat are praised for being natural and good for the environment. But is that actually true all the time? Ironically probably the trendiest new superfood of the last decade is also one of the most problematic ones - the Avocado. Sources: General: https://www.hunker.com/13428789/facts-on-avocado-tree-roots https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/magazine/the-fruit-of-global-trade-in-one-fruit-the-avocado.html http://www.cargohandbook.com/index.php/Avocados https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/12/hispters-handle-unpalatable-truth-avocado-toast https://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/blogs/avocado-chile-petorca-united-kingdom-village-drought https://www.avocado.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/SA-avo-production_02-2016.pdf Water/South Africa/ Chile: https://www.motherjones.com/food/2014/10/avocado-drought-chile-california/ https://qz.com/1281908/could-europes-insatiable-hunger-for-avocados-be-causing-a-drought-in-petorca-chile/ https://archive.org/details/DW_20180501_151500_Close_up_-_Avocado_-_Superfood_and_Environmental_Killer/start/360/end/420 https://www.uu.nl/en/news/drought-in-south-africa-caused-by-el-nino-human-action-and-climate-change https://qz.com/africa/1110143/cape-town-drought-and-water-shortage-in-south-africa-is-now-a-disaste/ Mexico: https://www.businessinsider.de/ap-mexico-deforestation-for-avocados-much-higher-than-thought-2016-10?r=US&IR=T www.geo-mexico.com/?p=2302 www.http://geo-mexico.com/?p=6568 https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2553&context=umialr https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/02/02/582086654/mexicos-avocado-capital-says-it-s-kicked-cartels-off-the-farm?t=1534248515103 Grafting/cloning: https://www.viverosbrokaw.com/aguacate_patrones_en.html https://phys.org/news/2012-04-avocado-rootstocks-high-performing-disease-tolerant.html http://ucanr.edu/sites/alternativefruits/files/121265.pdf German: https://www.zeit.de/2016/43/avocado-superfood-anbau-oekologie-trend http://www.freshplaza.de/artikel/14094/Uebersicht-Weltmarkt-Avocados https://www.nzz.ch/international/mexiko-die-avocado-und-das-organisierte-verbrechen-ld.1365161 http://www.taz.de/!5339410/ http://www.drogenmachtweltschmerz.de/2017/12/wie-in-tancitaro-eine-buergerwehr-aus-avocadobauern-ein-drogenkartell-vertrieb/ https://www.daserste.de/information/wirtschaft-boerse/plusminus/sendung/swr/avocado-wahnsinn-100.html https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/705677/umfrage/hauptimportlaender-von-avocados/ Music by Jay Man Tracks used: http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/Flirting-With-Love http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/Tender-for-a-Moment http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/time-with-you http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/past-reflections http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/Different-Being http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/letting-go http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/web-of-deceit http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/no-momentum http://ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/modern-warriors and Author: Kevin MacLeod Website - http://incompetech.com/ Royalty Free Link - http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Genre Link - http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Song - "Night Cave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Thanks for watching. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...