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They care because the avocado industry is run by those drug cartels.
https://inteligencia.io/money/avocado-cartels/
Would you be surprised to find out that even Amazon is full of counterfeit makeup produced in China and often containing the sorts of bacteria that can cause serious damage to skin? The sort of shit that comes from human shit.
I learned about it thanks to Adam Ruins Everything on TruTV. The three sources used during the segment on avocados are as follows:
https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/the-real-cost-of-avocados-facts-and-health-economy
https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/massive-avocado-farm-extortion-highlights-mexico-vigilantes-cause/
https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/gvk3a7/why-mexican-cartels-want-in-on-the-food-business
Excerpt from the Vice piece.
I think one of the reasons people are attracted to stories about the cartels is their absurdity of it all—El Chapo's tunnels, lime cartels, etc. When writing about operations like the Cartel de Los Quesos, is it hard to remember that these are brutal and unforgiving criminals?
Yes, one of the points I try to make in the book is that we tend to talk about these guys in a slightly jokey way, when in fact they are utter scumbags. All the stuff about gold-plated machine guns and pet tigers is hilarious, of course. But these are also people who carry out mass murder and torture as part of their business model. I don't want to put your readers off their food, but cartels in Mexico behead their victims, skin them, burn them alive, kidnap their children, and send them back limb by limb … it is sickening. People in the US and Europe who buy their products ought to know that when they spend $100 on a gram of cocaine that is what they are paying for. I'm on the side of those who think that legalizing the lot would be the least-bad option. But as long as it remains illegal, and therefore in the hands of organized crime, buying cocaine is no better than sending a donation to ISIS. And don't think there's any possibility that your stuff is the "fair trade" variety. All the world's cocaine is managed by cartels that do this stuff. If you've ever bought coke, I'm afraid it's a certainty that you've contributed to the cost of someone dying a slow death in some basement in Mexico.