> Did she mean the water it was grown with? If she did, yeah that's ridiculous. That water has to seep through the earth, so what does it matter? Why need to dump potable water? Also, a whole nation and more are living off that produce.
Yeah, but at the same time irrigation using sprinklers is going to coat the produce with whatever's left behind from the water evaporating.
Personally I think she was on the crazy+racist end of the spectrum.
But the point is, if you for whatever reason reject Mexican produce, that's actually a substantial removal of produce from your table in the US today. Especially on the low-income end, but even at the last Whole Foods I visited in IL all the Avocados, organic and conventional, were from Mexico. It's odd to me since my last FL visit included football sized Avocados grown locally, it's not like we can't grow them here.
> Yeah, but at the same time irrigation using sprinklers is going to coat the produce with whatever's left behind from the water evaporating.
Same as it happens when people wash their veggies at home, or use their dishes they've washed with the tap. Nobody worries about consuming small amounts. You know, it might not even be a big deal to drink from it, it's just not done. It's not that it's guaranteed to be undrinkable, it's just not guaranteed to be drinkable, and there's a difference between consuming a few milliliters to consuming a few liters.
I'm not personally concerned about it, it's just easy to see how someone could convince themselves it's a worry, especially when they want it to be for racist reasons.
> it's just easy to see how someone could convince themselves it's a worry
Trying to make sense of it for myself, I can only imagine it's from believing the reason they're healthy is because they live in a perfectly sterile environment, instead of it being simply because their bodies can handle the impurities of their environment.
Yeah, but at the same time irrigation using sprinklers is going to coat the produce with whatever's left behind from the water evaporating.
Personally I think she was on the crazy+racist end of the spectrum.
But the point is, if you for whatever reason reject Mexican produce, that's actually a substantial removal of produce from your table in the US today. Especially on the low-income end, but even at the last Whole Foods I visited in IL all the Avocados, organic and conventional, were from Mexico. It's odd to me since my last FL visit included football sized Avocados grown locally, it's not like we can't grow them here.