America would run out of avocados in three weeks if Trump shuts down the U.S.-Mexico border
Reuters,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: StormCnter,
4/1/2019 12:53:07 PM
President Donald Trump´s threat to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border would hit American consumers — in the gut. From avocado toast to margaritas, the United States is heavily reliant on Mexican imports of fruit, vegetables and alcohol to meet consumer demand. Nearly half of all imported U.S. vegetables and 40 percent of imported fruit are grown in Mexico, according to the latest data from the United States Department of Agriculture. Americans would run out of avocados in three weeks if imports from Mexico were stopped, said Steve Barnard, president and chief executive
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MainelySane 4/1/2019 12:54:33 PM (No. 20075)
We should be growing and exporting food in the U.S. We shouldn´t be importing food.
70 people like this.
Oh the horrors; the humanity.
129 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Mushroom 4/1/2019 12:56:48 PM (No. 20025)
Really wouldn´t bother me in the least. How about how it would bother Mexico? Isn´t that the point?
74 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
former lurker 4/1/2019 12:59:23 PM (No. 20018)
Nonsense! We might run out of cheap avocados but Mexico isn’t the only country that grows avados, we even grow them here in this country!
81 people like this.
somehow, I think I will be able to cope...
72 people like this.
Seems like the avocado farmers would want Mexico should get its act together.
43 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/1/2019 1:13:18 PM (No. 20033)
The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Entrepreneurship relies on meeting people’s needs. Someone will find another way to make money selling the U.S. avocados. Truest me, we won’t be left wanting.
75 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 4/1/2019 1:14:40 PM (No. 20041)
Priorities -
FTA:
The effects of a shutdown would run both ways.
Mexico is the largest importer of U.S. exports of refined fuels like diesel and gasoline,
But the headline is about America and avocados.
46 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/1/2019 1:15:42 PM (No. 20010)
We could manage. Skip the “scare” tactics. I am more interested in our security than I am in avocados. And I absolutely love avocados.
94 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
slab 4/1/2019 1:17:30 PM (No. 20020)
OMG!! Holy Guacamole!!
And we´ll run out of tequila, too!!
91 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
legalart 4/1/2019 1:18:33 PM (No. 20006)
WHO cares? Doesn´t the US have any avocado farms? Pluheeeese. We grow avocado trees in our yards in FL.
38 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/1/2019 1:18:49 PM (No. 20051)
PS. When I lived in San Diego we had a gorgeous big avocado tree in our backyard. My parents had one in their yard that they started from a seed. Southern Californians can grow these and citrus, and many other things, very easily.
That said, the border closing works both ways. We ship them meat and many other products they deem to be essential.
This would definitely get their attention. Send the SJWs packing.
62 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
cor-vet 4/1/2019 1:22:17 PM (No. 20019)
I wouldn´t miss the avocados, can´t stand them, but my wife would. As for the alcohol, Tequila will never replace good Kentucky Bourbon or Tennessee whiskey, so close ithe border down down.
45 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
SabraJet 4/1/2019 1:31:35 PM (No. 20049)
Yeah! My brother is growing them to sell in his backyard!
17 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
jalo1951 4/1/2019 1:34:50 PM (No. 20047)
I don´t like avocado and I am a non drinker. I´m just saying. How many illegals and drugs would be curtailed?
37 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Rama41 4/1/2019 1:40:54 PM (No. 20016)
When the number of illegal immigrants starts to exceed the number of avocados, it´s time to take action.
78 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
ebolamadcow 4/1/2019 1:41:10 PM (No. 20035)
small price
24 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
HoraceR 4/1/2019 1:41:17 PM (No. 20036)
Reuters, what would we do without them? A crisis on the border and they reduce it to avocados and margaritas.
42 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Cannon 4/1/2019 1:41:43 PM (No. 20061)
I love avocados but, so what? Will there be safe spaces for people like me?
41 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 4/1/2019 1:43:17 PM (No. 20065)
Millennials won´t be able to get their avocado toast for breakfast. The horror!
36 people like this.
My thoughts exactly, #15. Notice how the headline doesn’t say the supply of meth, heroine and fentanyl would be exhausted in three weeks?
63 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
Nimby 4/1/2019 1:44:51 PM (No. 20081)
Reuters is also refusing to state that " the farmers in Mexico also will be left holding rotting avocados"
45 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
peebster 4/1/2019 1:48:33 PM (No. 20043)
A few weeks of lost Avocado revenue and Mex will capitulate. The best fed people in the world will be OK methinks.
46 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 4/1/2019 1:50:42 PM (No. 20004)
Oh, no, no more guacamole! How will we ever survive??!!? (s/o)
17 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
BarryNo 4/1/2019 1:51:12 PM (No. 20022)
So?
I guess consumers of Mexican cuisine will be disapointed.
17 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 4/1/2019 1:53:27 PM (No. 20045)
Let´s see here: measles, moochers, influx of violent criminals, destruction of America through illegal votes VS. loss of avocados
Hmmmmm . . . I´m just not sure which one to choose!
59 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
DVC 4/1/2019 1:58:44 PM (No. 20078)
That is a tiny, tiny blip of nothing in this emergency. Irrelevant in the longer term.
JUST DO IT!
23 people like this.
Sooooo, we eliminate new Latin American gangbanger killers coming in, stop the flow of fraud voters disenfranchising actual Americans, AND we build up our own domestic avocado business?
What an I missing? Where is the downside?
41 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/1/2019 2:07:11 PM (No. 20027)
"Have you seen the price of aeugula lately?" (Obscure reference by Kenyan U.S. senator, flitting for the president, 2008)
17 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
TXknitter 4/1/2019 2:10:15 PM (No. 20059)
If it means fewer illegal Mexicans in my Texas, fewer for employers to keep hiring (thanx a lot) and we have to growbour own Texas avocados? Close the border. Mexico elected a socialist President. They are cozier with communists now than they are with America.
40 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
vesparado1 4/1/2019 2:13:03 PM (No. 20066)
More "proof" that the President hates Mexicans. Can you imagine what will happen to literally every Mexican restaurant in the US when they simultaneously run out of avocados for guacamole? Now THAT will be a crisis!
23 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
shalimar 4/1/2019 2:19:54 PM (No. 20007)
As a wise dude once said, if you want to make an omelette, you have to break some eggs.
19 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
RenoVet68 4/1/2019 2:31:06 PM (No. 20032)
How about giving up meat, butter & coffee, among other things, as our parents did during WWII?
ii
42 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
GO3 4/1/2019 2:34:43 PM (No. 20008)
Avocado and margarita lovers hit hardest. Oh well, that´s why I´m sticking to beer and pizza.
26 people like this.
Mexico grows a lot of fruit. This is why we need more Global Warming so this fruit can be grown in the US. Climate change people are only fruit deniers.
26 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 4/1/2019 2:45:16 PM (No. 20038)
The worst part of this situation is that Jeb! won´t be able to clear the warehouse of the last of his $75.00 guacamole bowls.
17 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 4/1/2019 2:51:30 PM (No. 20077)
Our local avocado farmers are hurting due to the dumping of cheap Mexican avocados in the US. Closing will only help the US.
26 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 4/1/2019 2:57:27 PM (No. 20080)
Ohhohoho! Avocados?! What a laugh! If Trump closes the border the Mexicans will run, not walk, to stop the migrants. Watch how fast Mexico would close it´s southern border with Guatemala & Belieze. It´s the Mexican who would lose, not us.
19 people like this.
Reply 39 - Posted by:
Folsomguy 4/1/2019 3:00:50 PM (No. 20062)
The real reason for this is because California growers were put out of business because They couldn´t water because California wounldn´t let them build the dams to capture enough.
29 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
DVC 4/1/2019 3:06:55 PM (No. 20011)
#12, yes, excellent point. A friend, who died early this year I am sad to say, ran an avocado grove north of San Diego until he was in his 80s, and Mexican avocados were running him out of business.
Stop importing the Mexican avocados, and buy American. Actually, I can´t stand the slimey green stuff, but know others love them.
21 people like this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 4/1/2019 3:14:28 PM (No. 20034)
Uh.... lemme see... A bland , mushy ,oily, overpriced fruit with a ridiculously short shelf life ..
or stopping the invading hordes bringing back diseases we sucessfully wiped out decades ago....
31 people like this.
Reply 42 - Posted by:
Shmowry1 4/1/2019 3:16:27 PM (No. 20076)
That simply means less money going to Mexico. All CA avocado farmers would enjoy a huge boon in sales and higher prices.
20 people like this.
Reply 43 - Posted by:
Shmowry1 4/1/2019 3:19:29 PM (No. 20005)
How is this any different than when the avocado workers went on strike last year? No avocados. We survived. Plus local growers benefited. This all sounds good to me.
14 people like this.
Reply 44 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/1/2019 3:25:25 PM (No. 20055)
What a cryin´ shame. Crimea river.
Its Rotters. Typical of them.
13 people like this.
Reply 45 - Posted by:
Namma 4/1/2019 3:39:35 PM (No. 20046)
I say shut the borders. It’s one way Mexico pays for the wall. I will not buy green onions grown in Mexico. I also stopped buying Ritz crackers. They are made in Mexico. And I will NEVER buy a GMC. They shut down a plant in Ohio while that car is made in Mexico and China. Won’t be one in my garage!
17 people like this.
Reply 46 - Posted by:
Daisy Mae 4/1/2019 3:40:53 PM (No. 20069)
So, the green slimy, inedible fruit won´t be on our menu. GREAT.
14 people like this.
Reply 47 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/1/2019 3:44:06 PM (No. 20054)
Measles or Avaocados... Avocados or Measles... hmmmm...
15 people like this.
Reply 48 - Posted by:
Varjo 4/1/2019 3:47:59 PM (No. 20015)
Didn´t one of our founding fathers say...
"As for me... give guacamole or give me death!"
14 people like this.
Reply 49 - Posted by:
Obviousity 4/1/2019 3:49:49 PM (No. 20070)
#40 . . . and then the drought, and then the Norther CA enviros cut water supplies, and then came the fires. Dried out Avocado tress are just chock full of oil and burn like Roman candles.
15 people like this.
Reply 50 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 4/1/2019 3:53:28 PM (No. 20028)
My Give-A-Darn is busted.
14 people like this.
Reply 51 - Posted by:
judy 4/1/2019 3:55:45 PM (No. 20050)
Somebody please send the Reuters staff to Mexico so they can have all the avocados they desire. We can boycott avocados just like we boycotted French Fries !
15 people like this.
Reply 52 - Posted by:
winnie1 4/1/2019 4:04:59 PM (No. 20067)
That´s alright with me. We got a report last week that we should not eat avocados that they were carrying listeriosis. Should have known they were coming from Mexico UGH!
16 people like this.
Reply 53 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 4/1/2019 4:07:36 PM (No. 20017)
We USED to get all our avocados from California growers, to my recollection.
One of the most productive agricultural regions in the world was the Central Valley of CA. "Was", as the Dems shut off the water supply necessary for irrigation to protect the so-called "Delta Smelt".
If i remember right, 60,000+/- people lost their jobs.
I want great, clean avocados from California. I want the Central Valley to be green again.
17 people like this.
Reply 54 - Posted by:
italianlooks 4/1/2019 4:10:33 PM (No. 20053)
Is this 21st Tulip Scare!
There will be a Suicide watch for the genZ’s snowflakes, millennials and maybe their parents.. avocados.. and WWII you could not get shoes, gas butter or meat..and so much more.. how will they survive?
14 people like this.
Reply 55 - Posted by:
zoidberg 4/1/2019 4:13:45 PM (No. 20074)
There is no benefit to either the US or Mexico in closing the border. None.
18 people like this.
Reply 56 - Posted by:
StormCnter 4/1/2019 4:17:06 PM (No. 20044)
I have yet to be convinced that "closing the border" is even possible. All that can really be shut down are the legal crossings. What about the other unmanned fifteen hundred or so miles of open desert and Rio Grande?
16 people like this.
Reply 57 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 4/1/2019 4:22:27 PM (No. 20012)
Who cares what we run out of; what is important is what we don´t run out of, the main things being FREEDOM, SAFETY, and SECURITY).The U.S. can be self-suffient if need be. What we don´t need is illegal drugs crossing the border. The headlines scream Opioid Epidemic and still illegal drugs stream over the border. Shut it down until a wall is built or enforce the border using deadly force.
55 people like this.
Reply 58 - Posted by:
dman 4/1/2019 4:28:11 PM (No. 20014)
I love avacodos grown in California and elsewhere in the US.
Now, about those remittances ..
12 people like this.
Reply 59 - Posted by:
lftrn97 4/1/2019 4:29:19 PM (No. 20072)
I like avocados but I can do without them i until the pits I have planted bear fruit.
15 people like this.
Reply 60 - Posted by:
cartcart 4/1/2019 4:40:35 PM (No. 20042)
If they take away avocados, only criminals will have them. Big deal! I am already doing without cheap souvenirs including wood carvings, velvet paintings, chess sets and leather sandals with a tire tread. How bad can this avocado shortage be?
14 people like this.
Reply 61 - Posted by:
lana720 4/1/2019 4:45:16 PM (No. 20048)
Personally cannot stand slimy avocados, but we have enough adult beverages to last until Jesus returns for us. Salut!
16 people like this.
Reply 62 - Posted by:
Madinmaryland 4/1/2019 4:53:48 PM (No. 20030)
I can handle that.
14 people like this.
Reply 63 - Posted by:
MeiDei 4/1/2019 5:00:05 PM (No. 20029)
Have never had a slimy avocado - okra, yes. We have two to pick from: the little black Haas avocado and the much bigger smooth skinned green one. Along the way nutritionists have promoted the Haas as being the good choice/fat; maybe that is propaganda.
15 people like this.
Reply 64 - Posted by:
PageTurner 4/1/2019 5:32:11 PM (No. 20031)
I love Mexican avocados, but I´ll wait.
We have to halt the migrants. Every avocado eaten comes with a migrant family scarfing up benefits attached to it.
15 people like this.
Reply 65 - Posted by:
Safari Man 4/1/2019 6:20:59 PM (No. 20026)
We´ll run out of Fentanyl and Heroine too.
17 people like this.
Reply 66 - Posted by:
mackrand 4/1/2019 8:10:24 PM (No. 20057)
At a dollar apiece my kitchen ran out of them years ago!!
22 people like this.
Reply 67 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/1/2019 9:10:33 PM (No. 20056)
Avocados are also grown in Florida.
12 people like this.
On September 11, after the Twin Towers went down, I drove a rental car from San Antonio to Kansas City. When I left San Antonio the two lanes going North was bumper to bumper in both lanes of semis hauling goods from Mexico Northward. I didn´t see a road sign for the trucks until I left Dallas when it cleared out a bit and that was because many of them went East out of Dallas. I say this because that was 18 years ago and that kind of truck traffic went on 24/7. If the President closes the border it will take just long enough for truckloads of veggies to rot and businesses shut down in Mexico for them to do a faceplant and realize it is time for Mexico to take an active part in this illegal debacle.
12 people like this.
Reply 69 - Posted by:
humboldt 4/1/2019 11:24:34 PM (No. 20058)
I think we´ll survive! Of course, it helps to live in northern San Diego County where the bulk of American avocados are grown!
11 people like this.
Reply 70 - Posted by:
watashiyo 4/1/2019 11:38:44 PM (No. 20073)
You´ll find avocados and mangos wasted and rotting away on the grounds of Hawaii.
16 people like this.
Reply 71 - Posted by:
XCenturion 4/2/2019 4:13:30 AM (No. 20060)
There certainly won´t be a shortage of illegals invading our country.
10 people like this.
Close the border. Deport every illegal on this side. Florida avocados are better.
Why not subsidize farming in the US ? We are no longer a self sustaining country.
If we have less immigrants, we would need less food. What´s the big deal?
Thanks for the heads up about Ritz crackers. Most toothpaste is made in Mexico, but you would be hard pressed to find that on a tube.
10 people like this.
Reply 73 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/2/2019 5:42:10 AM (No. 20064)
Shut down avocado shipments? Horrors. The real reason libtards have their panties in a twist is that it would shut down illegal drugs, the staple of libtards.
15 people like this.
Reply 74 - Posted by:
Franz 4/2/2019 3:07:24 PM (No. 20052)
The congress has been told repeatedly about the crisis on the boarder and has done nothing but deny, obstruct or sit on their arses.
If congress will do nothing, Trump will have no choice other than to shut down the boarder.
Having to go without avocados seems a small price to pay to prevent an invasion.
15 people like this.
Reply 75 - Posted by:
Bohallx 4/3/2019 12:09:35 PM (No. 20040)
I know avocados are too dangerous to eat because I read MOTHER JONES and they had this great article about these little Petri dishes on trees ~ they grow bacteria so fast you probably shouldn´t keep them in your kitchen ~ when ripe ~
Which means, I DON´T CARE about avocados or Abogados for that matter!
6 people like this.