The big chill: Cooler ships Pajaro Valley strawberries across N...

By 9 a.m. most days, a dozen or more big rigs are lined up outside the Dole Berry Co.

[Water Berry Ponzi Scheme]

There goes our water, year after year, Folks...15,000 acre feet per year stolen/expropriated by salt water intrusion by 200% overdraft, 90% use by
www.driscolls.com
www.dole.com
www.calgiant.com
www.trical.com et al
and don't foget UC!!!

http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2007/05/10/fr...

www.begentlewiththeearth.com
www.begentlewiththeearth.net
www.begentlewiththeearth.org

[Shibangy]

Sweet. Rape massive amounts of land and water to the point that it irreversibly damages and affects hundreds of thousands all so a profit can be made on a worthless berry known as a dessert fruit.

Boycott strawberries to the extreme! This devestation must stop!

[jenny]

Ah yes, methyl bromide shortcake for everyone!

[Murdering Our Aquifer]

Headline should read:
The big chill: Cooler ships Pajaro Valley WATER!!!! across North America

The Story:

www.driscolls.com
www.dole.com
www.calgiant.com
www.trical.com
(and UC) murders our local water supply.

[Gimme Shelter]

Murdering Our Aquifer wrote:

Headline should read:
The big chill: Cooler ships Pajaro Valley WATER!!!! across North America
The Story:
www.driscolls.com
www.dole.com
www.calgiant.com
www.trical.com
(and UC) murders our local water supply.

Rape?
Murder?

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My very life today
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Ooh, see the fire is sweepin
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way

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The floods is threatning
My very life today
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Or Im gonna fade away

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[plainsane]

yep, lets showcase Dole, the company that relentlessly sprays pesticides every week on their strawberry crop.. great work

[Cheatos]

Thanks for the heads up on this guys. I've been merrily eating my Driscoll's rasberries on my cereal every morning until now. I don't know what to do except change to buying most everything I eat to farmers markets. Suggestions? I live in San Jose.

[local]

Good ideas everyone lets put all local (large & small)farmers out of business so we can buy our strawberries from china, and pay $15 a basket. Produce fuels the economy in California. Wake up.

[a seeker]

I used to work at a peach cannery. We used a 'hydra cooler' (cold water) to get the peaches down to 38 degrees. Peaches are really different then strawberries. I would imagine running cold water over the strawberries would reduce their shelf life, not extend it. Good article.

[Ag Carrying Capacity]

local wrote:

Good ideas everyone lets put all local (large & small)farmers out of business so we can buy our strawberries from china, and pay $15 a basket. Produce fuels the economy in California. Wake up.

You better wake up, Bozo Biserkleyite...sheesh, you pc rad-cityfolk are pretty clueless, apparently....not "produce" produced over what the sustainable "ag carrying capacity" of a particular region, given that region's available resources.
That's the question. And who says we have any imperative, economic, moral, environmental or otherwise, which requires that we grow 25% of this country's berries in our little Pajaro Valley, irrespective of the costs?

[Coulrophobia]

Call this news? Yawwwwwn.

[Water Berry Ponzi Scheme]

Water Berry Ponzi Scheme wrote:

There goes our water, year after year, Folks...15,000 acre feet per year stolen/expropriated by salt water intrusion by 200% overdraft, 90% use by
www.driscolls.com
www.dole.com
www.calgiant.com
www.trical.com et al
and don't foget UC!!!
http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2007/05/10/fr...
www.begentlewiththeearth.com
www.begentlewiththeearth.net
www.begentlewiththeearth.org

FYI...15,000 acre feet of water requires around 7 new $100 million Santa Cruz desalination plants (one plant is possibly going to be built in 8 years, maybe???) to produce if they were to operate 24/7....of course, that's before operations and maintenance...mostly electricity to drive the pumps...but we can't really know what these costs might be....yet.

[Water]

Our most valuable agricultural "export".
Think about it.

www.begentlewiththeearth.com
www.begentlewiththeearth.net
www.begentlewiththeearth.org

[how many times]

Do clueless people on this site need to be told that the location that populates under your user name is NOT THE PHYSICAL LOCATION you are posting from?? It is merely where your ISP is located. Let me know if you need me to explain that further for you.

Seems to me that YOU need to wake up and figure this out before giving others grief for not being "local".

Unbelievable.

Ag Carrying Capacity wrote:

<quoted text>You better wake up, Bozo Biserkleyite...sheesh, you pc rad-cityfolk are pretty clueless, apparently....not "produce" produced over what the sustainable "ag carrying capacity" of a particular region, given that region's available resources.
That's the question. And who says we have any imperative, economic, moral, environmental or otherwise, which requires that we grow 25% of this country's berries in our little Pajaro Valley, irrespective of the costs?

[plainsane]

local wrote:

Good ideas everyone lets put all local (large & small)farmers out of business so we can buy our strawberries from china, and pay $15 a basket. Produce fuels the economy in California. Wake up.

you have it all wrong. care to explain why China would pick up the strawberry market and not Mexico?

[Mexico]

plainsane wrote:

<quoted text>
you have it all wrong. care to explain why China would pick up the strawberry market and not Mexico?

...already does.

[Ag Carrying Capacity]

how many times wrote:

Do clueless people on this site need to be told that the location that populates under your user name is NOT THE PHYSICAL LOCATION you are posting from?? It is merely where your ISP is located. Let me know if you need me to explain that further for you.
Seems to me that YOU need to wake up and figure this out before giving others grief for not being "local".
Unbelievable.
<quoted text>

It's not your physical location, "local".
It's your warped pc rad-bizerklyesque grossly inaccurate perspective of reality that's of concern. But don't fret about it too much.
You are not alone in your fantasy.

[plainsane]

Mexico wrote:

<quoted text>...already does.

um, right... like I said, care to explain?