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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 2 days ago

U.S. orange juice shipments plummet as Canadians find Florida OJ hard to swallow

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U.S. orange juice shipments plummet as Canadians find Florida OJ hard to swallow

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RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 2 days ago
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  • grte@lemmy.ca
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    Turns out Moroccan and South African oranges taste just like oranges so avoiding yankee oranges hasn’t been much of an issue.

    • timidtaxidermist@lemmy.ca
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      Can confirm. Oranges do taste like oranges.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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        notice how the color matches the name? That cannot be a coincidence.

        • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca
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          Calling the fruit an orange came before calling the colour orange.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(word)

          • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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            I knew there was a conspiracy.

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    So that means there should be a surplus of OJ for Americans which should drive down prices in the US… right? Right? /s

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      The Florida citrus industry where most of the juice oranges are grown is dying. Citrus greening has been killing the groves off. The tariffs are stupid but not the main price mover.

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        Citrus greening

        Good thing Trump shut down all the woke research to try and prevent this infection.

    • lime!@feddit.nu
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      it does. it also drives down the value of the dollar. net result is that you won’t see a change.

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        That is only true if part of the final product is imported. Since this is about Florida OJ using Florida oranges, it should lead to a decrease in price. Alas, capitalism will not let that happen

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          if the effort involved in production stays the same and the currency depreciates, it would make sense for wages to go up. since they won’t, the value of the product decreases. but since the currency has, again, depreciated, the dollar value of the product stays the same.

          i think. i know nothing about economics.

          • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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            Economists know nothing about economics. It’s not a real science.

            • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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              it’s a 200 million body problem, where it gets impossible after 3.

            • lime!@feddit.nu
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              well it is, but that science is chaos theory and they don’t have any expertise in that area.

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    A lot of US OJ also comes from Brazil. With the tax on Brazilian goods it would be a nice opportunity for Canada and Brazil cut out the middle man.

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    The OJ you buy is absolute junk anyway. The pasteurization process removes all flavour so they have to compensate with artificial flavours and extra sugar and it still tastes nothing like the actual fresh squeezed stuff you make yourself.

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      You can keep the oranges in your house long enough to make juice?

  • RinseChessBacked@lemmy.ml
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    Florida orange production has also collapsed for a number of reasons. https://citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/florida-orange-production-plummeted-years/

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    That’s alarming.

    Canadians might have protein deficiency due to the sheer lack of bugs they are no longer digesting through their Floridian orange juice.

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    Woo another thing I’m accidentally boycotting by coincidence

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    A little off topic, but has anyone else noticed that most oranges taste like stinky mud for the last few years?

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      Tropicana OJ has always sucked, but this year i noticed it has gotten so bad I would rather not drink it.

      Simply is pretty good still, expensive tho

      Raspberry juice has been a good replacement :3

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      Yeah. Occasionally I find a good batch bit oranges have not been good recently. You could put it down to climate change or maybe just going for higher yields over everything else.

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        I’m not sure, feels like there’s something more off… Almost like there’s some kind of blight or fungus that’s taken over

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          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_greening_disease

          Scientists working on this have been sacked to save money.

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      No but i have noticed they are a lot less juicy, heat waves are affecting crop quality big time.

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    I’ve given up on OJ because of the fascist in chief. I’m hoping we can start getting OJ from Mexico

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