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[–] 19 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

However, the CFIA says the inspections did not lead to recalls, or a corrective action was implemented and the investigations were closed.

Man, it sounds like CFIA should do its job instead of just letting people eat toxic shit. I wonder if we are underfunding them?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    2022-24

    So preceding the current boycott, unfortunately.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Oh driscoll...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    I have always turned my nose at Trump’s FDA. The USA is becoming a third-world country.

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  • 29 comments in c/world@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 51 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I just learned a few months ago about how unsafe these berries are to eat. My family and I avoid this company’s products at all costs now.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    That's ok we're leaving those on the shelf anyway

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago

    Stop buying America. Problems solved.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (21 children)

    hence why im always washing the berries before consumption

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (17 children)

    I still would not trust them. They water the plants with shitty water too. Also genetically manipulated.

    https://newrepublic.com/article/180146/strawberries-driscolls-water-genetic-pesticide

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (14 children)

    you might want to pick a better word than 'shitty' when talking about feeding plants considering what fertilizer is.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (13 children)

    There’s a difference between fertilizer and shit in the ground water used to feed the plants.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (8 children)

    The fertilizer is often shit. Chicken shit, to be exact, but others are used as well.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    Yes the commercial fertilizers are produced to do that and contain poop. I am referring to the underground water that is tainted with all sorts of nasty things which they use to feed the berries.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

    Can you name a specific nasty thing here in the ground water that is bad for plants? As plants rely on ground water. As do trees. That's often where they source their water hence where the roots are.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Sure. Chemicals that seep into the ground water. Old city sewer pipes that leak raw human sewage etc into the ground water. Regular fertilizer from farm animal poop does not have these things in it. Do a search on chemical leaks into water table and broken sewer pipes leaking into ground water. I am sure you will find more than enough to substantiate my claim.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I am sure you will find more than enough to substantiate my claim.

    This is your claim. it is not my job to do your homework for you. either way I'm gonna move on cuz this sounds like sheltered apartment dweller logic that you only now just discover shit exists to feed plants and this really isn't a good sign for a source of information.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    I am trying to find the article I read about them using tainted ground water (chemicals, raw sewage from public not the fertilizer that is sold as such with farm animal poop) on top of the forever chemicals that are supposed to be in them as well. Hopefully, I will find it and post it.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Really. Huh. TIL.

    So is this fudge, chocolate, or caramel they are spreading over this field?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Also, a lot of ag producers will till biosolids into their fields as fertilizer, which are the leftover spoils from sewage treatment plants. The biosolids are supposed to be composted enough to kill off harmful microbes, but sometimes they don't get up to kill step temp.

    Regardless of complete composting, they usually have residual chemicals that are in the wastewater stream that aren't removed in wastewater treatment, like pissed out pharma drugs/metabolites, random household chemicals and hazardous waste, PFAs, etc.

    More info covering the scope of the problem here. Anecdotal coverage of farmers being left with unusable toxic land here.

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    [–] 23 points 1 month ago

    I wouldn't trust any US-owned produce of I was Canadian. I had corn in the husk the other day and it tasted like chemicals in the bottom, which has never happened before. It was likely insecticide at too high a dose based on looking it up.

    Sorry, Canada. We suck more than usual at the moment.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Driscoll does not grow a single berry. They are a genetic bank of seed stocks that contract farms to grow berries year around. By contracting, they have plausible deniability about pesticides in the berries.

    Have you noticed you can now buy berries year around?

    And why isn't CFIA checking food? That's their job.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    CFIA checked but didn’t stop anything

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Then what is the point of the CFIA. Between CFIA and Health Canada, over 15,000 doing fuck all.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    No surprise really. Nothing is happening in regarding labeling either. So many products not labeled with origin or mislabeled (maple washing). We need tighter rules, stricter controls and hefty fines.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    More Perfect Union did a piece on them

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Many grocery stores in the states ONLY sell Driscoll

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    They also taste like water

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Partner and I go out of our way to avoid Driscoll's. We used to eat a lot more of their stuff but stopped a few years ago. Very thankful that in the past few months, our local groceries seem to be pulling in other brands and sources. We buy and support every chance we can to send a message. Genuinely, just last week we passed Strawberries that were 75% off and left them on the shelf.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Thank you! This was very positive to hear. I tend to just go for frozen strawberries unless they are in season.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yeah we get some frozen but have to be careful there still. At least we try to make sure it's a Canadian brand/packaged in Canada. The strawberries are probably still grown in the USA, but if we can at least support Canadian workers in some way, better than nothing.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago

    Sometime products will rotate. You might like cherries, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries in the frozen section of Empire or Loblaws.

    For Costco, there is only frozen blueberries for frozen fruit from what I remember.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Another reason to buy local

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Does Canada not test the food coming in? That's a bit scary.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Of course there is testing. But it's done statistically. Nobody inspects every single package of anything that enters any country.

    And, historically, there has also been some level of trust in the inspections that happen at the production stage. But with all the cuts that DOGE and RFK have made to food safety assurance in the USA, that is no longer trustworthy adding extra levels of burden to import insections.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    Mods, delete post if you want, and I can post elsewhere.

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    [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    It must be in the chemicals they use to strip out all the flavour and make it so they rot instantly

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Someone in my old neighborhood worked for a few years at a berry farm, and ended up with skin that regularly and painfully peels from their hands and arms, and have breathing issues, and nerve damage throughout their body from it.

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    [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    millions of pounds of fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border, and the company tried to cover it up.

    American made food should be consumed by Americans only.

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