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.

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.

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

Stop buying America. Problems solved.

Driscoll is evil.

hence why im always washing the berries before consumption

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.

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.

More Perfect Union did a piece on them

Many grocery stores in the states ONLY sell Driscoll

They also taste like water

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.

Another reason to buy local

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

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

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?

2022-24

So preceding the current boycott, unfortunately.

Oh driscoll...

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

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

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.