• SuperZutsuki [they/them, any]
    hexbear
    39
    25 days ago

    People need to stop expecting every fruit and vegetable to be available fresh year round. I shouldn't be able to get fresh berries in the middle of winter.

    • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
      hexbear
      20
      edit-2
      25 days ago

      Fresh fish too is such a killer. I’m sorry, but do not buy seafood if you live in the Midwestern United States, especially anything live or fresh. Frozen is slightly better, but even then think of what goes in to making that happen.

      • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
        hexbear
        13
        25 days ago

        The Midwest has the great lakes. Too bad we killed a lot of the stuff in there.

        • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
          hexbear
          6
          25 days ago

          Local is always going to be the best option, so it is a shame we absolutely devastated local environments to ship food halfway across the world

      • @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
        hexbear
        7
        25 days ago

        All of the seafood in the Midwest has been frozen and thawed back out at the grocery store. Fresh fish in the Midwest and even near the coast is a lie. 85% of all us fish consumed is imported, and it was frozen before it ever got into US territory. Many fishing boats freeze them on ship, even. The only way you can chance upon "fresh" fish is if it's in season and near the coast you're buying in.

        • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
          hexbear
          18
          edit-2
          25 days ago

          Maybe, but Iceland is surrounded by ocean filled with fish and most people live on the coastline. That’s much more sustainable than buying live clams/ fresh fish from a chain grocery store in North Dakota

                • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
                  hexbear
                  11
                  edit-2
                  25 days ago

                  The Midwest they are referring to is a region of the land-locked interior of the united states. Generally refers to the states in the region comprising of: Nebraska to the West, Minnesota to the North, Ohio to the East, Missouri to the South, and those that lie between.

            • ped_xing [he/him]
              hexbear
              8
              25 days ago

              Is the gag that Iceland's in the middle of "the West"?

            • CoolerOpposide [none/use name]
              hexbear
              5
              25 days ago

              I see where you are coming from and that’s my bad, I’ll make the term more specific.

              I was using a colloquialism common to the United States which refers to a group of landlocked areas hundreds/thousands of miles away from the ocean

              • @TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml
                hexbear
                3
                25 days ago

                We’ve fucked ourselves over with fishing rights, there was no point.

                When we were doing Brexit, the pro Brexit politicians got the fishermen on their side. But they’d sold fishing rights to Europe.

                • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
                  hexbear
                  5
                  edit-2
                  25 days ago

                  As i see this Brexit was one hell of a hoax. Sure, fuck EU but from the outside of UK it clearly looked as because EU was not neoliberal and imperialist enough for them.

      • SuperZutsuki [they/them, any]
        hexbear
        11
        25 days ago

        They're going to have to if anything is to be done about climate change. (I do not expect anything to be done about climate change.)

      • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
        hexbear
        9
        25 days ago

        many certainly are cucked by their political economy into believing with absolute certainty, despite all evidence to the contrary, the current and wildly unsustainable configuration is all that's possible.

        pretty sure if they can swallow "Trump v Biden = democracy" and "no money for healthcare, infinity money for war" they can wrap their minds around "no vine ripe tomatoes in January".

      • nothx [he/him]
        hexbear
        4
        25 days ago

        How can you expect us to give up our treats!?!?!? You must hate freedom.