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Avocados require huge amounts of water for their cultivation, and here they end being fed to pigs.

We should have better economic models that don't destroy the environment as just 'another externality'.

Being fed to pigs is actually one of the better outcome for food waste.

Feeding avacado isn't a part of their business model. They got bruised avacados from a market chain, on their way to the dumpster.

They were fed to pigs because they got a lot more than they could use and not give away since people around them were not familar with avacados.

But yes. It is a pretty bad practice to ship avacados around the globe in the name of ecoligy conservation.