Some British and Irish restaurants are ditching avocado dishes over concerns about the environment and Mexican drug cartels
Avocado on toast might be off the menu. British and Irish restaurants are increasingly ditching them over concerns that Latin American imports are damaging the environment and funding Mexican drug cartels. Growers in Michoacán, west Mexico, have had their land seized by drug lords who are reported to be earning £150m a year by selling the so-called “blood avocados” to British traders.
The Wild Strawberry Cafe in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, once served 1,000 avocado dishes each week. The owner, Katy Brill, made the “controversial” decision to stop because of ethical concerns over imports, the cartel reports among them. “Primarily I just felt that it didn’t fit with my ethos of using local food,” she says. “If you can eat with the season and source your food locally, that’s always going to be sustainable because it’s not going to have travelled so far.”
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