Almería, Spain's sea of plastic (greenhouses) seen from above. Covering 40000 hectares, it produces around 3.5 million tons of fruits & veggies every year, capable of feeding over 500M people.

time2lose@lemmy.world · vor 1 Monat

Almería, Spain's sea of plastic (greenhouses) seen from above. Covering 40000 hectares, it produces around 3.5 million tons of fruits & veggies every year, capable of feeding over 500M people.

SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · vor 1 Monat

Also relies on the exploitation of migrant workers

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/21/europe/spain-migrant-workers-conditions-intl

¬∃x(∀y(y∈x↔y∉y))@programming.dev · vor 1 Monat

Crazy. Why can’t we devise a system where everyone has their own assigned time in the year to pick crops in a hothouse to spread out the suffering rather than have an underclass of near slaves live in squalor while native Europeans live cushy lives?

cheat700000007@lemmy.world · vor 1 Monat

Most of it sits in the fridge for a week before being thrown out