Lawsuit claims about 50% of shipments from 2022-24 had fruit exceeding Canadian safety levels

Driscoll’s berries are on many Canadians’ plates and all over Canadian grocery stores, with their tagline claiming to be “only the finest berries.”

But a whistleblower lawsuit in California alleges the finest berries were not sent to Canada: instead, millions of pounds of fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border, and the company tried to cover it up.

California resident and former Driscoll’s employee David Harada claims in the lawsuit that by Driscoll’s own estimates, about 50 per cent of all shipments to Canada from 2022 to 2024 had fruit that exceeded Canadian safety levels.

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
    41·
    4 days ago

    Yes the commercial fertilizers are produced to do that and contain poop. I am referring to the underground water that is tainted with all sorts of nasty things which they use to feed the berries.

    • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      Can you name a specific nasty thing here in the ground water that is bad for plants? As plants rely on ground water. As do trees. That’s often where they source their water hence where the roots are.

      • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
        41·
        3 days ago

        Sure. Chemicals that seep into the ground water. Old city sewer pipes that leak raw human sewage etc into the ground water. Regular fertilizer from farm animal poop does not have these things in it. Do a search on chemical leaks into water table and broken sewer pipes leaking into ground water. I am sure you will find more than enough to substantiate my claim.

        • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          16 hours ago

          I am sure you will find more than enough to substantiate my claim.

          This is your claim. it is not my job to do your homework for you. either way I’m gonna move on cuz this sounds like sheltered apartment dweller logic that you only now just discover shit exists to feed plants and this really isn’t a good sign for a source of information.

        • GreenM@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          3 days ago

          I’d say farm animals in US are being fed chems, drugs and steroids. I’m pretty sure some of it gets into their poop and ends up on fields.

          • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
            11·
            3 days ago

            Sadly your correct. One can hope these animals are not doing crack etc like the city folk and it’s the lesser of two evils.

      • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
        21·
        3 days ago

        I am trying to find the article I read about them using tainted ground water (chemicals, raw sewage from public not the fertilizer that is sold as such with farm animal poop) on top of the forever chemicals that are supposed to be in them as well. Hopefully, I will find it and post it.