Grown in Argentina, Packed in Thailand

[@estebanjosearancibiardrigu4068]

Hi, so just to clarify, most pears in Argentina are grown in the Patagonia (not exactly a warm place) or next to the Andes, in high altitudes(again, not a warm place). The motive why you want pears from Argentina is not because of the average hot temperature of these regions but because we are in the southern hemisphere so we can grow pears in our summer while you are playing with snow. We certainly don't grow pears in hot climates, quite the opposite actually, we grow them where summer is chill, in cool, but warm conditions if you get the picture. Is not that we don't have rainforests close to the tropics, but pears do not have a great time there. So the motive you buy pears from Argentina is because we have our seasons interchange as we live in the southern hemisphere.

[@koushuu]

@SMA Productions lol the rain-all-year miserable land indeed

[@guillermoblanco286]

Thank you for saying this!!

[@estebanjosearancibiardrigu4068]

@SMA Productions yeah, my experience with Brits has always been quite cordial and really nice. Even though we went to war in the 80's they have shown respect to me personally and talk about that issue understanding the situation and being comprehensive. So, no need to hate no one base on their nationality :)

[@Banom7a]

in Malaysia, Apples (close to Pears) are grown in the mountain because the climate is milder there as opposed to the lowland which is not suitable to grow this as it is just hot and humid.

[@frenchempire9471]

@@Banom7a not to be rude but apples are a well known fruit

[@kkat-clips]

i love the inclusion of monopoly money as argentine pesos, that's how we argentines think of it too!

[@haitham1553]

kats can talk in Argentina?

[@josecreative]

I live in argentina and youre telling the Truth lol

[@jonathanbosak8581]

Thanks Macri

[@juango500]

@@jonathanbosak8581 not just macri. it seems like we've been fucked since the 1930s. sidenote: Buenos Aires was already an illegal port in the 1500s

[@lucastempcoco]

@@jonathanbosak8581 find the kirchnerist.

[@gabrielfraser2109]

Here's a major point to consider, whenever we're talking about any relatively cheap product being shipped across the ocean - boats cannot travel empty. It's not safe, and not efficient, they have to be loaded. So if a ship brings a load of bauxite to Argentina, there needs to be something, ANYTHING, waiting at the harbour to fill that boat up again before it can leave. In fact, during WWII, when the US was sending thousands of liberty class container ships full of food and goods to support the British, those ships had to be loaded with something for the return trip. Many were simply loaded with large amounts of rocks and dirt, which was promptly dumped off the coast of the US on their return. So if a country is currently importing a lot more than they're exporting, in terms of filled shipping containers, they absolutely have to find something to export to establish balance.

[@explosivo666]

The containers themselves also need to be shipped back, which would be costly if it was an empty one.

[@georgeheppel8413]

This would be relevant were it not for the fact that Argentina is a major net exporter of agricultural products, as highlighted in the video. Empty containers probably isn't an issue.

[@gabrielfraser2109]

@@georgeheppel8413 But we don't know what they import. They might import an enormous amount of fertilizer, among so many other things. They might import cement, coal, steel, or other commodities that take up huge amounts of shipping space. Their agricultural exports are mainly beef, to Asia and the US, and beef requires relatively little shipping space, compared to it's value.

[@georgeheppel8413]

@@gabrielfraser2109 I work in commodities. In 2019, Argentina imported 32 million tonnes of materials (mostly mineral fuels, oil seeds, fertilisers and ores). In the same year they exported 127 million tonnes of materials (mostly agricultural products and cereals). Like I said: empty containers probably is not an issue. Source: IHS

[@delicioushomemadestrawberr8730]

A very similar thing happened with Chile and the nitrate trade. During world War 1, before it was found that it could be created from air, Chile sold a lot of nitrate sulfate, but the ships couldn't come empty, so they came filled with logs that were used to build the mines themselves

[@SandyRiverBlue]

As a pear grower in the US, you can make more money selling your product as a locally grown one than as a bulk consumable. A great example of this is honey. Here in Oregon, you'll find locally made honey at boutique shops (and some alternative coffee shops for some reason). A jar of honey at the grocery store will run you anywhere from $4-$5. A jar of equivalently sized locally sourced honey can go for anywhere from $12-$30 depending on the type.

[@goldflores7664]

So more expensive for lower quality?

[@SandyRiverBlue]

@@goldflores7664 Right. Quality is an ineffable thing, that is not quantifiable. People will pay more for marred fruit if you tell them it's organic, people will pay more for ugly fruit if you tell them it's an heirloom varietal. People will pay double the amount for the exact same honey you can buy anywhere else if you tie it to a place they love (for example, "This is clover honey from the Oregon Coast"). A lot of the time though these small producers do have a higher quality in their product and the larger producers of lower quality fruit might be destination growers, meaning that their fruit is intended for one particular purchaser; a single winemaker, syrup producer, etc.

[@TheRealFreznoBob]

You can make dimes per unit and sell tens of thousands or make a penny a unit and sell tens of millions. Neither is right and you have to pick your markets.

[@bubba842]

@@SandyRiverBlue alot of honey comes from China via Vietnam or Indonesia. Your local honey will be better than the mass produced supermarket stuff that has been shipped around the world. Plus the benefits for people with seasonal allergies is a no brainer. People who eat local honey suffer less from seasonal allergies due to the local pollen used by the Bees.

[@mawlinzebra]

Pasteurized honey is basically trash. Raw honey is where it's at.

[@danielbat9887]

"I promise to make this video funny"; Proceeds to make pun and "Among us" joke within 10 seconds. funniest man in Britain

[@karaiwonder]

I think I missed the joke :(

[@lukasvoorhis6964]

1:40 watch a little of it

[@lukasvoorhis6964]

@@karaiwonder about 5 seconds after the comment I posted, but just click on the timestamp

[@JmKrokY]

Haha jokes

[@priyanshugoel3030]

Is the country of Britain just generally comedy deficient or it was really that funny.

[@elgordobondiola]

"Valuable argentinian money" *Shows monopoly dollars* Ya me está gustando este tipo

[@francobecvort960]

Como argentino, confirmo que capaz el papel de monopoly vale mas que un billete de 2 pesos, ah para, ya no existe ese

[@argentin2306]

@@francobecvort960 acordate que ya tampoco existe el de 5 pesos, a este paso no va a existir el de 50

[@lean4470]

-Hola me puede dar una coca? -sisi, son 4 millones de pesos -no tengo cambio, te conformás con bolívares?

[@elgordobondiola]

No quisiera bardearme a mi mismo, pero los pavos del Fortnite Valen más que el peso

[@francobaldoni5800]

Vengo del futuro, le terminamos sacando 25 ceros mas a la moneda y mas o menos el 35% del pais migró a otros paises latinoamericanos

[@gianb3952]

This is innaccurate, Monopoly money is worth more than the Argentina Peso

[@quarol732]

La parte más graciosa es que no es un chiste, es un hecho

[@kindofhuman8147]

*Looks up USD to Argentinian Peso* Holy shi-

[@unplov]

@@kindofhuman8147 and thats the official price not the "dolar blue"

[@sebastianocano3289]

As Argentinian I can confirm

[@PocketOMoxie]

Haha look up 1 USD to Venezuelan Bolívars

[@tonai]

I've seen an IKEA product: a part of a desk, that have been Produced in Lithuania, packed in Chile and then delivered back to Poland (which borders Lithuania)

[@simmansu]

ДСП должно дозреть

[@qwoolrat]

LITHUANIA MENTIONED 🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹

[@Redtreevortex]

This man can talk about pears and make it interesting, good job man.

[@nabri-nfg3262]

For 11 1/2 minutes

[@Nikolapoleon]

PEARS ARE INTERESTING.

[@niclassunde3941]

So it would appear.

[@RomaInvicta202]

Only his video is full of mistakes, like suggestion that there are no seasons in Argentina

[@michaelbujaki2462]

He didn't do it fast enough, I went to 2x speed.

[@jackotaco5054]

As a Swede i can confirm that our average temperature is minus a billion

[@futureshock382]

Bit chilly eh?

[@Antrolf]

And that's just in the south

[@appleslover]

By that logic, Hawaii is minus a gazillion because it's more to the North than Sweden..

[@anecann]

As an Argentine I can confirm that the region of Argentina he is talking about where the lower temp is -30ºc is "warm and sunny all the time". Funny enough is where all the Sweden colonist went to live.

[@Kromiball]

@@appleslover As a geography nerd, my brain is freezing.

[@renaigh]

My mum is a professional barber.

[@purplebeast8536]

This comments gonna blow up i know it

[@8292-d6n]

Is this the infamous barber paradox?

[@swiftrebooted7704]

Hair or it didn't happen

[@g4fly4ever8]

@@giddots is joke

[@sub2yeehaw514]

Wow your family has history

[@ThePsychoExe]

This is basically what we learned in our college class on logistics, meaning that this is college level educational content for free. Let that sink in guys

[@wayback1010]

... welcome to the internet

[@ekothesilent9456]

And you paid literal thousands of dollars for it. Aka you got scammed.

[@kapadocia-sama3449]

@@ekothesilent9456 outside of US education is often free, it really sucks for you to have to pay for it

[@42carlos]

College is free too though. Except if you live in the American dystopia

[@Oneiroi0]

​@@ekothesilent9456How to tell you are American or not without you telling it yourself. In my country, not only did the university are free, I get PAID for it. (As long as I maintain a relatively normal grade ofc)

[@Da_cocobong]

“Valuable argentinian money” is an oxymoron

[@myenglishisbadpleasecorrec5446]

jajajajaja

[@posokay5905]

Gracias a este comentario sé que es un oximoron

[@Da_cocobong]

@@posokay5905; Un gusto rey, que tengas un buen día.

[@__beinluv]

😔

[@Omega14343]

Aqui vas a la tienda y necesitas 200 pesos para un chupetin 💀

[@prophetsspaceengineering2913]

Fun fact, Germany (of all nations!) had a nuclear-powered freighter at some point. It was by design pretty damn efficient. What happened? The public (*everywhere*) threw a fit and proclaimed that it might explode like a nuclear bomb (it could not). So the ship was banned from entering harbours and essential shipping routes as governments were protested into taking action. Environmentalism a few decades ago meant being pro-Dieselships apparently.

[@Singleraxis]

It's a damn shame how the public image of nuclear power is harmed by the reckless chernobyl reactor and Fukushima which was an unfortunate accident at an unfortunate time.

[@cesariojpn]

4 Nuclear Cargo Ships existed at one point. US, Japan, Germany, and Russia made them.

[@prophetsspaceengineering2913]

@@cesariojpn Interesting. Didn't know that. What was the other 3 ships' fate?

[@davidpereira5969]

Whats funnier is how nuclear power is the standard for icebreakers, and those guys roam in prety bad conditions and weather while pumping out tons of power to move

[@nicositio54]

Isn't Germany like the most dumb anti nuclear place in the world? They are great in a lot of areas, but the decommissioning of nuclear power plants was really dumb

[@sonkeschluter3654]

i once got angry about Asparagus from Chile out of season here in Germany. Then i did some research and found out that producing it was the reason for huge life quality improvement for farmers there. Didn't feel so bad about it afterwards.

[@NoxxeRArt]

Not just the farmers, but the entire country. I am Chilean, and my country's economy is being held by mostly agricultural and ore exports. If one day all countries we ship things suddenly dont need more of our products, the economy shatters.

[@SievertSchreiber]

I once had the same feeling about strawberries in Europe during the winter. Why can’t we grow them ourselves I asked. Turns out that even our best greenhouses in Europe aren’t up to the task in that time of year. That’s why our supermarkets sell strawberries from Israel, Africa or Southern America during the winter. Luckily they also cost more than in the summer, when local produce isn’t available

[@Bigyugo]

We are thr best country of Chile man!! (only chileans get this joke)

[@ezed8748]

@@NoxxeRArt lo mismo en el otro lado de los andes pa, si dicem "nah, cultivamos mosotros" cagamos fuego

[@paticusmaximus12]

Asparagus is labor intensive. Its a hassle

[@manu3l246]

Argentina is a temperate weather country. North Argentina's weather might be similar to Brazil but pears in Argentina are grown in Patagonia which is a colder region in the South. Just to clarify, Most Argentinians live in the center region, where it doesn't regularly snow but still have four seasons and winters are cold.

[@nachorodriguez6380]

I was looking for this. In the video, Argentina is described like it is some kind of tropical country when in fact it's not.

[@FedericoPalma]

Tenemos una particularidad que hace que la gente de otras partes del mundo no entienda, y es que somos un pais largo de Norte a Sur. Y de hecho Patagonia también es una región muy extendida en ese sentido y es mas por una cuestión política que ambiental. El Alto Valle del Río Negro está justo en la transición entre la Pampa Seca y la Estepa Patagónica propiamente dicha. La gente decis Patagonia y piensa en Ushuaia, Calafate y Bariloche que ya de por si son entornos muy diferentes.

[@LameLoura]

I’m from Thailand. You can say that these are the fruits of our labor.

[@mr.fatcatnewsitti8534]

เช่นกันครับ

[@Red-jl7jj]

lmao

[@srta.carlota696]

lmfaaoo i love it

[@kittinanpakboon8129]

555

[@MultiMarcos98]

You got the hidden part, sir.

[@YeppyNope]

When he said "A day ending in Y" i actually stopped and thought if theres actually a day that doesn't end in Y

[@alexsiemers7898]

Tomorrow

[@datdamndog389]

@@alexsiemers7898 Tommoroew is sunday

[@watchableraven3517]

@@datdamndog389 Tomorrow is a day in of itself

[@datdamndog389]

@@watchableraven3517 I mean not really, its never exact, its always referencing another day, but it itself isnt a day, tommorow now is saturday, but tommorow when it is saturday, you dont call it tommorow anymore, then its sunday, tommorow is referencing a day, but isnt a day

[@watchableraven3517]

@@datdamndog389 It is always a day, but not a specific one.

[@joshuacollins385]

6:30 "The inside of a dark metal shipping container is naturally cold." You'll want to look into that more. Temperatures inside a shipping container at sea can vary a lot depending on route and sun exposure, but often get very warm.

[@zKINGv9399psn]

And I was wondering; yeah it’s better for the carbon footprints bringing them from over seas, but once they hit America and is shipped to 50 states doesn’t that just cancel out the entire process of being better for the pollution

[@elcidgaming]

As someone who worked in Maersk middle American Cluster team in Manila I would agree with you! NO FOOD has EVER been shipped using a normal container. It literally is an add on (refrigerated containers - we used Spanish terms and I forget what it exactly was)

[@elcidgaming]

@@zKINGv9399psn well imagine shipping it VIA truck through the countries.. Yes let that sink in. How much more carbon will that be??? You get my point? It does NOT cancel it out cause you will have to move it from Ar to Thai to US anyway whatever way you can. its a non negotiable. How does it cancel out anything to do that part most efficient way possible And besides Carbon emissions is NEVER the consideration here but what is cheaper and more efficient for a well oiled production line - and most of the time the more efficient way turns out to be the most carbon efficient way..

[@jaydenforrest2006]

@@zKINGv9399psn yeah but the same would happen regardless of the prior route

[@zKINGv9399psn]

@@jaydenforrest2006 exactly, so my confusion comes from why would he mention it being better for the environment getting the shipment from over seas?

[@babbabooey1176]

2:35 As an Argentinian, lemme tell you that no, we aren't Brazil. In some parts of Argentina, down south, it can get as cold as northern Europe in winter. Why tf do you people think we're some tropical hippy paradise when we *literally* have a snowy mountain range and a frozen southern tip, and a somewhat warm north. Sorry about this seeming like a rant, but it is ridiculous on your part

[@srta.carlota696]

because our country is in South America, so most americans will think the countries are similar🤷🏻‍♀️. That's why we don't get as much tourism from US compared to tourism from Europe or Asia. Plane tickets are expensive, so the further the destination is, the more $$ it costs. So probably most US tourist will just go to maybe Colombia and fly back to their homes. Afterall it's south america so it must be all kinda the same..🤣

[@lonelystage6139]

@@srta.carlota696 cerra el orto

[@eaksdmj]

@@srta.carlota696 he is from UK

[@skywalker5219]

thisss

[@miink1861]

@@srta.carlota696 He’s very obviously From the UK and not the United States

[@keremdelialioglu2197]

Talking about Argentina as a "warm county that's sunny all the time" makes a lot of people mad

[@anecann]

The region where pears are grown in Argentina reach -30ºC so is not exactly "warm and sunny all the time".

[@TheChrisEMartin]

Agreed. Try living in Ushuaia.......I have seen snow showers on the hill slopes above the city even in summer.

[@fencino]

i live in San Antonio Oeste, its above 20°C for like 3 months then it just stays below 10°C for the rest of the Year

[@ignemuton5500]

It usually comes from europeans and americans whose concept of the world is "south hot north cold" because they live in the northern hemisphere, so many of them dont know that argentina's weather can be as tough as mongolia's

[@bardocomunista]

Laughs in -6 degree's

[@stefan6347]

Ah yes yes, I learned this in Economy class. Narrator: he forgets 90% of Economy class.

[@DadgeCity]

Economics?

[@MikeTheEntei]

@@DadgeCity No. Economy class.

[@mhkpt]

I'm a European, and remember when I worked in Brazil how mangoes were basically free, and the "exotic fruits" section had PEACHES lol

[@supersmilyface1]

I'd love to compare prices of some exotic fruits here in the US to the prices where they're grown in other countries. I bet dragon fruit is a heck of a lot cheaper if you buy them from the countries they come from (and they're probably better tasting). It's currently $6 for a single dragon fruit at my local grocery stores, $4 if they're on sale (which is usually when the stock is low and they're about to go bad anyway). Pomegranates are also kind of pricey ($3.50 a piece) until the ones from California (which are also larger) reach the stores here ($2.50-$1.75 a piece).

[@theoneandonlyartyom]

same on northern argentina, theres so much mangoes here we throw them away but in buenos aires its like 2 usd each

[@gambiando]

@@supersmilyface1 tell me what you want to know, I live in Brazil. Mango, lime, watermelon, pineapple, orange, banana, etc are almost free here. I pay like 0.5 usd in 1 kilo of Thai lime. Prices also depends on the season, if you buy in the right time it will be cheap. The craziest part is that Brazilians don't eat fruits that much.

[@mrrobot4951]

Ñ

[@theoneandonlyartyom]

@@mrrobot4951 ñ tu vieja

[@reidevanson181]

"And believe me, big fruit companies aren't going to be paying people to sit around doing nothing. These are the people who overthrew Latin American governments for 2% higher profits." - BritMonkey Its funny because its true

[@adrianopairetti3417]

i am so deprived of content about my country (argentina) that i clicked on this as soon as i saw it and it was pretty cool, loved how you talked about how of agriculture was good

[@ikkue]

Same here but I'm from Thailand lol

[@juanmanuel7305]

La mejor carne y verduras del muno están acá, orgullo nacional.

[@bilbobaggins6251]

Your name is literally Pearetti its meant to be

[@perlagrecco]

YO IGUAL JAJAJA yo tipo "nooo man hablan de argentina, a ver" Como que a nadie le importa argentina y ver un video del pais es una cosa de locos

[@veirvena2062]

Down bad for reasons to be more nationalistic

[@axelprino]

As an Argentinian hearing you say that we barely have seasons is a cruel joke when in my experience we have pretty drastic changes in weather throughout the year and we have very distinct weathers in each region of the country.

[@anecann]

"Fuits are produce all year around". "Argentina is warm and sunny all the time". Clear indication he doesn't know shit. He believes we live in the equator.

[@colourfulbees]

where im from in argentina we barely have seasons

[@carpii0576]

@@colourfulbees donde?

[@3417gekkou]

well known tropical country Argentina what with its claim of being closest to Antarctica

[@betterstayout0]

@@carpii0576 misiones, tal vez? >

[@CatSans]

As an argentine, this is the most exquisite pear video I have ever seen.

[@francescamarmol4360]

As an argentine I had no idea we even grew pears

[@dogesanic819]

As a latin american i didnt even know we had the money to export stuff lmao

[@francescamarmol4360]

@@dogesanic819 that's basically our main source of income lol

[@CatSans]

@@dogesanic819 LMAO, yeah but most third would countries are "periphery", meaning they export the stuff that then gets made into bigger and better stuff (like cotton turned into a shirt)

[@Coolskeleton2030]

Same

[@syafiqaszamin6411]

In Malaysia and Indonesia, we don't use packed fruit for Rojak 😂 we use freshly cut fruit. I don't even know there's packed pear. And our pear in the market is usually unripe and need a few days for it's to ripe

[@thanosal-titan]

Also I think we never use Pear for making Rujak, lol

[@WannzKaswan]

And it's pronounced roJAK with a J not rooyak

[@capitalcoffee7514]

Kind of reminds me how I once bought a bottle of soy sauce and it was: Beans were grown in the US/Canada. Soy sauce was made in Japan. And the sauce was bottled in Denmark. And I bought it in Finland.

[@gabrielfraser2109]

It would have travelled in steel barrels from Japan. If it had been bottled in Japan, the added weight of the glass bottles would probably vastly outweigh any benefits. And it's not like you could have made the Soy Sauce in Denmark, they simply do not have the specialised skills for it. But I'd bet Denmark is the primary point for distributing that product across Europe. The US and Canada are extremely efficient soy producers, and Japan has precious little farmland. So I suspect every link in that supply chain was carefully chosen.

[@AEAG9YT_]

_M r . w o r l d w i d e_

[@freeman10000]

I had a couple of options for disposable razors 1. Made in USA, assembled in Mexico, packed in China 2. Made, assembled and packed in Vietnam

[@fumothfan9]

Tbf asian countries love their sauces. Theres one fermented fish one that has like several bottles. $5 $15 and a $100 one like regular beet craft beer and champagane.

[@Valeforer]

I am an argentinian with many friends on the UK and USA and I always explain our economy and issues with getting international shipping as "we have monopoly money". I feel SO VALIDATED.

[@v1b3z77]

I'm honestly surprised anyone talked about the country and got this much attention lol

[@suqadiqniwa]

ERMAHGERD CRIES IN HYPERINFLAMACION ESCROTAL

[@jannikheidemann3805]

So, what do you use to store monetary value when you don't have to use Argentinian money?

[@suqadiqniwa]

@@jannikheidemann3805 euro, crypto, devaluated amurican dollas, gold if youre nasty rich, some even invest in stocks (if you had the blessing of having parents that actually care for you and teach you stock market shit and finances)

[@v1b3z77]

@@suqadiqniwa I was able to move out in 2015, I've been in Canada ever since, it baffles me how much more shit happens as time passes, I remember 10 pesos being a fortune to me when I was in school ;-;

[@Tophiachuuu]

When I was a chef I worked in Brisbane, Australia we had local caught prawns that would be shipped to Vietnam to be peeled and then they'd send them back. Was cheaper to catch prawns and send them overseas to be peeled rather then pay an Aussie to peel them. The power of slave Labor.

[@imperatornoinga3646]

Yay globalism!

[@gingeralice3858]

I am American and I heard a story about chicken like that one time... I don't know if it was true or not but I heard American raised chicken is deboned in China. Frozen and sent back here to be dispersed across the US and eaten. I figured that sounded like a rumor but this video has me thinking twice about chicken again now

[@silentsketcher_97]

Coles brand razors were at one point manufactured in China, sent to Mexico for assembly and packed in Australia. What a journey.

[@pumpkinhill4570]

I’m sure they needed to ripen on the way.

[@YCorpManager]

as a vietnamese i have nothing to say

[@nahuwu]

As an Argentine, I think that comparing our currency with that of Monopoly is...accurate

[@gg2324]

as a turk I feel you

[@williamdare9970]

Surely by definition nowhere can grow anything exotic?

[@-haclong2366]

Yep, exotic literally means "foreign".

[@croma2068]

Yes, unless your view of the world is so eurocentric that "exotic" means "not from Europe"

[@jeffjeff8750]

@@croma2068 Yeah it’s not like we are European people speaking a European language

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

The only place truly exotic is an alien planet but I don’t think interstellar shipping of fruits will be a problem for a very very long time.

[@Untoldanimations]

@@croma2068 In China the word “alien” is used to mean people not from China. Wow so sinocentric for people in Chinese to use a Chinese word to refer to people not from China. All language are place-of-origin-centric

[@juanflys]

I was born and lived in Argentina for 30 years now. In fact I am from “El valle” the region where pears are grown. OUR SEASONS ARE VERY DIFFERENT! in fact every winter farmers need to cover their trees to avoid freezing….weather has nothing to do here…

[@princeofdew8980]

Haven't you heard? We are tropical and seasons don't exist here.

[@juanbru_]

aguante el valle

[@juli3836]

They really think we are super hot all year round 😄 Sometimes, in the south of the country, it snows in summer!

[@BelaCoxinha]

@@juli3836 same in Brazil!

[@ketokeko]

@@juli3836 yeah like wtf 😭😭😭 how ignorant can some people be at the extent when it comes to our side of America, i live in corrientes which is subtropicall yell we still get to pretty low grades, the lowest i had is 1 and normally it can get to 4, idk if that's pretty high tho..

[@b-don7930]

"argentina warm all year" oh no, nonoon, and most pears are grown in Rio negro, anything but warm

[@shakezmaybe3192]

Ayoooo black river man?

[@masterofwriters4176]

This is why tarrifs can fuck you up.

[@carkid266]

Bloody hell mate your humor in the vids and the good examples makes this glorius. U need 3 mil subs man

[@Pirokotchky]

Only 3 mil?

[@swilwerth]

Fun fact. Many competitive farmer pools of Argentina are owned by foreign capitals. So if you think the pears are own by Argentina, you're wrong.

[@musicadesconocida]

Companies doesn't care about that, the problem is that regulations make so hard to fire people so in Argentina you don't hire, you adopte workers, so they prefer to spend money carrying the food to the other half of the world instead of invest in Argentina. Also ambientalist here hates any industrial waste, so they prefer to contaminate the sea, the industrial waste being done in other country and the biggest revenue for f**king Thailand instead of our own country.

[@larar.5167]

That's how it works in the entire world unless you are doing subsistence farming agriculture.

[@spacetoast7783]

Nobody thinks that the government owns the majority of farms in most countries.

[@johng8837]

@ٛ but they're rarely owned by Argentinians. It's usually a Chinese or American company with American managers, ceos etc.

[@johng8837]

@ٛ if Googles headquarters were based in India or Google was a child company owned by a large Indian conglomerate then yes. Most of the industrial scale farms are owned by a larger company not based in Argentina and as such property of it. Yes- it geographically based in Argentina but legally it's not run by or owned by Argentina

[@annurissimo1082]

8:00 Different idea: Calculate amount of pears by VOLUME, not weight. Considering the (relatively) low density of pears, I think the volume of the pears in a container would be a bigger problem than weight. A 33.3 cubic meter container could only hold around 12000 pears. (Taken at 8 fluid ounces per pear)

[@veme2857]

You could have done the calculus, now i'm frustrated

[@theEtch]

you're forgetting about the hollow gaps between the pears

[@annurissimo1082]

@@theEtch I took away 10% as an estimate of how much is lost due to air. Might calculate the packing density of pears later, idk

[@fitmotheyap]

Probs was easier to do weight,for some reason google can't find anything about pears in volume for me

[@lachlanlandreth9069]

While a volume would be a closer calculation, it depends if they are shipped in reusable plastic pallets, timber pallets or timber pallets with cardboard sides or in fruit boxes stacked on pallets. These all take up diffrent amount of space. Yes they also get included in the weight. But the rates of containers are dictated by weight. Yes most container companies will have a flat rate so if you ship, say rolls of prebubbled bubble wrap, they do not loose money on a pure by weight system.

[@a564-c3q]

6:00 Then why aren't the pears from Asia packed in Argentina but also in Thailand as you mentioned earlier ("since they're close")? These both arguments contradict each other. 6:29 Wrong, these containers need cooling. Another argument that's a fallacy. The pears could just stay 1 - 2 weeks longer attached to the tree and then could be processed and packed in Argentina. However since labor is much cheaper in Thailand processing and packing the peas is way cheaper there, even after the transportation cost. (Whereas the processing is the most labor intensive, not really the packing.) Well, at least this used to make sense from an economic point of view when transportation was still dirt cheap. Of course for the environment and climate this senseless shipping around is bad - and so is this video. Poor research.

[@mrlarvux]

Yeah, they don’t need a transportation to Thailand to ripen. You could always just pick the pears from the tree before the transport arrives lol.

[@szechuan.sheridan1670]

“Do you too live on a pathetic godless rainy island that can’t grown anything exotic” Ah yes T A S M A N I A

[@Burger19985]

i swear to god its like those fuckers on the other side of the river are the only ones who get the sun

[@TheTheTheTheTheThe]

I live in Tasmania and was literally thinking this when he said that

[@itsMe_TheHerpes]

hello Tasmania, how are you today ?

[@supersmilyface1]

I may not live on a pathetic godless rainy island that can't grow anything exotic, but I do live in the pathetic godless rainy land-locked state of Ohio that can't grow anything exotic, but we're trying our best to take over the world, one soybean at a time.

[@seanreynolds7369]

*Laughs in Qld*

[@simonixio]

Argentinian here, please refrain from saying “valuable Argentinian money” as it’s an oxymoron. The current exchange rate is $1 USD = $186 Argentinian pesos so yeah, pretty worthless…

[@carpii0576]

10 yers ago it was like 8 pesos per dollar

[@simonixio]

@@carpii0576 in the 90s it was 1 peso = 1 dollar

[@Shrek_es_mi_pastor]

@@simonixio Please don't tell me you're saying the 90's were good times

[@josegonzales9169]

@@simonixio Even though that fucked up Argentina's economy

[@garramiro]

@@Shrek_es_mi_pastor long live Carlos Saúl the first.

[@Lim_Eric]

As an Indonesian it's actually pronounced roo-jack with a J, and I've never seen that product here or any other kinds of packaged fruit in fruit syrup, I don't think products like that is popular here. We do have some similarly packaged products tho, small plastic cups and sachets everywhere, but they're not processed fruits. It is true tho that we import in a lot of fruits here but they're sold fresh, I believe the majority of Indonesian crops are turned into other products rather than being consumed directly. And from what I've gathered living here, refrigerator is a very common household equipment in Indonesia. Other than that, excellent video, very informative and well packed. Love your content!

[@puvendranpillay3096]

As a Malaysian, I second that!

[@johndoh3353]

@@puvendranpillay3096 what’s Malaysian food like?

[@elstain5215]

@@johndoh3353 am indonesian, lived in malaysia for a while. Both are godtier and pretty similar

[@Davis...]

I too stand with your statement as I am an Indonesian

[@s4und3rs_highhms47]

As a Singaporean, it’s pronounced ROJAK

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Interesting in Alabama pears next door rotted on the ground… they never touched them

[@daraamadea4413]

It's a good take and I appreciate it, but I think the Rujak part is quite a stretch because Rujak is always served with local fruits and is meant to be a cheap dish. In my entire life as an Indonesia, I've never had any "fancy fruit" like pears served as a Rujak. Chopped, syrup dipped fruit is also not popular here, especially imported ones, because it's way more expensive than local fruits and at the same price we can get imported fresh fruits from Thailand or East Asia.

[@ergwertgesrthehwehwejwe]

It still makes Thailand have factories that are also suitable for canning pears.

[@ywoisug8845]

It's weird that in some places in the world pears or apples are seen as fancy lol

[@daraamadea4413]

@@ywoisug8845 yeah it's not native to tropical regions so it's more expensive as it needs to be imported. I was also surprised knowing that some cheap fruits I can easily get at local store is called "exotic fruit" and priced higher in some other countries.

[@ClaviHaze]

in the video is meant to say that since Rujak is made with the packaging ingredient, it's readily available for the pears, not that Rujak is made with pears.

[@karinasurbakti5730]

​@@ywoisug8845 while in "another" some place also think tropical fruits as fancy fruits 😂😂

[@karliask]

To be clear: Argentinian Economy is not purely based in agriculture, at some point it was, but now it goes arround other things. Another thing i wanted to clarify is that the quality of anything grown in here is good, specially since we have 1 province that has a really good temperature, humidity and one of the best dirt in the world, that is: La Pampa

[@cuddlemuffin.9545]

Exports are dependent on agricultural products

[@laurenz2426]

Funny Pampa is a dialect word for middle of nowhere in my language

[@belthesheep3550]

@@laurenz2426 It's a bit of a meme here in Argentina that la pampa doesn't actually exist, apparently it's also a joke in french and german for some reason

[@ezed8748]

La what? As a argentine i can confirm that la pampa doesnt exist, its a myth like wyoming

[@urgh608]

@@laurenz2426 French you ?

[@sushicat999]

Hello, argentinian here, this is so interesting! I had no clue about how big our pear industry was, I thought it was only local

[@WTXYN]

u can ask córdoba about peanuts

[@argentin2306]

Yo me enteré de esto hace unos años como un dato curioso, de que éramos el país que más peras exportaba (no confundir con el país que más peras producía, como se mostró en este video), además, también como dijo el comentario de arriba, pregúntale a Tucumán hacia donde van la mayoría de los limones que producen

[@sushicat999]

@@argentin2306 siii, sabia lo de los limones tucumanos y las manzanas de la patagonia, pero no se, no habia pensado en las peras jaja

[@lubu2960]

I think we should teach in high-school what our provinces usually produce and where to

[@ikkue]

Thanks for shipping them to us here in Thailand to pack 🙏

[@batshit36]

Honestly the most environmentally damaging part of the cup of pears is the plastic it’s packaged in

[@TheLegend2T]

Dole: you know Argentina has some good ass pears “Ok” Dole: and thailand has the BEST ASS LEMON JUICE “Uhh… alright?” Dole: do you see where I’m going with this? “No”

[@lostbutfreesoul]

Careful, this sort of talk is how you end up with a Banana Republic.

[@thegames4565]

@@lostbutfreesoul Reject oil return to banana

[@spinyslasher6586]

*Takes over the nations's government to produce more food*

[@Sammie1053]

I'm sure this has already been mentioned repeatedly, but: On the environmental impact of transportation, it's important to remember that it's not truck transport _or_ cargo shipping, it's truck transport or truck transport _and_ cargo shipping. The United States is big and only has cargo ports on the coast (obviously). Rail freight accounts for a tiny fraction of US domestic freight, so unless the final destination of those pears is in the port where they came ashore, they're going to end up on a cross-country truck either way. Admittedly, you now only have one truck journey instead of two, but it's certainly not zero.

[@gravityissues5210]

> Rail freight accounts for a tiny fraction of US domestic freight Rail freight accounts for 28%. Today I learned that more than a quarter of something is a "tiny fraction." At least when you want to hammer on a point, I guess. Also helps to make up facts, like your assertion that the fruit is making its way cross-country on a truck, which it most likely is not. It's most likely making its way cross-country on a train, then being delivered locally by truck.

[@RedQuill13]

@@gravityissues5210 trains are more expensive to ship with and can tale longer. I've seen produce get shipped by truck but never by train. I live by a rail road btw.

[@Racc-Kun_YT]

@@gravityissues5210 Fruit can last pretty easily in long distance trucking as it will be inside of a refrigerated trailer. It is probably more common by train but its unlikely that trucks don't do it. It would probably be more likely that a mass amount of trucks are loaded at each stop and they then drive a few hours-days to their locations making it a mix of both truck and train moving them long distance before they reach a local truck.

[@feloniousbutterfly]

Also keep in mind that there are government subsidies for various modes of transport: mainly ones that use oil. The reason it's so expensive to move stuff via rail is mainly because they refused to improve or subsidize the rail system because oil use makes more money for certain people. Most of the reason nothing seems to make sense in how anything works is because somebody somewhere demanded it work a certain way so they could make more money.

[@juliabarrow-hemmings6624]

I like how everyone in this thread has agreed that trains are somehow more expensive to ship with then a truck... Despite being more efficient in every way... The only issue is that America has god awful train infrastructure, also even if you live near a train line, that doesn't mean its for freight nor does it mean it would be delivered to a store via train, since then the store would need to be on the line, the train would take it to a depot where trucks would then finally take it to the store or warehouse or where-ever, and while yes, this means you have a whole 3 forms of transport, it does limit how much the truck needs to actually do and thus would still be better for then environment overall. Especially since electric trains are... Kinda just a thing unlike electric trucks (No the terrible Tesla truck does not count)

[@mafiousbj]

I'm from the region in Argentina where those pears are harvested and I remember the local newspaper was the only one covering these news....national ones never cared. Funny thing is that we buy back those packed pears for baby food at a much MUCH higher price than what we sell them...no wonder my country is getting poorer every year....adding no value to primary goods is not the way to go

[@Coolskeleton2030]

True

[@wanderingthewastes6159]

If it was cheaper or more economically viable someone would open a packaging plant in your country.

[@mafiousbj]

@@wanderingthewastes6159 here is corrupt as F*** and we have rampant inflation because of it....no foreign or local company would invest here ^^

[@wanderingthewastes6159]

MafiousBJ rlx que tô no mesmo saco hermano XD, mas dai essa parte é com a gente. Vamos ver no que dá depois dessa eleição que cês tiveram, espero que o teu pessoal acorde. Tamo junto e boa sorte.

[@juampyvarela]

Welcome to capitalism, we're the peripheral country 🥲

[@UseFreeSpeech]

6:28 one small mistake, a shipping container will not stay cool. The fruits are shiped in refrigerated containers

[@mattperry1155]

The pears don't magically appear in the shop after being shipped around the world, They will also spend a significant amount of time in a truck.

[@philgreen7498]

Exactly. And how do they get from the tree to the cargo ship? Trucks.

[@itsgonnabeanaurfromme]

That's why he showed the chart of the distribution of the supply chain, dear

[@guillermoblanco286]

I'd like to point out that mega farms although being more efficient regarding co2 emissions are also harmful for the environment. Big plots of land with the same crop tend to be more susceptible to pests and they require the use of pesticides and other harmful chemicals. This monocrop farms are very simplistic environments that push away plants an fauna which are very important for the trophic net of the environmnet in which the farm is located, whereas small plots of land where crops are diverse allow for a richer trophic net to develop since different crops grow in different seasons and are harvested and ploughed at different points of the year among many other factors. CO2 emisions, although important, shouldn't be the only way to measure the way agriculture is harmful to the environment.

[@argentin2306]

@engineer main yeah, also, what people doesn't realized is how safe pesticides have gotten now compared to before, I'm not saying that you can drink it and have a shower with it, it is still poison, but it is way better than before, and are getting better and better

[@guillermoblanco286]

@engineer main Pear trees, as most trees are hybrid clones. Large areas of clones of the same tree would be VERY susceptible to pests and diseases, so what difference does it make if we're talking about pears and not cereals? Moreover, trees are substituted every 5 to 10 years after planting, whereas rotation makes cereals easier to manage anually. If you have wheat this year, just sow another tipe of crop next year to keep some pest and weeds in check.

[@guillermoblanco286]

@@argentin2306 pesticides, despite being not as harmful to humans, don't just affect the target pests, they affect other insects and plants that are important and beneficial to the environment. Eliminating these plants and insects has a negative effect on the organisms that need them so survive like insectivorous birds and bees, for example. Anyway this is beside the point that I'm making where I said that monocrop mega farms should not be deem as good for the environment just due to the fact that their carbon footprint is lower than smaller sized farms.

[@guillermoblanco286]

@engineer main that's what rotating is. Fruit is a crop. They rotate from apples to say alfalfa. That's a rotation. It's a long term, but it is. Still, not what I was talking about.

[@MazHem]

There's a U shaped graph of production as well which is interesting, smaller farms which can invest in more human work on the plants, typically have the same yields as larger farms who invest in technology, the worst part for yields is midsize farms. But yeah also larger farms frequently remove important animal corridors like hedges. The best option is probably for large farm co-ops or similar situations where a lot of individual farmers can access better help and regular pay. (Arla for example)

[@sarahludwig1947]

Pears don't have to be picked 2 weeks before they are ripe. They can ripen on the tree just fine, and they may actually taste better if allowed to. They are picked early because of the shipping time, so that they will arrive ripe and not rotten. This video implied that pears should be picked early no matter what. It's not a coincidence that pears are picked the perfect amount of time to be shipped to Thailand. It's done on purpose, and it's not a reason that they can't be sent anywhere other than Thailand.

[@JTKK9]

you can not predict when pear drops from the tree while ripeing. thats why its picked early. thats how we done in my father garden.

[@AirLancer]

@@JTKK9 Also a ripe pear is a softer pear, and therefore more likely to become bruised and damaged during shipping and processing.

[@alihorda]

Also if you let it on the tree animals will munch on it, unless you want to pay for somebody to gather every single fruit lol

[@plumage.mp4]

​@@AirLancer still, fresh fruits are kept in freezers anyway, and the sea transported goods are still going on the road afterwards to end up in your supermarket. There is a hole in his reasoning. The biggest takeaway : vegetable based diets are better for the environment that animal products, no matter where they are coming from.

[@timopint1125]

yes. 6:07 he says coincidentally :D a thinking mistake he is doing in every video.

[@EloquentTroll]

As an Iowan, I'm just glad my state was mentioned no matter how badly pronounced. Our capital Des Moines is pronounced Deh Moin. I have my own pear trees and I'm learning to do my own canning. Last year's batch didn't go well, we'll see how this year's batch goes. This video is weirdly aligned to multiple of my special interests, and I had to rewind the video several times because I was looking at Rujak recipes, because it sounds delicious.

[@roniereinwright7477]

i love this guy's timing and editing, exquisite choice of imagery my friend, very memorable

[@karjalatakaisin]

Amongus

[@demonikr1]

Goes from talking about the pear industry to ranting about the inefficiency of roads for transport. Love it

[@sotch2271]

Nobody thinks about trains ? They are even more viable now than ever before and don’t distribute economic activity only in coastal area (hello us, uk, china and brazil

[@redpheonixin.]

This made it SO easy to understand, kinda crazy how I just found your channel

[@lucksku]

As an argentinian, thanks a lot for not making the nth joke about you know which islands... or nazism, when talking about our country. It really means a lot.

[@EnzoDraws]

Most british citizens don't really care about the islands though, at least on the younger side. We argentinians make a huge deal about it but they barely know they exist. "For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. For me, it was Tuesday."

[@T_Kelso]

@@EnzoDraws The Britans who know a bit about recent history will make jokes about it, but yes, most young people are completely ignorant of it.

[@Coolskeleton2030]

Same, i dont really care about those islands joke but the nazism joke are just plain annoying to me

[@T_Kelso]

@@Coolskeleton2030 Haha I see that a lot, I'm not surprised it gets irritating. By the way, is it true that U.S. dollars are valued more than pesos in Argentina?

[@jero10z]

@@T_Kelso 150 pesos are 1 dollar, and the economy is so volatile that everyone is holding their dollars before their prices skyrocket, because they don't want to lose the value of their money. We basically save in dollars.

[@diezgp]

I am grown and seasoned in Argentina and i think the people that complain about the global value chain should grow a pear 🍐🍐. I mean, if they are against trading, they should.

[@mrtetillas7504]

estaria bien no tener no se, como 14 cambios al dolar, quizas eso ayude un poco al comercio pero solo soy un puberto que mira videos de milei asique no tengo ni idea de lo que estoy hablando

[@kermitenthusiast485]

Que?

[@BeanOfBean]

No hablo espanol

[@cosmicdot.]

@@BeanOfBean use the translator

[@kermitenthusiast485]

@@cosmicdot. that's no fun tho

[@Duharharhar]

"fresh" fish in the grocery stores here (Eastern Canada) is caught off the coast of Canada, processed and packed in China, then shipped back to the east coast.

[@supersmilyface1]

What the heck.

[@goldegreen]

That sounds incredibly inefficient.

[@Fausstus]

I loved that “rikki dont lose that number” 8 bit version

[@fakuu122]

I'm argentinian, I work at a critics exporter, we ship fruit to Indonesia, Russia and the Philippines Edit: and yes, fruit farmers here (my best friend is one lol) are always investing in every single thing that looks profitable, that also includes green technology

[@BurdenofTheMighty]

Green tech is going to flop. Trust me on this.

[@BurdenofTheMighty]

Go oil for now

[@mrrobot4951]

Que malo capo te iva escribir Ñ Pero eres argentino chau capo

[@cupcakzbacpud9502]

@@BurdenofTheMighty okay mama moosa

[@australiananarchist480]

@@BurdenofTheMighty Nuclear wont, if the government stopped fucking it over

[@TheGoldenFluzzleBuff]

This video right here. THIS VIDEO. THIS IS WHY I WENT INTO ECONOMICS. You, in one concise video, explained our modern economics/shipping system and why getting outraged at superficial issues without doing any digging into the economics of it is complete lunacy. This is an excellent video. I hope every one watches. Liked, Commented, Subscribed, hit the bell icon, sent to 5 friends, and I WILL be forwarding this to the head of the FED's desk.

[@doggo64]

Why do you look just like me O'doggo

[@MEOWLIFE-jh8yd]

and this is why you dont get laid

[@doggo64]

Says the guy who has username "Meow4Life" lmao

[@potatoesandducks958]

@@MEOWLIFE-jh8yd who?

[@NB-tv4cr]

Dude its packed in Thailand because Dole started their can fruits in Thailand where tropical fruits especially pineapple is abundant and relatively produced in good quality, has stable production quantity year round and, is cheaper (The labor cost back then was relatively cheapest for this somewhat skilled labor intensive industry). Also Thailand is in a strategic area with ports that can go to all continents and has FTA agreements and huge government subsidy (from the BOI) on businesse that supports and exports Thai agriculture. Pears are a minor ingredient and was only later on added to Dole when they had demand for FRUIT SALAD and by USDA Standard pears needs to be added at no less than 25-45%. Naturally pears started being shipped to Thailand and will continue to do so as long as there’s profit to be made. So you can’t just say pear doesn’t make sense or makes sense on its own, you have to look at Dole as a whole.

[@aygtets]

Ah yup. Thought it had to do with Dole. I think a huge amount of the picture is lost without mentioning a massive conglomerate that controls almost all fruit.

[@propellerhead2000]

The production of fruit salad cups are one of the reasons imported red grapes are relatively cheap in Thai grocery stores and markets.

[@reinertgregal1130]

This is actually better explained than the video

[@noco7243]

Dole as a whole. A whole Dole.

[@lubosbeneda8132]

At 8:10 you made a major mistake in calculating weight and not volume of the pears. You would not fit 135k pears into a shipping container. It will be much much less.

[@achuu6917]

"hard earned valuable argentinian money" >valuable

[@raineterni2219]

I would like to argue, that pears in our cellar can stay for almost two months before starting to look a little rotten, when it comes to apples, those can survive the whole winter, unless we decide to make a strudel every weekend. When it comes to other fruits we grow, like apricots, they don't last that long, few weeks in the fridge the longest, but we make them into jams and preserves, or dry them. That way they can last for years (altho we usually eat them all untill another harvesting season). And, different trees of the same fruit ripen in different time depending on the variant. I know it's not the point of this video. Just wanted to point it out.

[@karigrandii]

Yes this! And you dont need to eat fresh fruit 247.. only way to be sustainable is produce everything ourselves. Not only tech, you cant eat iphones

[@zappertxt]

Thank you

[@kaiju3646]

you seem to have a interesting life, Iv always liked the idea of living off of my own land/crops but i was born in a suburb lmfao

[@MsLilly200]

@@kaiju3646 Don't suburbs usually have gardens?? Or is it just lawn grass and there's one of those HOA things I keep hearing about that don't let you plant anything else?

[@itsgonnabeanaurfromme]

That's in YOUR climate, though

[@robertc6701]

Dude. Im from Romania. I have a friend who was in Argentina in vacation and he brought back in Romania some jars with honey. :))) The fun part is that the honey was produced in Romania close to where we live then shipped to Argentina and packed there. I was wtfff is this? :)))

[@StrifeRixa]

So the misunderstanding here is assuming the west is the primary market for pears. It's actually south east Asia which then ships to other places.

[@colorupro]

'Eeowa' lol Good video btw, I enjoyed your coverage of logistics

[@lukasuhlenkamp9850]

For calculating how many pears can fit in a shipping container, I was unsure that the shipping container could hold that many pears volume wise, so i checked. Turns out, a shipping container can also only fit 135,000 (almost exactly) pears. So loading a shipping container with as many pears as possible will also just meet the weight limit.

[@ayw481]

I'm Indonesian and AFAIK we eat mostly fresh fruits (and our rujak are from fresh fruits). And I never saw a packaged diced pear like ever...

[@BAIGAMING]

Sometimes globalization is weird like that. I worked in the linens industry working on machines that stuffed pillows in North America for a long time and I kept thinking that my job would be replaced like most other linens industry jobs. But then I realized something ingenious - they couldn't take my job away because they have to ship the "pillow shells" to North America for them to be filled and sold in North America. *You can't fill the pillows any other place because they will then take an inordinate amount of volume to ship.* So my pillow packing job was safe 😅

[@chrischris1722]

I do want to say from experience that the air inside shipping containers in the tropics in summer can reach up to 70C

[@NiranjanBharadwaj]

Glorious, 60k subs. Just about a week ago it was 50k. You will reach 100k in no time

[@OrigamiMaster06]

I love how it took a whole video to explain one of the simplest concepts in economics

[@Ueiksg]

Well I’ve never thought of it and I doubt most people watching knew this. The people getting angry about it on Twitter clearly didn’t so I think your point is null

[@AthenisOculi]

@@Ueiksg Actually no, it just means most people don't know one of the most basic concept of economics.

[@calebbarnhouse496]

Lol no, it's because they can use labor that is cheaper then slave labor, if you had to pay Chinese workers the same price as American ones, then 90% of factories would shut down and exploit some other poor people elsewhere, but no, the reason for this is simple, labor costs, and price of building a the facilities

[@hoku_ar]

As an Argentinian, I got angry the first time he put a monopoly bill instead of an actual Peso argentino bill but then I remembered he's right.

[@RayZin]

“E O Wa”

[@hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-Mikel.Montalat]

What

[@zawash]

E Yo Wha

[@matiaspereyra9392]

Aahhh, so this is what it feels being on the other side of the equation of "not made here and assembled in yet another place"

[@supersmilyface1]

If the pears are picked when ripe (or extremely close to being ripe) then sent to a packing plant close by, a large ripening facility is unnecessary. If a packing facility was built pretty close to a pear farm (or any fruit farm really) the only steps necessary would be picking, short-distance shipping, packing, and long-distance shipping. No need to send it across seas until the final product is made.

[@yamazakiJumpei]

If by chance you wait that much, then wild life and insects will devour half the plantation, a single pick from any bird render the fruit useless to market. And no, you wont get the aproval to use the rest of the fruit, "sanitation" office (wichever name has in your country) wont let you .

[@kris220b]

shipping containers arent really naturally cold, because its a box of temperature conducting metal, they can real easily become saunas, especially in warm climates or direct sunlight

[@elcidgaming]

I worked for Maersk support, incidentally, - I used to belong in the south American spanish speaking division. and we had a special option for temp controled containers. You CANNOT put food in NORMAL containers! It can get scorching hot inside and most food will spoil I remember a big incident happening where a huge coffee shipment was spoiled cause of some of the cooling containers malfunction. This was email.blasted to us. I left Maersk at the time there was a cyberattack , Random ware on it..leading to my back pay being postponed for a month! Ahh good ol days

[@jonathantan2469]

The environmental analysis in the video omitted a big point; transport from farm-to-port (Argentina), port-to-factory (Thailand), factory-to-port (Thailand), and then port-to-supermarket (America). Argentinian pears are mostly grown in the Neguen/Rio Negro area, deep inland & over 1000km (600+ miles) to the port of Buenos Aires. To get there, it'll have to go by road. It can't be less carbon intensive than buying Californian pears if you live in LA or San Diego. In terms of economics & profits, it makes sense from that context if you are a megacorp with your own large production facilities around the world with economics of scale & cost advantages in supply partnerships. This is also why its cheaper to for example... sell tomatoes from Italy in West Africa than to buy from local farmers there.

[@roadent217]

"To get there, it'll have to go by road." Not by rail?

[@Elric_Stormbringer]

@@roadent217 Argentina is a road based country, we have rails of course, but no so much

[@ivonahora]

@@roadent217 rail stopped being an option in the 90s

[@madhes23]

Your channel is seriously underrated! You give me a lot of CGP Grey vibes. Wish your channel sees more growth in upcoming days.

[@padung6018]

Maybe I'm from a poor country, but we treat fruits like it's a seasonal treat, like someone waiting for a new tv series to drop. Fruits that are on season are cheaper. I wish I could eat rambutans or mangoes all day long but I think we appreciate the fruit more.

[@alfredcognoet]

Very nice video, as a sidenote: rujak is pronounced with a "j" and not a "y" :)

[@joaquinmanurung6668]

True

[@re57k]

yes, i was about to comment this

[@asynchrony]

Thank you lol.

[@katmeneer1439]

isnt that the same pronounciation?

[@FanOfNoob]

@@katmeneer1439 "j" as in "janky" and "y" as in "yank"

[@gui18bif]

I've always seen this meme and my thought process was: it may be a stupid idea but... the solution is not to pack the pears elsewhere, but to stop consuming packed pears... i mean why? Just pick a pear up and eat it

[@winzyl9546]

Thats not a stupid idea at all. Thats how humans have been doing it since humans existed. Just go to your local open market.

[@Farimira]

You may have to learn to preserve pears yourself if you want locally grown all year round

[@mafiousbj]

I'm from the region those pears are harvested...people buy it back as baby food here....most pears in aluminium cans for "adults" are locally packed, it's just the processed one that is brought from overseas

[@Slugbunny]

All good, except for shelf life. Longer shelf life means less waste.

[@ksvba9670]

@@mafiousbj what the guy in the video said about refrigeration is also completely false, we don't need to spend a lot to keep pears in good condition until they are packed since climate over that area is already partially good enough. simple facilities should do the trick

[@costantinochianale4904]

What about work regulation though? As I understand it, a big reason a lot of the packaging is done in South and Southeast Asia is because of the much weaker labour laws, doesn’t this off shore manufacturing encourage the maintaining of rubbish working conditions in many third world countries?

[@Thekapo8]

Spot on!

[@rainvelt6311]

Super late reply, but yeah that is true. 3rd world countries offer cheaper labor that is more enticing to "more developed" nations , at the cost of substandard and inhumane work conditions for their people. My college professor called this the "race to the bottom".

[@SirHellNaja]

Can confirm that labor laws is shit here, at least in Thailand The average price for a meal is now 1.4 dollar, but the minimum DAILY wage is 9 - 10 bucks. Some employers tend to hire even cheaper labors from neighboring countries by paying them below minimum wage, but these guys get caught quite fast if they don't have enough connection with local politicians or police.

[@isomarulor]

Are you serious? Most food packaging plants are fully automated.😒

[@isomarulor]

Especially the ones that meet export regulations.

[@timopint1125]

6:02 the harvest is 2 weeks earlier because of shipping not because they would do it naturally ;) with production next to it they would pick just when its done. so nothing there is coincidentally

[@sebastiangoddard4518]

I haven’t had a good laugh like this in a while. Cheers mate, I needed this 😂

[@StateoftheWorld]

Ah it's a good day when BritMonkey uploads

[@Vitoreo]

The Mario kart wii music over an economics lesson is something I didn't know I wanted.

[@itsgonnabeanaurfromme]

As a southeast asian, i gotta say fruits packed in plastic cups are a very Western thing. If i want a fruit, 95% of the time, i can get it fresh and unrefrigerated. Even if the pears are imported, i don't want them in juice in plastic cups. Edit: and people who can't afford refrigerators definitely won't be able to afford plastic cup fruit.

[@tannhauserr]

Yes, Rujak are made with fresh fruits not plastic cups.

[@lzh4950]

@@tannhauserr That's what I thought also; the gravy is made separately from peanuts instead. & that's only for Malay/Chinese-style _rokak_ ; Indian-style _rojak_ meanwhile is very different (but probably found only in Singapore & Malaysia, not India) - they use a sweet chilli sauce instead & deep fried shellfish, eggs, potatoes, fish/meat cakes & dough instead of fruits. I'd also thought that SE Asia would import fruits that can't grow in its tropical climates from nearer countries instead e.g. mainland China

[@aygtets]

Yeah this solidly felt like the only lead he could find for 'why Thailand. ' I think it's more likely that Dole owns a shitload of farming and fruit manufacturing in Thailand, so it's just cheaper for Dole.

[@propellerhead2000]

​@@aygtetsThailand also has irradiation facilities for sterilizing processed packaged fruits.

[@viktor8552]

I think it’s more of an american thing in that case. I’ve Never seen pre diced fruit in plastic containers in Sweden or Norway so I’m guessing it’s simillar in most of europe.

[@FLUFFSQUEAKER]

The pear faces at 3:15 completely cracked me up xD Great video, now i know the pear business :)

[@homohumanoperson4565]

Same

[@invizig9137]

The pears are packed in Thailand because they can underpay workers there, not because Thais eat rujak.

[@amacsizbirkisi]

Literally what was on my mind. Child labor galore in SEA

[@andresconrado]

"The tree doesn't make fruit all the time!" *Laughs in tropical zone*

[@gvmrpg]

Ok now, I can’t be the only one to notice the immaculate soundtrack. Steely Dan!? Awesome lol

[@handleboni]

This is interesting but it oversemplifies a lot. There are so many issues here... From the cargo shipping that doesn't consider volume and packaging to the extensive farming considered more environmentally friendly despite the huge impact that this has on biodiversity and the use of pesticides and fertilizers... If you can buy it in a supermarket it's obvious that it's economically advantageous, as always the problem is that the real cost for the environment is never calculated and if somebody tries, like in this video, makes so many assumptions that the reasoning it's kind of pointless. I liked better the last part where you explain that transport has a minor impact but you're forgetting 1 that we have to improve every single step if we want to stop climate change: there's not a single solution 2 that road transport is always necessary even with cargo ship to transport from the harbours to the cities' shops. So good work but with some flaws IMHO

[@Poedoco]

underrated comment

[@adamka-1]

🤓

[@linfrey1103]

Grow your own food.