Whether it is beef, chocolate, yogurt or avocado, some sort of growing, nutritional, political or marketing tale can be told.
Some stories are more tangential than others. Witness the article in today’s New York Times about the dwindling number of coconut pluckers in Kerala, a southern state in India.
India’s huge coconut industry depends on the pluckers to climb
trees and harvest coconuts by hand. It is a dangerous—but
well-paying—job that traditionally was reserved for members of the
untouchable caste ......continue reading on The Delicious Truth Blog .
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