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minus-squarenotsosure@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 hours agoGreat! So by your selfish need to get your tea cheap from abroad, you are perfectly willing to accept that local producers of tea have to close down their business, and people in European lose their jobs.
minus-squaremholiv@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 hours agoAs someone who drinks quite a bit of tea Europe really doesn’t have great tea. Like oolongs and pu’er really just don’t grow here. I mean if we keep up a perpetual heat wave and crank up humidity we might be able to do it, but as it stands we don’t have the climate (yet) It’s not selfishness. It’s just agriculture.
Great! So by your selfish need to get your tea cheap from abroad, you are perfectly willing to accept that local producers of tea have to close down their business, and people in European lose their jobs.
As someone who drinks quite a bit of tea Europe really doesn’t have great tea. Like oolongs and pu’er really just don’t grow here.
I mean if we keep up a perpetual heat wave and crank up humidity we might be able to do it, but as it stands we don’t have the climate (yet)
It’s not selfishness. It’s just agriculture.