Toxic Avocados

The truth is that most avocados are toxic avocados. Most of the avocado industry grows conventional avocados loaded with pesticides and herbicides. But it's not just conventional avocados that are toxic, most organic avocados are loaded with toxins because of how they are treated and processed after harvest. The avocado industry does a remarkable job of marketing avocados as a health food, but the industry hides a very dirty secret and yes it kept very secret. To be blunt, you're not supposed to know whats truly in and on your organic avocados. We hope to shatter this illusion and do things differently, exactly how they should be done in harmony with mother nature in order to deliver the healthiest, most nutritous avocados in the world. There is a better way, you don't have to continue overloading your body with toxic chemicals because you love avocados. You can feel and taste the difference eating fresh, healthy, organic, California grown avocados shipped directly from our family farm.

After harvest, most avocado farmers, conventional and organic, sell their entire crops to big ag processors for bottom dollar. The avocado processors, chemically treat aka gas all the avocados to artificially delay ripening for up to two months. So when you buy store-bought avocados, you are buying toxic avocados that are far from fresh. The only way to buy Fresh Avocados is to buy them directly from the farmer. Most avocados contain toxic chemicals that even the European Union flags as potentially dangerous under certain storage and transport conditions. From pesticide residues that build up in the flesh after the fruit is harvested and artifically ripened in toxic gas chambers. The logistics are a dark art, to keep avocados looking fresh, they are treated with toxic preservatives that lock in the color which may disrupt hormones.

A doctor in Barcelona, Spain put it bluntly: "We stopped recommending avocados to cancer patients because we can't guarantee their purity."

The absolute worst part is the fact that consumers are purposely kept in the dark about what's truly lurking within their organic avocados. You will never see it on the label or sticker on the avocados or in any of the marketing. The fact is that most organic avocados are chemically treated unless you buy them directly from an avocado farmer. You can learn more about how this dirtly little secret became the industry standard in the following blog post, Store-bought Organic Avocados Are Chemically Treated To Artificially Delay Ripening For TWO Months.

"Evil cannot create anything new, it can only spoil and destroy what what good forces have invented or created" ~ J.R.R Tolkien

This famous quote by J.R.R Tolkien succintly describes the problem. The entire food system is built on convenience, that is the grocery store model, but it is a very flawed system. Practically nothing in a grocery store is fresh, but rather it's "kept fresh". The problem of keeping avocados fresher longer means man has to find ways to go about manipulating a natural product in order for the product to be distributed to all the different middlemen and eventually winding up in grocery stores. Instead of buying food directly from farmers, our society has normailzed cutting the farmer out of the picture almost entirely leaving them with scraps while the food industry destroys the end product.

The farmer and the consumer share a very important relationship and when that relationship is severed, the health of society collapses. This is exactly why our world is sicker than ever because there are significantly less family farms than ever before. Convenience is killing us, both farmers and consumers, but we have the power to change our habits and directly support farmers who have made it their life's work and mission to grow healthy organic food on their small family farms and sell it directly. It's a lot easier for farmers to sell their entire crop to a single processor and for consumers to go to the grocery store whenever they want, but this convenience comes at a very steep price. In this case, the farmer's business model is based on quantity and yield since bottom dollar prices only work with a significant yield and the farmer isn't as concerned about quality since he doesn't have a direct relationship with the end consumer. Whereas a direct to consumer farmer is focused on quality because they have a direct relationship with their customers which is based on them selling a higher quality product for more money in order to sustain their farm, pay their employees a living wage, and be a beacon of light in a very dark industry.