Did someone have their monopoly undercut by competition?

Everyone hates buying good fruit for cheaper, everyone knows that.

also in the tweet the dude was crying about chinese imperialism on japan and used the Yuan dynasty as an example lol

these same China Bad posters will laud Henry Wickham with no sense of contradiction, because it's really about western chauvinism and the racial hierarchy

It was the greatest act of biopiracy of the 19th century, and maybe in history. In 1876, Henry Wickham emerged from the Amazon jungle with 70,000 stolen rubber seeds. Under absolute secrecy, he tucked the precious cargo in the hold of a steamship and sailed for England.

https://en.natopedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wickham_(explorer)

Nothing makes capitalists seethe more than have their special little thing be available to everyone.

The premise behind the promise of capitalism is that competition reduces prices and improves quality for consumers.

The red dragon C, the horse in the Year of the Horse. The "tiny" label on the back twice the size of the front brand. That has a clearly Chinese town and mentions China at least twice.

99.9999% of Americans don't know what Muscat grapes are or where they came from. They see big juicy fruit and affordable price.

Hang on...why is the importer address blanked out? Don't want to rat out the capitalist importer exploiting Chinese produce? But this was an outrage post! Don't you want to put the crapitalist competitor on blast?

No!! Republic of Samsung you too?! It isn't just the commies?

https://www.melissas.com/products/shine-muscat-grapes

What also is this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shine_Muscat

NIFTS registered Shine Muscat as a plant variety domestically in Japan in 2006, but its international protection lapsed because the variety was not registered for global protection within the six-year UPOV deadline.

By 2012, the variety was effectively treated as unprotected outside Japan, allowing growers in countries such as China and South Korea to propagate it legally without paying royalties. 

Aw sweet we're doing caviar again

Genuinely fuck the Japanese, hate that country like no other.

First as silkworms; second as a Shine Muscat

Intellectual property is bullshit in general, but intellectual property of LIVING ORGANISMS is just an entirely other level of fucked up.

Do the Japanese pay a tax to Kazakhstan for producing apples, which were domesticated in the Kazakh regions? Or kiwis which were domesticated in China? Onions to Mesopotamia? Fuck them

Check the small print? It clearly says product of China. It's not like those products that say stupid stuff like "Designed in USA" then hide "Made in China" somewhere on the back.

More people eating fruit is bad, if some people arent getting rich off a berry.

Proprietary plants is some proper dystopian shit.

Communists stay winning

Owned lol

Europe already went through this sort of relationship with the US. Its gotta be from the Shine region of Japan or else its just large muscats.

The farmers should blame their Government for not providing alternative employment. If the oranges and grapes are strategically/culturally important, the Gov can again buy it a floor price and sell for cheap. Either way, farmers will lose out on some of the rents, but hey, everyone else benefits from cheaper fruit from abroad in this scenario.

Btw, the West has done this with their ag sector to the third world. Displacing exports of global south with their own which have greater productivity (lower price) and subsidized on top. Except, global south countries have little policy space to counter the impact on local output and employment thanks to IMF/self-imposed neoliberal rules.

Other than the pollution involved in transporting Chinese grapes outside of China idgaf. Common W.

I'm gonna be real, I actually don't like Shine Muscat grapes. The flavor is kind of disappointing and the only thing going for them is that you see them and go "wow they're real big!"

but it's my status symbol!

don't really care, but asian groceries used to be cheap and had luxury options that white stores didn't have

now they're overpriced and taste the same as what the honkies are eating. I think asians are white now