A global shortage of oranges that sent prices soaring has prompted some orange juice manufacturers to consider turning to alternative fruits to make the breakfast staple.
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“There are three main factors driving the soaring price of orange juice, and it’s drought, disease and demand,” Ted Jenkin, oXYGen Financial CEO and co-founder, told FOX Business.
The spike stems from declining output in Florida, which is the primary U.S. producer, and disease and extreme weather events in Brazil, which accounts for about 70% of global production.
Orange trees in Brazil have been suffering from a disease known as citrus greening. Once infected, citrus trees produce fruits that are partially green, small, misshapen and bitter. There is no cure, and trees typically die within a few years of infection.
The disease, along with severe heat waves and drought that occurred during the pivotal phases of flowering and early fruit formation, have put Brazil on track to register one of its worst orange harvests in more than three decades, according to a new report published by Fundecitrus and CitrusBR.
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In the past, orange juice makers have avoided long-term shortages by freezing juice stock, which can be preserved and used for up to two years, according to the Financial Times. However, even that frozen stock is dissipating because of a three-year shortage build-up.
Cools said that manufacturers may have to consider using a different fruit, like mandarins, because their trees are more resistant to the greening disease. However, that could be a lengthy process.
Best thing about the color and fruit having the same name is as long as the juice color is the same it will always be Orange Juice.
Warning: this is orange juice, not orange juice
The color is named after the fruit
Or they could be transparent with their customers and call it a similar sounding new name, distinct enough in its own right but rhyming with the original name, but the capitalist pigs won’t ever do that
They didn’t give a reason for declining output in Florida. I assume global warming related, but I wonder if there’s another reason
They didn’t give a reason for declining output in Florida.
It does say:
On top of that, Florida has been hit by a series of hurricanes as well as the greening disease, which is spread by a tiny insect called the Asian citrus psyllid.
There’s also the fact that Florida just chased away all the migrant workers and undocumented workers. Bit of a labor shortage down there at the moment.
We did chase away a lot of the migrant workers and climate change is very real. However it’s the citrus greening that is to blame. We don’t even need the citrus pickers because there is nothing to pick.
Here is a picture of an orange on one of my trees. Itt should be much bigger starting to turn yellow and unblemished. It will get a little bigger stay green and then fall off.
They also cut down a bunch of orchards to build more retirement neighborhoods.
They pissed off migrant workers too, didn’t they?
Chasing out all of the migrant labor with threats of legal action and/or violence.
They just didn’t want to say that for some reason.
Wee bit of a labor shortage perhaps?
There is no labor shortage with current production efficiency. There is labor underpay.
Florida has been making it increasingly difficult and hazardous for undocumented immigrants to live and work in Florida. Hence labor shortage.
Not labor shortage, but cheap/almost-slave labor shortage.
I hope unions in Florida will use this situation to greatly improve working conditions and increase workers’ wages.
Also quick search shows there are layoffs in Florida anyway, so again, not labor shortage, but almost-slave labor shortage.
Argue semantics all you want. It is a labor shortage caused by Republican policies which keep out the cheap labor while doing nothing to address the gap that creates.
It isn’t just ’ freezing juice stock’, really that hasn’t been the way things have been done in a long time.
JuicePaks from givaudan have been normalized since maybe the '80’s.
Consumers expect orange juice to taste like ‘orange juice’, year round, whether it was a good or bad year. There isn’t anything intrinsically bad about that anymore than expecting bananas to taste like Cavendish.
The world is changing though, and tastes will have to adapt.
Oh how the tables have turned…
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220627-how-orange-juice-took-over-the-breakfast-table
“The innovation [of concentrated juice] arrived as Florida growers were dealing with cyclical, massive overproduction. The promise of a new way to make juice that could be kept frozen, then reconstituted in people’s homes, prompted them into even more production, however. They ramped up tree planting in the 1940s. The oranges went to frozen concentrate and eventually, to chilled juice, an industry term for the refrigerated product. If juice could be kept in stasis, held in waiting for a consumer’s glass, then the only problem was ramping up demand as much as possible.”
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“It had taken a few decades, but with the help of advertising and processing technology, the dumping ground for extra oranges was solidly ensconced as its own product, far outpacing oranges themselves in sales.”
It’s raspberry jam all over again!
Only in America is overabundance a problem to solve
“Ain’t no such thing as climate change!!!”
[Climate charge ends orange juice]
“Librulz want to CANCEL my orange juice!!!”
“My God. The Dukes are going to corner the entire frozen orange juice market!”
I have mine falling on the floor because I can’t eat/drink them all.
Isn’t that just fruit juice, then?
No it’s still juice that is orange, just not juice from an orange.
Reminds me of that one essay where they talked about burning oranges to maintain the price
The sources are a CEO and FOX Business? Yeah that doesn’t mean anything to me, hoss.
There is no cure, and trees typically die within a few years of infection.
Molecular biologists could make tree that won’t get infected. Until ecoactivists like Greenpeace will come and uproot the trees.
Has the disease been researched well enough for us to know how to genetically engineer resistance to it? If not, what you’re saying is a moot point.
Considering article about it on wikipedia was created in 2005 and says it appeared in USSA in 1998, it should have been researched.
Also quick look at Control section suggets that it is well-researched already.
Humanity already researched so many diseases, that biggest problem to research new one is paywall
In that case, then yup. Fuck both the corporations patenting/paywalling these advancements and the anti-GMO crowd fear mongering about it.
When there will be catgirls?!Yes, GMO crops would allow to use less resources(land, water and stuff crops eat) to feed same amount of people.Fuck both the corporations patenting
It’s worse than most think. You can go and patent spider silk protein. Not that you invented it, but for no reason it’s patentable and such patents already exist. Literally patenting nature. Oh, also regular crops can be patented too for some reason, no gene engieneering required.
It took centuries to come up with the smallpox vaccine. None of the control methods have available genetically-engineered trees. They can only substantially decrease rate of infection, but that’s nowhere close to 90%.
It took centuries to come up with the smallpox vaccine.
Smallpox? Why thousands? You could say millions of years, you could say billions. Just don’t go over 14 billions, it would be complete nonsense.
Smallpox vaccine is first vaccine ever made. Second vaccine took another while to be developed. Then they started to be created much more often. In current age developing vaccine for new virus(example) takes…
- December 2019 - first recorded case
- May 2020 - announcement of start of development
- August 2020 - studies ended
- September 2020 - studies published
Obviously you can find vaccine that was developed faster.
But since we are talking about genetically engieneering trees, here’s example. There is fungus that threats to make Cavendish banana and first was found in 90-ies, and I found article from 2023 about Australia approving export of engieneered bananas.
Now back to CVPD.
Since how CVPD works is described inDid we both miss “Antisense oligonucleotides” subsection? Exact modifications are already known. Just insert them into tree.EDIT: typos
EDIT2: export of modified bananas, not fungus. Lol.
Just don’t go over 14 billions, it would be complete nonsense.
Actually, the more data we get from JWST, the more evidence we get that the universe is older than 14 billion years. Some estimates have it in the 25 - 30 billion year range.
There are greening tolerant (not resistant) varieties developed already, yes of course biologists have been and are urgently working on it. I have a “sugar bell” tree, that’s one of them.
