A rose is beautiful but a greenhouse with thousands upon thousands of roses, a place producing millions a year, is not Decades ago, the flower industry in Colombia was promoted as the replacement for another agricultural export crop, coca leaves and the cocaine made from them. The substitution was a failure - coca cultivation continues in remoter places - but a vast flower industry with its own problems has grown up in Colombia, which raises 80% of the roses sold in the US, along with many other...
'Workers get the thorns': the moral ugliness of rose factories | Rebecca Solnit
The Guardian - 8 May 2022 12:20
A rose is beautiful but a greenhouse with thousands upon thousands of roses, a place producing millions a year, is not Decades ago, the flower industry in Colombia was promoted as the replacement for another agricultural export crop, coca leaves and the cocaine made from them. The substitution was a failure - coca cultivation continues in remoter places - but a vast flower industry with its own problems has grown up in Colombia, which raises 80% of the roses sold in the US, along with many other...
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