date:Dec 12, 2018
Several UK restaurants are being urged to remove trendy avocados from their menus. The reason? Some of the profits from the so-called superfood are going directly to Mexico's drug cartels, stated by express.co.uk.
Following a series of brutal murders, kidnappings and extortion rackets, they have seized control of some of the farms and orchards where the popular fruit is grown. Now terrified farmers and locals in the Mexican state of Michoacan, where more than half the country's export crop is