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.
let me guess, climate change?
And capitalistic mass production with no respect for natural resources, aka intensive farming. Plants are grown in huge monocultures with little to no genetic diversity thus making them prone to what would naturally be limited issues like unfavourable weather or diseases
Here in Florida there is a disease called citrus greening. The fruit grows small and falls off before it’s ripe. It’s basically destroyed the citrus industry. It’s spread by flying insects so impossible to control and there is no cure.
So climate change doesn’t help but that’s not the main culprit.
Flying insects are not necessarily impossible to control. You can promote the populations of their predators.
The problem is, that usually requires promoting a mixture of amphibians, birds, reptiles, small mammals, and other insects. To do that, you need a habitat full of various plants, trees, and terrains, but vast swathes of land have been turned into dead monoculture, so the predators die out.
Can’t say that in Florida, so it must be something else
The currently sold-in-stores orange juice tastes almost nothing like actual orange juice already.
You have been drinking orange juice, not orange juice. It’s an easy mistake to make.
Right I have no idea how they make that stuff but I just always assumed it contains little actual orange.
There’s a dirty secret in your glass of orange juice. Even though it says “not from concentrate,” it probably sat in a large vat for up to year with all the oxygen removed from it. This allows it to be preserved and dispensed all year-round. Taking out all the O2 also gets rid of all the flavor. So the juice makers have to add the flavors back in using preformulated recipes full of chemicals called “flavor packs.” Mmm, delicious, fresh-squeezed ethyl-butyrate!
The brand “simply” tastes like fresh squeezed (it also is the proper color and not that Nickelodeon neon orange), but most other brands taste more like Sunny Delight than actual orange juice.
Simply is hella expensive tho.
Only OJ worth buying though.
Ecogreenaturalganic 100% GMO-free.
If my grade school art teacher was correct, they could take some red cranberry juice and add some yellow lemon juice to get the same result.
Ngl, that actually sounds pretty good
It’s not that far off of a cosmopolitan cocktail in concept
Just needs vodka
Cranberry and lemon?
Have you had either, just as they are? Neither are particularly sweet. Biting into a lemon is rarely as refreshing an experience as biting into a ripe sweet orange.
Guess if you added a metric fuckton of sugar it might be palatable, but if I want a want added sugar in my drinks, I’ll have a soda of some sort.
Sugar? You mean, “apple juice”?. Check your juices next time. They’ll never day added sugar. But somehow you always get apple juice.
Depends on the lemon. Get some lemons in the southern part of Spain for example. Those are more closely related to oranges than citrons, and are quite sweet. It’s basically like biting into lemonade.
“Ain’t no such thing as climate change!!!”
[Climate charge ends orange juice]
“Librulz want to CANCEL my orange juice!!!”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
