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Gastropod · Jan 27, 2026
Ripe for Global Domination: The Story of the Avocado
“Conducted major marketing campaigns in 1960s-1980s to promote avocados as healthy, invented Mr. Ripe mascot, and funded nutrition studies”
NAFTA and agricultural trade policy impact on commodity marketsHass avocado variety dominance and breeding programsPost-harvest ripening technology and ethylene treatment
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