{"id":41452,"date":"2018-05-17T15:50:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T13:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/17\/chilean-villagers-claim-british-appetite-for-avocados-is-draining-region-dry\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T15:50:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T13:50:20","slug":"chilean-villagers-claim-british-appetite-for-avocados-is-draining-region-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=41452","title":{"rendered":"Chilean villagers claim British appetite for avocados is draining region dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK demand for fruit increased by 27% last year alone, prompting accusations that growers are illegally diverting rivers and leaving locals without waterBritish supermarkets are selling thousands of tonnes of avocados produced in a Chilean region where villagers claim vast amounts of water are being diverted, resulting in a drought.Major UK supermarkets including Tesco, Morrisons, Waitrose, Aldi and Lidl source avocados from Chile\u2019s largest avocado-producing province, Petorca, where water rights have been violated. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/may\/17\/chilean-villagers-claim-british-appetite-for-avocados-is-draining-region-dry\" target=\"_blank\">Chilean villagers claim British appetite for avocados is draining region dry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK demand for fruit increased by 27% last year alone, prompting accusations that growers are illegally diverting rivers and leaving locals without waterBritish supermarkets are selling thousands of tonnes of avocados produced in a Chilean region where villagers claim vast amounts of water are being diverted, resulting in a drought.Major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}