{"id":10406,"date":"2017-02-07T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=10406"},"modified":"2017-02-06T11:50:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T16:50:05","slug":"chipotle-and-avocados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/chipotle-and-avocados\/","title":{"rendered":"Chipotle and Avocados"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Avocado-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Avocado\" width=\"350\"class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Avocado-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Avocado-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Avocado-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>AOL stated, &#8220;Chipotle could &#8220;bear the biggest brunt&#8221; of President Trump&#8217;s trade war with Mexico, according to Instinet analyst Mark Kalinowski.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/problems-with-trumps-20-mexican-border-tax-idea-2017-1?utm_source=referral&#038;utm_medium=aol\">proposed a 20% tariff on goods from Mexico<\/a> as a way to help pay for a wall along the US-Mexico border.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An avocado price increase in particular would be a huge challenge for Chipotle, which goes through more than 99 million pounds of avocados each year \u2014 and during some months, sources them exclusively from Mexico. By Kalinowski&#8217;s estimate, Chipotle may get as many as 70 million pounds of avocados from Mexico annually.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our belief is that the company generally obtains about 70-90% of its avocados from Mexico, all of its limes, the majority of its jalapenos, less than half of its tomatoes, and small amounts of other items (e.g., cilantro),&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/article\/finance\/2017\/01\/31\/chipotle-could-bear-the-biggest-brunt-of-trump-s-trade-war-wit\/21704171\/\">https:\/\/www.aol.com\/article\/finance\/2017\/01\/31\/chipotle-could-bear-the-biggest-brunt-of-trump-s-trade-war-wit\/21704171\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For vegan fast food information, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/fastfoodinfo.php\">http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/fastfoodinfo.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vote for your favorite quick service chain at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/vote\/index.php\">http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/vote\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AOL stated, &#8220;Chipotle could &#8220;bear the biggest brunt&#8221; of President Trump&#8217;s trade war with Mexico, according to Instinet analyst Mark Kalinowski. Trump has proposed a 20% tariff on goods from Mexico as a way to help pay for a wall along the US-Mexico border.&#8221; &#8220;An avocado price increase in particular would be a huge challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10409,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406\/revisions\/10409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}