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Driscoll's Inc.

Driscoll's Inc.

Driscoll's Inc. is a California-based, family-owned company that develops proprietary varieties of fresh berries and works with independent growers to produce and market strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries sold to retailers and consumers in the United States and international markets. The company is headquartered in Watsonville, California.www.driscolls.com

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Sep 8, 2026

Matt RegusciHOST
10:53
Okay, you know what we haven't talked about too, which is crazy as well, because there's so much stuff going on with all the bacterial side of stuff, all the pathogen side of stuff.
Matt RegusciHOST
11:04
We also haven't talked about who's been in the news with other things, like Driscoll in the news with the whole pesticides and PFAS stuff.
Matt RegusciHOST
11:14
So like poor berries, man, they're being beat up this summer.
Matt RegusciHOST
11:18
Blueberries, frozen blueberries.

10 MINS LATER

Matt RegusciHOST
21:11
Like, okay, so if you are Walmart, Costco, Cisco, blah, blah, blah, you grade your product at the distribution facility, you have a contract with these major marketing companies.
Matt RegusciHOST
21:22
So in the produce industry, they call them marketing companies.
Matt RegusciHOST
21:25
And so those marketing companies are like Taylor Farms, Dole, Driscoll, et cetera, et cetera.
Matt RegusciHOST
21:32
Name the produce and I can tell you the marketing company.
Ed OppermanHOST
16:08
Now, I invited you guys to come on the show to talk about this Driscoll boycott.
Ed OppermanHOST
16:12
What is the Driscoll Company, and why do we need to boycott them?
Al RojasGUEST
16:18
Well, if I may, Mr. Desiree.
Al RojasGUEST
16:21
The Disco Boycott basically is an upsurge of a repeated history.
Al RojasGUEST
19:03
Other than that hadn't been the great boycott, there would be no union today.
Ed OppermanHOST
19:07
That's right.
Ed OppermanHOST
19:09
And so in the spirit of that great boycott, you've established this boycott against this Driscoll company, right?
Al RojasGUEST
19:17
Well, we learned a lot, and we learned a lot of mistakes to this day.
speaker_2ADVERTISER
1:58
Buy it now.
PhilionHOST
2:00
Cisco gets their berries from companies like Driscoll.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
2:03
Driscoll's basically took the Nike sweatshop model and applied it to berry production.
PhilionHOST
2:06
And chicken from companies like Tyson.
speaker_5UNKNOWN
2:08
So what am I supposed to do, bro? Forage myself? Fucking go off the grid? There's no option.

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