[File photo] A worker harvests grapes at the Domaine Pinson vineyard in Chablis, France, September 21, 2021.[File photo] A worker harvests grapes at the Domaine Pinson vineyard in Chablis, France, September 21, 2021.. They say the blackouts are making it difficult for them to maintain the cold chain, a European market requirement.
Table grape farmer Gabriel Viljoen says, “In the cooling chain, we’ve got to maintain a constant temperature and once it reached a cooling chain, it’s going to be taken down to zero degrees celsius, which takes approximately 12 to 20 hours. After that, it’s put into a container which is shipped down to Cape Town. Cape Town at the ports plugged in on electricity, once a vessel is there, gets loaded onto the vessels. The vessels get discharged.
The controversial grape farms that earn mega millions of dollars and pays it's workers slave wages. less than 2 dollars Even if they get their way, the native peasants in those farms still earn a pittance . Its just modern slavery
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