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From KQED.

From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal in for Mina Kim.

Americans love avocados. Over the last 40 years, American avocado consumption has reached 2.7 billion pounds, a 600% increase from the 80s.

Many of those avocados come from Mexico, and the majority

of Mexican avocado exports come from a single place, Michoacan, a state that lies west of Mexico

city and stretches to the Pacific coast. But all those avocados mean dollars, and those dollars

have drawn the attention of the cartels that vie for power in Mexico.

Today we hear about the Mexican avocado industry and the farmers caught up in the violence.

That's all coming up next after this news.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal in Fermina Kim. When I was growing up, my dad, a native of Halisco, could not really cook.

But he could make one thing, perhaps his favorite food, and it was as simple as it was delicious.

He'd slice up a ripe avocado, drop the pieces into a warm corn tortilla, and sprinkle it with salt and lime.

It was so good and it turns out, even though avocados are native to Mexico, the U.S. is now the single largest consumer of the fruit.

Most of those avocados come from a single Mexican state, Michoacan, which is about the size of West Virginia.

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