[dsparkman]

The apple is not months old, but more likely a year old. They are kept in cold storage for extended periods of time.

The truth is that it makes horrible sense to ship crops to the US from anywhere outside of the US.

US agriculture policy is broken fundamentally. It is corn, soy, wheat. It is what is used as the feed stock for industrial food production. Basically, all the pseudo-food that lines your grocery store shelves. In the US, your tax dollars are used to subsidize the production of this "food" so that it is artificially cheap.