[nvme0n1p1]

I'm not sure what Peru has to do with anything. TFA is about the USA, and usda.gov is an American site.

But I bet if the average ancient Peruvian had to choose between their avocados dying or their next-door neighbors dying, they'd choose to save their neighbors. Unfortunately in modern times, I'm not so sure anymore.

[applicative]

Peru is the home of desert irrigated avocado. It is a leading factor in the total economy, following techniques already known to their ancestors 5000 years ago, but with their cotton not with Mexican avocado.

There were no avocados until quite recently, and thus no choice. There was only uninhabitable desert - though it had once been inhabited and indeed constituted the first known state in the Americas.

Your idea is 'i heard about desert avocadoes on tiktok and its insane and whoever does it needs machine-gunned.'.

[nvme0n1p1]

Chill. I've never used tiktok. Don't assume everyone you talk to saw the same meme you did.

Did you know more than one country grows avocados?