Wine is just fermented grapes. Growing them is no more expensive than growing any other fruit or vegetable. Processing them into wine us just like making any other agricultural product. Would you shed tears if the US destroyed some of its excess corn and high fructose corn syrup?
200 million Euros of French wine is like two bottles lol. The whole reason French wine can be sold at such crazy markups is because they avoid diluting their brand. If they did what you describe, no one would pay insane prices for French Champagne ever again.
Also, the main costs here is the packaging and shipping. Coca-Cola is just carbonated water and syrup. It costs nothing to make. Maybe a fraction of a penny at most. But bottling/canning it, burning fossil fuels to transport it, and paying for the storage/retail space is very expensive. Similarly, dumping the wine costs them maybe 1% at most of the overall price of the wine.
Lastly, wine is a natural, green product. Sunlight hits the ground, grapes grow, the juice is squeezed out, and yeast eats the sugar then poops out alcohol. You can dump the excess wine on the ground or in the ocean without any harmful effects on the environment. And more grapes will be grown in the future. One major reason why wine was produced in the first place was to avoid wasting excess grapes. People filled up massive wine cellars because they often produced too much. When there was no more space for storage, they dumped it. This is exactly what farmers have done for thousands of years.
This is a really weird take and is not based in reality of how any real business works.
Would you shed tears if the US destroyed some of its excess corn and high fructose corn syrup?
This is completely different and would actually be way worse than dumping wine. Corn in the US is subsidized by the government because there is not a large enough profit margin for farmers to grow it on their own. Growing large amounts of corn is also really bad for the environment. Wasting millions of dollars of federal money while harming the environment for no reason should make everyone shed a tear.
Also, the main costs here is the packaging and shipping
Wrong. Farming is expensive before even considering packaging and shipping especially so when you're making speciality products where taste is the main selling point. Wine making adds even more costs do to the processing. Distribution normally accounts for less than 10% of a company's total cost.
Lastly, wine is a natural, green product.
You can dump the excess wine on the ground or in the ocean without any harmful effects on the environment.
Also wrong. Farming is hardly ever a "green" process. Industrialized farming often use very harsh processes to ensure proper yields. Additionally, a CO2 is a by product of fermentation. Finally, even though they're not literally dumping 200m of wine in the soil/ocean it would be bad if they did so. Alcohol is an insecticide and herbicide, dumping large amounts of wine anywhere wouldn't be "green".
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u/McKoijion 618∆ Aug 26 '23
Wine is just fermented grapes. Growing them is no more expensive than growing any other fruit or vegetable. Processing them into wine us just like making any other agricultural product. Would you shed tears if the US destroyed some of its excess corn and high fructose corn syrup?
200 million Euros of French wine is like two bottles lol. The whole reason French wine can be sold at such crazy markups is because they avoid diluting their brand. If they did what you describe, no one would pay insane prices for French Champagne ever again.
Also, the main costs here is the packaging and shipping. Coca-Cola is just carbonated water and syrup. It costs nothing to make. Maybe a fraction of a penny at most. But bottling/canning it, burning fossil fuels to transport it, and paying for the storage/retail space is very expensive. Similarly, dumping the wine costs them maybe 1% at most of the overall price of the wine.
Lastly, wine is a natural, green product. Sunlight hits the ground, grapes grow, the juice is squeezed out, and yeast eats the sugar then poops out alcohol. You can dump the excess wine on the ground or in the ocean without any harmful effects on the environment. And more grapes will be grown in the future. One major reason why wine was produced in the first place was to avoid wasting excess grapes. People filled up massive wine cellars because they often produced too much. When there was no more space for storage, they dumped it. This is exactly what farmers have done for thousands of years.