• RagnarokOnline@programming.devEnglish
        5·
        9 days ago

        To be honest… I don’t think I’ve seen a dried chickpea that wasn’t packaged as a “snack” and it was like $5 for a single serving :(

        • subignition@fedia.io
          51·
          9 days ago

          Dang that’s a shame. Grocery stores around here sell them by the pound next to the dry beans.

        • hamid 🏴@vegantheoryclub.orgEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          That isn’t a different thing. Their mechanism for doing so is war. Corporations are making them expensive by starting and continuing wars. All wars are capitalist exploitation and a profit generating scheme. In this case the war is being fought where the chickpeas are grown though so the amount coming to market has dropped.

          There are a few kind of chickpeas though, these are specifically the big round ones anglos call garbanzo beans and in hindi are called kabuli chana. Desi chickpea production hasn’t been impacted but those are smaller chickpeas. The other major source for kabuli chana is Canada.

      • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        They bargained with the University I used to work for to get us things like:

        • 37.5hr work weeks and still receiving full-time benefits and pay
        • Good vacation accrual rates
        • A guaranteed effort to move union employees into other open positions if theirs is cut
        • Legal help/advice/action when Directors, etc. overstepped our rights (which I personally had to make use of)
        • Paid by the hour. No salary/after-hours bullshit.