This week, Hyperlink reveals how the rot of capitalism threatens to unleash discord on the kinds of apples you eat. (Get it, apple puns?) Club apples with multi million dollar marketing budgets that require growers to enter strenuous license agreements are coming to a grocer near you!

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeycrisp

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/11/10/358530280/want-to-grow-these-apples-youll-have-to-join-the-club

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/05/03/525421226/washington-apple-growers-sink-their-teeth-into-the-new-cosmic-crisp

https://gazette.com/life/the-search-for-the-next-honeycrisp-apple/article_ed1d3446-0210-11e9-849e-bb4a76cba9cb.html

https://snapdragonapple.com

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2007/10/11/honeycrisp

https://www.croptracker.com/blog/ip-in-the-orchard-how-exclusive-varieties-are-changing-the-apple-game.html

https://www.econexus.info/sites/econexus/files/Agropoly_Econexus_BerneDeclaration.pdf

https://civileats.com/2019/01/11/the-sobering-details-behind-the-latest-seed-monopoly-chart/

https://www.cityprepping.com/2020/06/30/seed-monopoly/