How 1.1 Billion Flowers Are Imported And Inspected In The US For Valentine's Day | Big Business
Fresh roses have as little as 48 hours to get cut in Colombia, flown to Miami, and inspected by customs for harmful bugs before the flowers wilt. In the weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day, the number of flowers imported through Miami triples.
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How 1.1 Billion Flowers Are Imported And Inspected In The US For Valentine's Day | Big Business
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Most get wasted
This would be a great opportunity for drug smugglers
Are they organic?
Columbian and equador flowers are very nice..conpared to kenya and ethopia..
Delicately hand-picked, aggressively hand-slapped flowers. 🌷
I'm a former florist, working at the green house during valentines and mother's Day was intense. We did a week of over time and the last two days before Valentine's and mother's Day we would rock 16 hr days. Even going to auction was cut throat, people would get super heated and hundreds of thousands of dollars would be spent per hour.
When that flower arrive in my home from some one . I'll think oh custom Haas been kicking them all😢😢
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I thought they r smuggling drugs in it
I grow Eucalyptus and it grows Ike a weed, so why import it?
Now you know how we got fire ants and other pests that are imported and have become a threat to our ecosystem
But those incompetent agents can't inspect moss from Dominican Republic like they should.
USA can't even grow their own flowers?? Wow....
I worked for a small floral company and once i found a lizard in the box of roses lol
buy local flowers
not eco
Burning Kerosene to import flowers for valentine day, what's a mess !!!! seriously ???? today people burn petrol for no reason !!!!! people don't care about nature :(
Yeah! Slap them like a new born baby!
Flowers became a damage
Do not get brainwashed by the media. Give a tree or flowers to plant them at their home , and that will be a good gift which will help environment birds and human beings.
Pretty awesome they check those flowers so close, ever ask the border agent's how so much fentnyol comes from China?
Before the cargo delivery they were handled with caution and a lot of care. Then on customs inspection, whatever.🤣 can they do their job with a little bit caution? Now i know why all our orders are broken.😅
Where can i buy poison oak/ivy? You give a girl a rose and she will forget you after a few days. You give her poison oak/ivy and she will remember you for life....
Business Insider reporter person is so NAIVE...that's a COCAINE smuggling operation. 🍚🍚🍚🍚🍚🍚🍚🍚🍚🍚
I LOVE Colombian girls. 💪🏻😍🥰😍🥰😍🥰😍👍🏻
I was thinking they are slapping flowers because of drugs inside flowers.
Sure “they have to overnight ship FLOWERS from COLUMBIA. 1.1 billion to miami...” nah couldn’t be a total cocaine front operation No edit; I’m literally just being sarcastic and joking if you get too pissed off stop. Drop. And roll.
People are so obsessed with this Valentine BS. Where's my Valentine when i need one?
The best smelling flights ever! ⚘🌹🥀🌺💐🌷🌻🙏😷🤘😎
All that fuel and pollution being burnt just for flowers to make some people FEEL appreciated or loved. Imean I guess
Image doing this all day everyday. Must be pretty boring
I found 2 snails in supermarket salad bag and another time a spider inside a spinach bag.. a friend found a snail inside a sandwich bought from a well known coffee shop.. Now I am a fully Non-veg! Imagine the amount of plastic that are used for wrapping these flowers.. that are non-recyclable.. so much for love...ehy! 'That is how it is everywhere, they kill them with what they love'
My favorite colombian plant does not have petals.
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"they shake it gently," man: *starts spanking the flowers*
Such a waste of resources and lot of greenhouse emissions going into the atmosphere getting all those flowers from South America. The US should instead use locally extracted flowers or roses.
We should celebrating Feb 15.
Lmao 1 billion flowers?? No way... There are more singles than people in a relationship.
Wow they are destroying the flowers more than inspecting
This is crazy 🤪
Flowers with drugs 😂😂
They forgot to mention how low income workers in columbia often are impacted by the pesticide on the flowers and it's been shown to cause miscarriage and infertility. And the large amount of child labor violations occuring in these greenhouses. (reference: www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-secrets-behind-your-flowers-53128/)
i didnt buy a single 1 bc i dont got one
you can;t inspect 1.5 b flowers it will take 20 people 20 years to do that
dammnn.. imagine if the pilot is allergic to pollens. ohh that would be bad.
and I am sure we can grow them in the usa...
Think of that. Flowers grow everywhere yet we have to fly millions of them wasting limited resources so that your loved one can throw them out next week. We humans are so wasteful 😰
Honestly yes, I agree. Unfortunately many poor Colombians depend on this industry since it doesn’t requiere a college degree. 😞
Helped me help my family we are poor and I want to change our life, fund my transport project in my country please😢😥 or give me alms😞
👍👍👍👍
is it worth the risk?
Omg. That's how they wontoned the flowers. Thank you you tube posters.
You forgot to tell how toxic the flowers are to humans due to the pesticides, let alone the vast amounts of co2. Costs go way beyond just the agricultural sector. Just an old flower farmer talking... Just stick your head in the sand.
Ok but how does my mexican homie in the corner of my street be havin the freshest flowers year round?
Too much inspection where a country is scared of disease lol Corona already killed most of them😂
yo wtf, I just looked it up - *80% of ALL flowers sold in the US are imported.
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Damn n half these girls don't even deserve flowers
It’s a huge industry which means millions of jobs for all these people to support themselves and their families. It’s incredibly impressive.
Better use those amazing conditions to grow crops and feed people, no?
ah yes, I love colombian flower.
Can't help but ask, is it worth it? Having to go through all those complicated processes, to have so many people spend their hours and efforts, only for humans to present overpriced dying plant genitals to each other that would just rot in the landfill in the next few days?
Billions of flowers... checking by 🙌? Is that even possible?
This is how the environmental footprint of roses looks like.
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I always let my partners know that I don’t want flowers because flowers don’t last ....I wouldn’t mind one rose but I’d feel bad when I have to throw it away once the flowers die
Is it just me or that customs looking kinda sexy 😳
Stanley 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
I didnt get any of that. Not even 1 :(
All of these inspections and I still get crappy flowers
I don’t understand about flowers...I even gave my mom feminine wash last feb 14 Think well 😂😂😂
We need to distribute the wealth like this with other countries and get off of China
I’d rather have the coke
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I don't get why people like these smelly weird plants
Working in a small floral store was insanity when it came to VDay, flowers came. overseas and there are at least one package that came already dead due to freezing the flowers. Through custom, we can tell some flower weren't handled as gently as show on this video :(
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣
I feel sad when he mention that at the time we cut the flower they started the process of death :( also what happen to the floral waste?
Suppose! After all this effort, u got rejected 😁
Those roses come from colombia and they need to move fast or else they wilt... seems like a perfect place for cocaine smuggling lol.
The guy at 4:15 is originally Kenyan. We are everywhere
The most useless purchase anyone can buy
better thn trading gold?
A week later most of those will be in the trash! Like my last marriage! 🤣
hate that they're imported boxed like that, so wasteful
Flowers are nice but I want a weed bouquet. Do they grow those here?
So much plastic and waste..
It is only business
Epic
Mass destruction of the ecosystem
2:07 they're not socially distancedalso 2:23 and where's their masks? Also 2:30, 2:33, 2:37, 2:54
Just asking...does US perishable products goes to the same border checks like what they did to those products when they enter US? I doubt not because we are subjected to the US low standard chicken that's dumped in our countries and I think nothing gets sent back or parallel checked
Jesus christ, there must be another way to get flowers in America
Why do i feel bad for the flowers
I buy my own flowers from Aldi for Valentines day.
Bro they banging damages roses I’m thinking after they harass the roses they have done
All the more reason to skip such a vile shitty "Holiday"
yellow roses signifies "break apart", so don't give your valentine yellow roses...
I hope they don’t send them Corona 🌺🌸🌼 flowers over here......