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So - looks like Chiquita isn't out of the forest yet on being held accountable for financing, aiding, and abetting the intimidation, kidnapping and murder in Columbia.
Chiquita paid the FARC to intimidate labor unions and sabotage rival growers as a means of “squashing competition and assuring defendants of an accommodating labor force,” the families said. Read more...
Well looks like this dude will still get to keep his shirt afterall, another tragedy in all of this is that the real news is on the pages of produce rags.
This is really playing out well for Wal-Mart. They have Transfair in their mits - using Paul Rice as a mouthpiece for Sam's Club...then on the other end they are building the most threatening WMD the banana world has ever known....the 39 cent/lb. banana. Read more...
Let me get this right. Can Dole really tout themselves as both a fair trade banana importer while simultaneously breaking the world record for the largest banana display?
Seriously, it's worth watching the video - and check out the price on the heap of over 1,650 cases of bananas. Remember, this transpired in August 2009 NOT 1959.
So the linkage of Chiquita to the recent coup in Honduras maybe old news to folks, perhaps not even surprising for anyone that's aware of the term "Banana Republic" outside of a shopping mall setting. Read more...
No kidding. Just looking at this site made me sick. Reminds me of an Onion headline a while back, something about meat being the number one condiment.
My brain isn't funtioning....those pictures are reminiscent of old B-horror/gore movies.
Sno-Pac of Caledonia,MN has started producing microwaveble items for Ahold, Inc., a multi-national company based in Amsterdam.
Microwaveable frozen veggies....I guess, whatever keeps this locally-owned company running strong. Read more...
So, the buy local-buy organic movement is offering up a boon in the number of small farmers in Indiana. But what does the future hold when the state has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country? Could be further testemant to my ongoing theory that as times get tougher, community grows stronger? Buckle up Industrialized food system, the agrarian revolution is nigh.
Alright, I've come to accept the fact that throughout my formative years my developing body was doused in high fructose corn syrup, refined sugars, pesticides, and a plethora of other food toxins I can't spell and my computer's thesaurus won't have any suggestions for - I have moved on. But while this may be due to the early morning, pre-coffee mindset - I simply can't comprehend the amount of mercury that King Korn has wrought on my body. Read more...
Thought I'd add this light-hearted "kitty stuck in the tree" story for the end of the week. It is a good reminder that your fighter masks (or even ski masks) are actually quite threatening, especially when weilding a hot cup of fair trade java.
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