> In your recent article for #TheScientist, you start off by saying that the bananas that most Americans know from the supermarket “may be on the brink of disaster.” Why?
> .. all of our #bananas are grown and imported by #Chiquita or #Dole, these two companies have had their heads in the sand about it. They believe that they can come up with some chemical way to fight the disease, which I don’t believe will happen.
https://www.foodrepublic.com/2011/07/26/the-banana-problem/
#Bananas #Monoculture #DanKoeppel

That terrible feeling when your heroes are technically henchmen.

#chiquita #theywerentnbandits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZK4ktQCmO0

In exchange for a commitment by the federal prosecutors that they would not pursue #criminal charges, #Chiquita Brands' executives admitted that its subsidiary in #Colombia (#Banadex S.A.) paid approximately $1.7 million to paramilitary groups between 1997 and 2004 (including after the #USA Govt designated them as #terrorist organizations in 2001) and handed over thousands of documents related to the case.~
#Corruption #USA #Colonialism #Colombia #CrimesAgainstHumanity
https://maps.southfront.org/the-multinationals-among-the-untouchables-of-the-colombian-conflict/

Many multinationals have benefited from the reticence of prosecutors & courts to confront The #Untouchables (whether in the #USA, #Switzerland, the #UK or elsewhere); other multinationals that have eluded every effort to investigate & prosecute them for possible collaboration in #crimes against #humanity include #Drummond, #Chiquita Brands & Occidental Petroleum (all of whom have their CORP HQ's in the US), #BP (… #exploitation of #petroleum in Casanare), #BHP #Billiton ~
https://maps.southfront.org/the-multinationals-among-the-untouchables-of-the-colombian-conflict/