One short of a bunch: ... the banana multinationals are in big trouble - and greenwashing is no substitute for an alternative that already exists.
New Internationalist › Nbr. 1999, July 1999
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One short of a bunch: ... the banana multinationals are in big trouble - and greenwashing is no substitute for an alternative that already exists.
IF you travel as I did from plantation workers in Guatemala to small farmers in Dominica and fair-trade organic growers in the Dominican Republic, it is blindingly obvious -- you're moving away from a landscape that is best left behind, towards a more desirable and sustainable furore. You are also rediscovering how millions of people grow most of the world's bananas without getting into the kind of mess that plagues the international business.
What is it that attracts world trade so unfailingly to the worst option? Why on earth should the self-styled `modernizers' of Chiquita, Dole and Del Monte be so anxious to retreat into the distant past? The fact that they appear to have no choice seems to me to be a symptom of termin...See the full content of this document
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