Oh, Banana Co
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Unless, of course, you're a member of the banana Republic that produced the banana. Then $2 is the largest fortune you've ever seen and your hands get chopped off if you get caught eating a banana when you were supposed to be picking it for the sheltered, ignorant shit head that wrote this tweet.
They are harvested green and inedible.
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It's a banana Michael, how much could it cost? $10?
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NOT Tom Hiddleston, @MusingsHistory
"I don't see how I benefit from imperialism" he says as he peels a Dole banana that he can buy literally any time of year for under $2
So what you're saying is, you hate cheap bananas?
The cost to humanity is anything but cheap.
The imperialists would disagree as they see a whole lot of value in it. Sure millions suffer, but hey, a few people get rich and that's really what god wants, isnt it?
I prefer "Itchy Gorilla" brand bananas. Sure they smell funny but you can get a bunch for under a dollar on the street.
The United Fruit Company has been defunct for almost a century by now.
I still recommend buying fair trade Bananas if you can afford it, but eating a banana helps poor people in third world countries more than eating an apple, which doesn't send a single cent to the third world.
And second, why does the OP consider eating bananas exploiting banana farmers, but eating apples is not exploiting apple farmers??
Edit: thanks for the downvotes you dumb fascists.
I actually grew up in a banana producing country. All the leftists shitting on our produce are enemies of the people. People in poor third world countries desperately need money and selling their produce is how they earn money.
Yes, buy fair trade, that actually gives a better price to those farmers. But even without fair trade, buying tropical products helps tropical farmers.
Which tells you how large of an impact they had if their legacy is still with us.
Are the apple farmers living and working in a third world country? Getting as little as possible?
Yeah pretty sure it's mostly racism that makes people assume all banana producing countries are run by rich white men, also the assumption that people in those countries don't want to engage in trade like everyone else does.
Reality is bananas are currently cheap because they grow well and transport easily, also because cargo is very cheap thanks to giant shipping containers. The same reason goods made in the rest of the world are available to people in banana farms - the fact no one has any reason to doubt you're from a banana producing country is testament to the benefit two way trade has made us all. Your phone is probably newer than mine, you can use it to look up all the same information and entertainment as me living in one of the most colonialist countries - things have changed so much for the better and pretending it hasn't is a major flaw in a lot of people's thinking at the moment.
And of course that doesn't change history but moving forward is far more important than whatever it is the people angry at bananas want us to worry about.
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