Title: Vegan Banana Bread - Hell Yeah It's Vegan!
Headings: Vegan Banana Bread
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Vegan Banana Bread
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Content: As you may already know, Chiquita Brands International is the leading distributor of bananas in the United States. But prior to the 1980s, the corporation was known as the United Fruit Company. That might ring a bell if you’re a fan of Pablo Neruda or Gabriel García Márquez, both of whom lambasted the American corporation for trampling on the backs of Colombians to get their hands on some cheap bananas nearly a century ago. Flash forward to 1998, when the Cincinnati Enquirer brought to light Chiquita’s engagement in a variety of human rights abuses, from exposing its workers to pesticides, bulldozing a Honduran village, “ [suppressing] unions, unwittingly [allowing] the use of Chiquita transport ships to move cocaine internationally, and [paying] a fortune to U.S. politicians to influence trade policy .” And between 1997 and 2004, Chiquita made regular payments to the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia, paramilitaries designated as a terrorist group by the U.S., which they continued to make after having been explicitly told of its illegality by the Justice Department. In 2014, a lawsuit brought against Chiquita by family members of those murdered by Colombian paramilitaries was rejected; Chiquita argued that historically, the Supreme Court has “ [limited] the ability of people outside the United States to sue corporations for human rights abuses in U.S. courts .” To say that I don’t find that argument “comforting” would be sugar-coating it.* Of course, Chiquita’s not the only company in the banana game; Dole Food Company is a big player, too.