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: 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. I should point out that Chiquita and Dole control 80% of the world’s bananas, which I find completely alarming. In 2009, a Swedish documentary team produced a film, Bananas!*, investigating Dole’s use of dangerous pesticides on their banana plantations which Nicaraguan workers claimed damaged their health, after workers won a lawsuit against Dole in 2007. In 2013, OxFam New Zealand called on Dole to remove stickers from their bananas that read “Ethical Choice” until their treatment of workers in the Philippines improved. Finally, I should point out that, despite the fact that bananas don’t typically appear on the Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen list, conventional banana production involves huge amounts of pesticides.