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The United Fruit Company Part Four- Practicing Ethical Scurvy
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This week we are wrapping up the United Fruit story! Bananas are essentially running the CIA, creating wars, and dying of disease. There are pesticides and people being sterilized, war crimes and court settlements. Sources for this week:Documentary Banana Land- Blood, Bullets, & PoisonBananas How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World - Peter Chapmanhttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/world/americas/chiquita-banana-lawsuit-colombia.html?searchResultPosition=1 https://newrepublic.com/article/182589/chiquita-colombia-deaths-verdicthttps://pulitzercenter.org/stories/deadly-side-americas-banana-obsessionhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-62120058https://partnersinjustice.org/our-work/current-projects/crimes-against-humanity-and-chiquita-bananas/Follow the podcast @yeettherichpodFollow Emily @thefunnywalshFollow Danny @dmoss315Send us a text! Let us know what topics you want us to cover!
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This week we are wrapping up the United Fruit story! Bananas are essentially running the CIA, creating wars, and dying of disease. There are pesticides and people being sterilized, war crimes and court settlements. Sources for this week: Documentary Banana Land- Blood, Bullets, & Poison Bananas How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World - Peter Chapman https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/world/americas/chiquita-banana-lawsuit-colombia.html?searchResultPosition=1 http...
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