No More Chiquita Products for Me

mrsnudge · #1 (**permalink**) 03-14-2007, 05:57 PM

Chiquita Charged With Dealing With Terrorist Group

http://cbs2.com/topstories/topstorie...073164243.html

got2save2 · #2 (**permalink**) 03-14-2007, 06:17 PM

I wouldn't doubt it, As a Nation We all would be SURPRISE about what company does business with Terrorist groups, since we cannot just look into the records for ourselves.

BarbM · #3 (**permalink**) 03-14-2007, 10:14 PM

That's interesting to know. I hadn't heard about it in our news here.

Thank's for the heads up.

I won't be buying Chiquita any more either, Not just bananas but all their products. And I'll pass the word areund here too.

mackeeg · #4 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 07:29 AM

I heard about this a few years back, I wonder how true it is?

refundsrus · #5 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 08:58 AM

I don't know of any other brand of bananas.. I'm devastated over here!!

1brattygirl · #6 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by refundsrus

I don't know of any other brand of bananas.. I'm devastated over here!!

Doesn't DOLE have bananas? I believe they do

refundsrus · #7 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by 1brattygirl

Doesn't DOLE have bananas? I believe they do

Oh yeah I forgot about Dole. I'll have to look for them! Thanks for bringing that to my attention!

vorphalack · #8 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 09:34 AM

I read that they paid the terrorists in order to protect their workers.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...MPLATE=DEFAULT

http://www.usleap.org/Banana/bananatempnew.htm

http://www.fairtrade.net/bananas.html

1brattygirl · #9 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by refundsrus

Oh yeah I forgot about Dole. I'll have to look for them! Thanks for bringing that to my attention!

No problem

Cuthie · #10 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 07:59 PM

Costco's babnananas are not Chiquita, are they?

(typo but it was too cute to change it, LOL)

Mom2RandD · #11 (**permalink**) 03-15-2007, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by vorphalack

I read that they paid the terrorists in order to protect their workers.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...MPLATE=DEFAULT

http://www.usleap.org/Banana/bananatempnew.htm

http://www.fairtrade.net/bananas.html

Definitely interesting reading.

I love how the media uses inflammatory headlines like the one used with the Chiquita story.

While what they did was not a commendable act, they were paying to protect their workers.

For anyone who said they'll start buying Dole bananas, consider that Chiquita is a company who has allowed their workers to unionize and pays them higher wages and protects their rights as workers. Here is an exerpt from the pages vorphalack linked to:

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The race to the bottom is led especially by companies operating in Ecuador, the largest banana exporter in the world, as well as on the south coast of Guatemala. Working conditions, wages, and benefits on Ecuadorian banana plantations are some of the worst in Latin America. Unlike most of its competitors in the region, Ecuador's banana industry is almost completely non-union, as is the south coast of Guatemala. (Banana Industry Crisis)

Leaders in the "Race to the Bottom": Noboa and Dole
The primary leaders of the "race to the bottom" in the banana industry are banana companies that source heavily from Ecuador, including Dole and Noboa (an Ecuadorian-based company that owns the Bonita brand), a country where banana unions have been successfully resisted. For example, armed thugs violently attacked Bonita workers on strike for a contract at plantations in Ecuador in May 2002. Dole and the Ecuadorian-based banana growers have also lobbied for changes in the European banana import system which would reward low cost producers and accelerate the "race to the bottom".

Banana companies have cited the industry crisis and competition from Ecuador as a reason to cut jobs, wages and benefits, and close plantations in other countries. In Del Monte's case, violence was used to quell union protestors of roll-backs in Guatemala in 1999.

It's not as cut and dry as "Oh, Chiquita pays terrorists so they're the bad guys and because we haven't read anything negative about Dole they must be the good guys."

1brattygirl · #12 (**permalink**) 03-16-2007, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Mom2RandD

Definitely interesting reading.

I love how the media uses inflammatory headlines like the one used with the Chiquita story.

While what they did was not a commendable act, they were paying to protect their workers.

For anyone who said they'll start buying Dole bananas, consider that Chiquita is a company who has allowed their workers to unionize and pays them higher wages and protects their rights as workers. Here is an exerpt from the pages vorphalack linked to:

It's not as cut and dry as "Oh, Chiquita pays terrorists so they're the bad guys and because we haven't read anything negative about Dole they must be the good guys."

Noone ever said that they (being Dole) are the good guys.....just simply pointed out that it is another BRAND.

Mom2RandD · #13 (**permalink**) 03-16-2007, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by 1brattygirl

Noone ever said that they (being Dole) are the good guys.....just simply pointed out that it is another BRAND.

I'm simply inferring that some people will make a brand change because they've heard negative press about Chiquita while hearing nothing about Dole when they're actually no better (and perhaps slightly worse) than Chiquita. I realize that it's another BRAND that many people may turn to in lieu of buying from Chiquita. I'm just suggesting that people do their research before jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

lytlemss · #14 (**permalink**) 03-16-2007, 09:59 AM

Ok, No Chiquita bananas. But I wonder if .......................... anyone is still buying gas at Exxon????

dollydeal · #15 (**permalink**) 03-16-2007, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by vorphalack

I read that they paid the terrorists in order to protect their workers.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...MPLATE=DEFAULT

http://www.usleap.org/Banana/bananatempnew.htm

http://www.fairtrade.net/bananas.html

That is sad.

To me they look like the victims. I mean the government has financially supported terrorism in many ways as well, and nobody is fining them.Chiquita was just protecting their workers.It was wrong,but I don't feel they should be fined since nobody fines the goverment.I just think it should have been stopped.

3togetready · #16 (**permalink**) 03-16-2007, 05:54 PM

dollydeal I think you are so right.

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