Comments on: Fair Trade Bananas: A Tale of Two Farmers https://fairworldproject.org/fair-trade-bananas-a-tale-of-two-farmers/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:34:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: Maryanne https://fairworldproject.org/fair-trade-bananas-a-tale-of-two-farmers/#comment-3794 Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:34:13 +0000 https://fairworldproject.org/?p=15564#comment-3794 I came on this site because I just had a conversation with a person working at my local food co-op(in Vermont) and found I hadn’t been paying attention to the labels on my bananas. For several years now I have stopped buying fruit marketed by Dole or Chiquita after a friend spoke to me of a book named Banana which explained that these companies were responsible for atrocious violence in Latin America. It is my own tiny political act but I would not eat bananas if these companies were to profit. I was so happy to find fair trade bananas at my co-op. I am SO grateful. My son and I eat tons of them! The only chocolate I eat, pretty much, are Equal Exchange bars and I didn’t realize that the same organization got bananas to Middlebury Vermont! I love Equal Exchange and I love the AsoGuabo Co-op!

]]> By: Jessica Jones-Hughes https://fairworldproject.org/fair-trade-bananas-a-tale-of-two-farmers/#comment-3751 Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:09:35 +0000 https://fairworldproject.org/?p=15564#comment-3751 In reply to Edith K Mann.

Thanks so much Edith! Glad to hear you buy and enjoy Equal Exchange bananas. We are so lucky to have loyal fans like yourself.

If you are ever interested in learning more about the industry and FT in that context, there is a great web documentary (for free online): http://beyondtheseal.com/

Enjoy and thanks for supporting small scale farmers around the world.
Equal Exchange banana team

]]> By: Robert Giambruno https://fairworldproject.org/fair-trade-bananas-a-tale-of-two-farmers/#comment-3747 Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:16:55 +0000 https://fairworldproject.org/?p=15564#comment-3747 This is the result of what can be accomplished when people work together so that all can live on the “fruits” of their labor, not just one big consortium, profiting hugely while paying employees a pittance wage. This is not socialism, but cooperation. Unfortunately, big concerns do not always work well along side of small entrepreneurs, but seek to eliminate them as competitors, because profit not family is their objective.

]]> By: Edith K Mann https://fairworldproject.org/fair-trade-bananas-a-tale-of-two-farmers/#comment-3746 Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:14:26 +0000 https://fairworldproject.org/?p=15564#comment-3746 Thank you for your bananas. They are the only ones that we buy and eat.

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