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	<title>Dan Koeppel&#039;s Blog &#187; Banana Chiquita</title>
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		<title>Just for Kids: How Bananas Came to America</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 01:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a special post, excerpted and modified from my book, designed for kids, visiting from The Mini Page, a syndicated feature published in over 500 newspapers every week. Lorenzo Dow Baker: Banana Pioneer Bananas were available in the United States immediately following the Civil War. But they were a luxury item, like caviar, consumed more for status than taste. (Plantains, for cooking, had been a staple in the southern parts of the hemisphere since Spanish times.)  Most Americans had never seen, sampled, or even heard of the fruit. What few bananas North Americans ate were sold at a dime apiece—about two dollars today—and came peeled, sliced, and wrapped in foil. They were usually mushy and brown by the time they got to the table. The closest place to the U.S. bananas could be grown, at the time, was Jamaica. The trip from that Caribbean island to the ports of the American northeast could take as long as three weeks aboard the sail-driven schooners of the day. That wasn’t fast enough to keep bananas fresh. But if the winds were just right, a ship could sail faster. Then, a cargo hold full of bananas could fetch a fine price. In 1870, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chiquita connection to Honduras crisis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Democracy Now radio program interviewed Nicholas Kozloff, who argued that there&#8217;s a Chiquita connection in the current Honduran political crisis, which saw President Manuel Zelaya deposed in either a coup or a constitutional emergency, or both, depending on which side you&#8217;re on, in June. The banana industry once made Honduras its largest exporting nation; that changed with Hurricane Mitch, in 1986, which devastated the crop, but there&#8217;s still a huge plantation network there. Here&#8217;s what Kozloff had to say: &#8220;&#8230;there’s this revolving door of Washington insiders that are supporting companies like Chiquita banana. I just wrote an article about Chiquita, formerly known as the United Fruit Company. And, you know, throughout history, Chiquita banana has had enormous sway and power over Central American nations. And we know that prior to the coup d’état in Honduras, Chiquita was very unhappy about President Zelaya’s minimum wage decrees, because they said that this would cut into their profits and make it more expensive for them to export bananas and pineapple. And we know that they appealed to the Honduran Business Association, which was also opposed to Zelaya’s minimum wage provisions. And we also—and what I find really interesting is that Chiquita is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; updates Chiquita report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CBS&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; reran its May, 2008 segment, called &#8220;The Price of Bananas,&#8221; on Chiquita&#8217;s payments to a Colombian paramilitaries. New information included the extradition of a member of that group to the U.S., confirmation by additional sources, and the expansion of an investigation of similar alleged payments made by Dole. Watch the report. Read a transcript. Related posts: Last year&#8217;s entry is here. Chiquita&#8217;s lawyer is Eric Holder, now U.S. attorney general. Here&#8217;s my March, 2008 entry. 400 Colombian families are suing the banana giant. My November, 2007 entry is here.]]></description>
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		<title>Tweeting Banana Arrivals in San Diego</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 10:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bananas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Danforth&#8217;s flickr stream. Writer/comedian Danforth France saw this Dole freighter unloading in San Diego while he was attending last week&#8217;s Comic-Con, and he sent me the linked tweet. The ship is the Dole Honduras &#8211; one of two that constitute the banana giant&#8217;s Pacific fleet. The vessel makes over 20 annual north-south trips along a route that stretches from San Diego to Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala; Caldera, Costa Rica; Guayaquil, Ecuador; and Paita, Peru, according to  Dole Ocean Cargo. Danforth&#8217;s image was taken July 26, and the vessel&#8217;s current schedule indicates that it is handling shorter haul work right now. The Port of San Diego&#8217;s Marine Information System indicates that it has already made a full round trip since then, and is due back today. It will depart for Costa Rica on Tuesday, August 4, The most interesting thing about the vessel is its color. Tradition has it that banana boats be painted white. Chiquita&#8217;s ships, starting even before the early 1900s,were known as the &#8220;Great White Fleet.&#8221; Though the Honduras is a bit of a shabby beige, it fits the traditional scheme, which is more than just  custom. Bananas are highly perishable and grown far away. They have to be shipped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Guide to Those &quot;Baby&quot; Bananas &#8211; and What They Prove</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huggable, lovable &#8211; but not the kind of baby banana that I&#8217;m talking about. Though the vast majority of bananas we buy &#8211; statistically, all &#8211; are of the endangered Cavendish variety, there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;ve seen something else, these days and if you&#8217;re a banana-type (or have become one), you might have wondered: what are those little bananas? Both Chiquita and Dole offer versions of the half-sized fruit, with Chiquita selling them under the &#8220;Minis&#8221; brand, and Dole offering them as &#8220;Baby&#8221; bananas. In the &#8220;big&#8221; banana world, there&#8217;s absolutely no difference between what Chiquita, Dole (or any other commercial banana importer) sells: everything is Cavendish. Action surrounds small-time fruit. For the first time in over a century, the two biggest banana companies are slugging it out for a market niche with different varieties. The Chiquita &#8220;Mini&#8221; is a breed called Pisang Mas, originally from Malaysia, but now &#8211; like all bananas imported to the U.S. &#8211; grown in Latin America. Dole actually sells three different varieties under the Baby band name &#8211; Orito, Lady Finger, and Manzano. The fruit are tough to find, since they&#8217;re in various stages of test-marketing, as well as subject to seasonal variation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banana Price Watch: 7-Eleven, Los Angeles</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s my beloved local Sev. To zoom in, you&#8217;ve got to go there. So go. Interesting strategy at my favorite local convenience store, on the corner of Sunset Blvd. and Rosemont In the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles (just steps from Dodger Stadium.) Instead of the typical branded, presented-in-a-box fruit Chiquita is selling in many U.S. convenience stores, the fruit here is bought at local supermarkets and sold in an ordinary basket. At the current price &#8211; 69 cents per banana &#8211; the store manager told me customers purchased a respectable fifty or so a day. Still, he thought he could do better, and was about to add a twofer, with a pair of bananas going for a buck.&#160; The DIY approach nets the local shop a considerable profit over Chiquita&#39;s all-in-one strategy, which involves a national distribution network of refrigerated product, each fruit with a sticker on it, to of about 13,000 convenience stores. Chiquita&#39;s suggested retail price for its product is 75 to 99 cents. The benefit, it says, is that that the&#160;controlled supplyand special packaging allows the fruit to arrive at the stores perfectly ripe &#8211; eliminating the need for store managers to spend time waiting for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Your Own Chandelier Out of Chiquita Boxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<title>Chiquita&#8217;s Pricey Belgian Airport Fruit &#8211; The Banana&#8217;s Future as a Snack Food?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<title>Convenience Store Banana Report: Fail!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spending the week in the great north country of New Hampshire and saw this sign adorning the entrance to a convenience store. No bananas of any kind inside, though. &#8220;We sold &#8216;em for 79 cents each, and you could buy a whole pound for that at the IGA down the street,&#8221; the clerk told me. It had been months since a Chiquita delivery.The competition from the Dunkin&#8217; Donuts &#8211; same price at the same location &#8211; couldn&#8217;t have helped much. Mobile Blogging from Colebrook, New Hampshire, U.S.A. [Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]]]></description>
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		<title>Dole, Others Sued in U.S for Ecuador Pesticides</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This exclusive report copyright 2008 www.bananabook.org. Two of the world&#8217;s biggest banana companies, the American chemical companies who supply them, along with several other companies they do business with, are being sued by pilots, ground crew, and residents of the Ecuadorian plantation town of Puerto Viejo for health damage they allegedly suffered during years of spraying of Mancozeb, a fungicide used to combat Black Sigatoka, the most common and costly disease affecting commercial bananas. The suit was filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) on September 18, 2008. It names Dole, Monsanto, Dupont, Dow Chemical and Noboa &#8211; which markets bananas in the U.S. under the &#8220;Bonita&#8221; brand name &#8211; as primary defendants, and accuses them of using the chemical despite knowing that it would cause birth defects, cancer, and respiratory and fertility problems among banana workers and their families. Mancozeb is listed by the Pesticde Action Network as having &#8220;toxicity to humans, including carcinogenicity, reproductive and developmental toxicity, neurotoxicity, and acute toxicity.&#8221; Mancozeb is a fairly common garden fungicide, and the U.S. EPA regards it as safe, but only in small quantities and with proper protective gear and usage. The suit alleges all were [...]]]></description>
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