[Newsbot]

Title: Oilsands snub sparks banana boycott
Category: Business
Posted By: Alta_redneck
Date: 2011-12-16 05:30:44
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

You have to wonder about the thought processes in a company that they would even consider that oil from some places can be considered 'cleaner' than ours. But then again, look at their human righs record, I guess.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

I left a nice comment on Chiquita's facebook page

[andyt]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

I left a nice comment on Chiquita's facebook page

But are you going to heed the boycott?

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Fuck yeah. Chiquita can suck my banana if they think I'll give them another penny.

[jeff744]

$1:

Davies pointed out that statements such as the one made by Kate Colarulli of The Sierra Club calling oilsands crude the dirtiest oil on Earth reveal a certain lack of understanding or attempts to mislead the public.

And that is why I don't listen to greens.

[saturn_656]

My wife does the grocery shopping, I've informed her not to purchase Bananas from this company.

I don't usually heed boycotts but those Mofo's at Chiquita, by being against Canadian oil, are also against Canada and Canadian jobs.

And that just isn't cricket.

[SprCForr]

No more Chiquita for me as well. The Gap did this shit a couple years ago too.

[Public_Domain]

[Thanos]

Chiquita = the former United Fruit Company = the corporate assholes who sicced the CIA, their assassination squads, and local fascist militias loose in Central America and ended up facilitating the murders of about 250 000 Guatemalan peasants, civil rights workers, land reform advocates, and labour organizers.

Yeah, an American corporation like this one sure has a lot of moral weight to throw around at others. For fuck sakes.

[jeff744]

Thanos Thanos:

Chiquita = the former United Fruit Company = the corporate assholes who sicced the CIA, their assassination squads, and local fascist militias loose in Central America and ended up facilitating the murders of about 250 000 Guatemalan peasants, civil rights workers, land reform advocates, and labour organizers.

Yeah, an American corporation like this one sure has a lot of moral weight to throw around at others. For fuck sakes.

The best part is that the greens ignore that history and are willing to align themselves with that kind of a group and even go after one of the few sources of oil that doesn't have a human price tag attached.

[andyt]

Thanos Thanos:

Chiquita = the former United Fruit Company = the corporate assholes who sicced the CIA, their assassination squads, and local fascist militias loose in Central America and ended up facilitating the murders of about 250 000 Guatemalan peasants, civil rights workers, land reform advocates, and labour organizers.

Yeah, an American corporation like this one sure has a lot of moral weight to throw around at others. For fuck sakes.

Yeah, yeah. If Chiquita announced they were specially seeking out Alberta oil because it's politically cleaner than other sources, you guys would be gorging on their products, never mind their history.

I wonder how much of their history you can hang on to the current company? Might be like refusing to buy Mercedes because it's German. Or Krupp - they make some good stuff. Or BASF. Or hell, GM for helping to build up the German war machine.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

andyt andyt:

Thanos Thanos:

Chiquita = the former United Fruit Company = the corporate assholes who sicced the CIA, their assassination squads, and local fascist militias loose in Central America and ended up facilitating the murders of about 250 000 Guatemalan peasants, civil rights workers, land reform advocates, and labour organizers.

Yeah, an American corporation like this one sure has a lot of moral weight to throw around at others. For fuck sakes.

Yeah, yeah. If Chiquita announced they were specially seeking out Alberta oil because it's politically cleaner than other sources, you guys would be gorging on their products, never mind their history.

I wonder how much of their history you can hang on to the current company?

You mean the continued human rights abuses and the financial tiddlywinks they continue playing?
From 2007

$1:

Banana company Chiquita Brands International said Wednesday it has agreed to a $25 million fine after admitting it paid terrorists for protection in a volatile farming region of Colombia.

The settlement resolves a lengthy Justice Department investigation into the company’s financial dealings with right-wing paramilitaries and leftist rebels the U.S. government deems terrorist groups.

In court documents filed Wednesday, federal prosecutors said the Cincinnati-based company and several unnamed high-ranking corporate officers paid about $1.7 million between 1997 and 2004 to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, known as AUC for its Spanish initials.

The AUC has been responsible for some of the worst massacres in Colombia’s civil conflict and for a sizable percentage of the country’s cocaine exports. The U.S. government designated the right-wing militia a terrorist organization in September 2001.

[raydan]

I guess that's Andyt's point, PA9. Why are we up in arms now, because they snub our oil, but their "continued human rights abuses and the financial tiddlywinks" didn't seem to bother us?

[PublicAnimalNo9]

raydan raydan:

I guess that's Andyt's point, PA9. Why are we up in arms now, because they snub our oil, but their "continued human rights abuses and the financial tiddlywinks" didn't seem to bother us?

It's the pathetic hyopcricy. These fucks hired and paid terrorists that murdered at least 1000 people, some estimates are as high as 4000. Then they have the nerve to get all fucking high and mighty about their "environmental concerns".

FYI, it's been YEARS since I've even seen a Chiquita brand banana so it's not like I've been supporting them up until now.

It's also quite likely the average Canadian doesn't know about Chiquita's forays into mass murder thus they had no "known" reason to boycott them previously.