 Oilsands snub sparks banana boycottBusiness | 207754 hits | Dec 16 5:30 am | Posted by: Alta_redneck  The Alberta Enterprise Group (AEG) is calling for a boycott of Chiquita Brands International after it agreed to avoid fuels derived from oilsands crude, ForestEthics announced ThursdayCommentsview comments in forum You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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I left a nice comment on Chiquita's facebook page
But are you going to heed the boycott?
And that is why I don't listen to greens.
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.
Yeah, an American corporation like this one sure has a lot of moral weight to throw around at others. For fuck sakes.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.