Bananaland documentary.
This documentary is just one of the many examples of what is happening to keep up this capitalist era. Seeing what it takes to provide these low prices is horrifying. I am very passionate about this topic, seeing the corporations and what they do for profit. It is as though profit has trumped humanity, as though human rights are not as important as money. Being exposed to just a few examples of what they do, I can guess that these people are only focused on money. They live, breathe, and worship money.
In this documentary, there was a story a woman had about when the terrorist organization Chiquita hired murdered her husband and raped her little 11 year old girl in front of her. These people were paid by Chiquita to keep the people under control, as though paying this money to them could not have been used to just pay the workers fair wages? These people are not asking to have better jobs, they are merely asking for fair wages from these corporations but instead this corporation thought a better allocation of money would be to hire a terrorist organization to keep them under control.
These people running these corporations are hidden, seeing as how when a corporation is put in the spotlight they are dubbed the corporations name, such as "Dole". They are not the people's names who made these decisions that the press let out. These companies do not run themselves, they are run by people. People like you and me, but people who have a very skewed way of thinking how life should be; all about profit. Being exposed to just a fraction of what happens behind closed doors has motivated me to give an honest effort in supporting an organic and fair society. It is cool to have things cheap and disposable, but at what cost? Seeing what happens to make these low prices happen makes me sick and hope for a better world in the future.
What is money if you do not have a family, friends, or respect for yourself? The worshipping of money is why the capitalist society thrives as it does and I know that voting with my dollars for a better world is a very small thing in the big-bad corporate world but at least it is something. Standing back and doing nothing is not an option.
I also wrote about the Bananaland documentary. I was equally horrified about what corporations will do and sacrifice, namely the welfare of their fellow man for the sake of profit. I can rarely eat a banana now without just being sickened by the mounting horror stories of companies like Dole and Chiquita.
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