[Sca-cooks] OOP Bananas

[Terry Decker]

If everyone stops eating bananas, what happens to the people who work the 
plantations?  They probably start growing cocaine for a cash crop.  Simply 
boycotting bananas is not an answer.  It won't hurt the fruit companies, 
which are diversified corporations.  It may irritate the governments a 
little, but that won't be permanent.  The people that will get hurt are the 
little guys who lose their jobs.

Bear

> Found this while reading the White Lily Story:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/opinion/18koeppel.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=bananas&st=nyt&oref=slogin
> And I just made banana bread this weekend past! Bleah, gues I have to stop 
> eating them, feel like a prat for being a complacent middle class 
> American. You hear cocaine cited as one of the causes of Latin America's 
> problems, but not bananas, not much. Wonder if there are any banana 
> varieties that will grow in North Florida...
> YIS
> Isabella