Nestle? Spectrum? Some random company nobody knows about?

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Murdered numerous workers, women, and children in the US for starting a union. Government let them do it with no repercussions. .

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Who did?

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Dutch East India Company or VOC for sure.

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Well yeah that’s in a class of its own, for sure.

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What’s so bad about coffee? If you don’t drink too much its not that bad right?

I guess that applies to alcohol as well.

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The exploitation that comes with it

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Right that makes sense. I don’t know how much faith to put in fair trade labels but they’re probably not all bad.

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Chiquita bananas. They literally stole entire south/central American countries and used death squads and the CIA to enslave the workers and kill them when they asked for such unreasonable demands like being paid in actual currency

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And we’ll never even get to know what the Gros Miguel Banana tasted like!

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It tastes like the marshmallow banana candies/“fake” banana flavouring

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Don’t forget Dole. They caused the annexation is Hawai’i.

Both have paid terrorist organizations in the last couple decades.

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Banana Republic is a termncoined for all the countries where this company operated.

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As someone who lives in a banana republic that now has banana republic stores in its malls, this is a perplexing and sort of insulting end result, and I don’t understand how the name of the store ever took off

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Hard to pick a favorite from the long list.

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