Tag: dole
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#MorningMonarchy: May 4, 2016
Portland pesticides, medical errors and unhealthy headlines + this day in history w/Haymarket affair and our song of the day by Japancakes on your Morning Monarchy for May 4, 2016.
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dole finally drops fatuous lawsuit against bananas!*
from ecoworldly: I am thrilled to report that the Dole Food Company has finally dropped their ridiculous lawsuit against the filmmakers of the powerful documentary Bananas!*. It appears that the courts have ruled that the fatuous defamation lawsuit of the criminally inclined Dole was proven to be nearly as lacking as the multi-national corporation’s integrity.…
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bananas!* exposes dole’s poisonous practices
from ecoworldly: An explosive new documentary, Bananas!*, examines global food politics by following the crusade of lawyer Juan J. Dominguez, as he fights for the rights of thousands of banana plantation workers in Nicaragua who have been made sterile from exposure to the banned pesticide DBCP (Dibromo Chloropropane). This toxic chemical has been shown to…