Today I'm sharing with you this article written by Honduras blogger, La Gringa called "Real Cost of Bananas". In fact, I would say that I am more on the, outraged side of feeling. I read La Gringa's blog just about every day and I always learn something. She wrote this article about bananas and now I don't know how I can possibly continue to eat or feed my kids bananas with a clear mind? Ugh! To summarize, the cost of growing and processing bananas is twisted up in political, social, and economic injustices all for the sake of having a yummy yellow banana sliced up in your morning cereal.I took the below photo from La Gringa's blog. She called it "banana+poison" which she got from La Prensa, a Honduran newspaper. Doesn't this lady look nice painting our bananas before they are packaged to land on our grocery store shelves? And why does she need a mask???
Sometimes I have such a hard time wrapping my mind around the issues in Central America. I just can't reason through my questions or concerns. I can't even write about it properly so I will only point to the article written describing the issues at hand.
I don't know what the answer is. I don't even think eating organic bananas would solve the problems. But maybe it's only killing one bird with one stone rather than killing two?
