{"id":136,"date":"2007-09-05T18:34:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T18:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2007-10-13T18:44:31","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T18:44:31","slug":"the-banana-a-modern-agricultural-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-banana-a-modern-agricultural-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"The banana &#8211; a modern agricultural scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theecologist.org\/archive_detail.asp?content_id=1073\">This report by The Ecologist<\/a> is an eye opener, even for the eco-aware.\u00a0 It describes the banana industry today through the supply chain from plantations, with virtual slavery and toxic chemical use, through the monopolistic supply chain to the supermarket.\u00a0 The author points out &#8220;As the pursuit of competitive production has fuelled the race for minimal social and environmental standards, it is inevitable that those at the very bottom of the supply chain will ultimately pay for \u2018economy\u2019 foods, through their health and the environment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, bananas are now the single biggest profit-making item sold by supermarkets, with Tesco generating an average \u00a3800,000 profit every week from banana sales alone!\u00a0 Just four retailers \u2013 Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury\u2019s and Morrisons \u2013 currently account for 70% of all banana sales in the UK. This represents over one million individual sales every week, which should be used as a vote for Fairtrade alternatives.\u00a0 Next time you buy your breakfast banana please make it fairtrade, or diet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This report by The Ecologist is an eye opener, even for the eco-aware.\u00a0 It describes the banana industry today through the supply chain from plantations, with virtual slavery and toxic chemical use, through the monopolistic supply chain to the supermarket.\u00a0 The author points out &#8220;As the pursuit of competitive production has fuelled the race for &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-banana-a-modern-agricultural-scandal\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The banana &#8211; a modern agricultural scandal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-2c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}