Comments on: The True Cost of Bananas https://fairworldproject.org/the-true-cost-of-bananas/ Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:42:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Anna Canning https://fairworldproject.org/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-7841 Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:42:33 +0000 https://fairworldproject.org/blog/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-7841 In reply to Addington John.

Hi John, sorry for the late reply. I’d definitely recommend checking out Park Slope Co-op in Brooklyn. Bananas from Peru may only be available part of the year but I’d start there. And also check out Equal Exchange for more ideas!
Anna

]]> By: Addington John https://fairworldproject.org/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-7805 Sat, 14 Aug 2021 23:26:58 +0000 https://fairworldproject.org/blog/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-7805 Where can I buy Fair Trade organic bananas from Peru in my area (Brooklyn NY)

]]> By: Ray https://fairworldproject.org/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-2055 Sun, 30 Oct 2016 00:30:43 +0000 https://fairworldproject.org/blog/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-2055 In Australia the bananas are over priced – $3 – $5 a kilo and a few years back after storms wiped out the banana crops up north were selling for as high as $15 a kilo

]]> By: Frank https://fairworldproject.org/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-1297 Sat, 09 May 2015 01:43:52 +0000 https://fairworldproject.org/blog/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-1297 Thanks for the article. I’ve always suspected what you wrote. Also, Jennifer is right about the taste of “non-commercially grown” bananas in banana-growing countries.
It’s hard to find fair-trade organic bananas up here in Alaska, but I will try harder to find a new source for my banana appetite. I hope others try too.

]]> By: Kristen https://fairworldproject.org/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-1161 Thu, 04 Dec 2014 18:54:39 +0000 https://fairworldproject.org/blog/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-1161 Thank you so much for posting this!! I had an idea that this was going on but resorted to putting the blame on others. It seems that in the end I actually can make a difference by being a responsible (and informed) consumer. Thank you…

]]> By: Jennifer https://fairworldproject.org/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-1142 Thu, 02 Oct 2014 14:55:08 +0000 https://fairworldproject.org/blog/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-1142 My attention was drawn to this problem when my husband and I visited Dominica and ate the best, fresh bananas ever. Since then we’ve tried not to buy the big corporation’s bananas so usually go without bananas. I wish it were easier to find fair trade bananas in our area!

]]> By: Juan Carlos Rojas https://fairworldproject.org/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-1124 Fri, 08 Aug 2014 03:33:14 +0000 https://fairworldproject.org/blog/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-1124 organically produced bananas in the Peru, isn’t as easy as it is conventional production by having a variety of chemical products to nourish plants, to control pests. While organic producers have limitations and there is no diversity of fertilizers and products to control pests and what does exist is more expensive. To produce a clean of ‘quality’ organic banana fruit such as a conventional banana is expensive. It is important that consumers understand that it is better to eat a banana with some superficial natural spots that a fruit clean carefully with agrochemicals. Many of the fruit with some natural spots and surface are discarded in the packing plants by which the producer does not receive anything, and is internally clean fruit. If this situation does not improve smallholder banana could be devoted to other activities. Best regards. Juan Carlos rojas llanque, researcher in organic bananas. bananaperu@yahoo.com

]]> By: Max https://fairworldproject.org/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-1115 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 08:52:47 +0000 https://fairworldproject.org/blog/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-1115 In Austria 1 kg of organic banana typically costs from €2 to €2,50. I’m longing for the day the government will subsidize fruit and vegetables production and totally abandon the dairy and meat industry.

]]> By: Jan https://fairworldproject.org/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-577 Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:01:40 +0000 https://fairworldproject.org/blog/the-true-cost-of-bananas/#comment-577 Today at Whole Foods in Orland Park, Illinois, I commented to the worker at the banana stand that the Dole Bananas he was unloading probably came from the hand of a slave. What I read in 2007 was that banana farmers received about 50% of the cost to grow the bananas from Chiquita, Dole, and Del Monte. He replied that it would be against the store’s mission to sell such a product. So I am going to send the store this article and urge the store to live up to its mission.

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