Why The Banana Business Of Chiquita And Dole Is At Risk
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- Опубліковано 20 кві 2019
- A deadly fungus is spreading from Southeast Asia and wiping out whole plantations of America's favorite fruit: the banana. The tropical fruit's popularity is thanks to a few pioneering entrepreneurs, who founded Chiquita under a different name over a century ago. Now, the business they built is at risk of decimation if the fungus reaches Latin America, the source of 97% of the U.S.' banana imports.
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Why The Banana Business Of Chiquita And Dole Is At Risk
Are you worried that bananas will go extinct?
LIKE IF CNBC SUCKS
Kinda it’s good for u
Yes
no because there are several different types of bananas that will replace the cavandish. but you already know that but you tryna use scare tatcis and wow facotr to get views. when all we have to do is stop cloning the same banana.
Nah
when i heard the banana history of Guatemala, i realized that US didn't really care about if your country is dictatorship or democracy as long as your president follow US directives.
As a US citizen who hates Trump, I dont blame you all. I always check my bananas for blood.
@@justinjohnson1766 lol
Yes, somehow this is America’s fault
The US did a bad thing in 1954 but your statement "that US didn't really care about if your country is dictatorship or democracy as long as your president follow US directives." is not entirely true. There is much more too it. For examples, the US has given Guatemala 2.2 billions dollars in aid from 2001-2017
James Scholl Foreign aid is all about protecting political and economical interests, not helping the needed.
The massacre in 1928 of banana plantation workers in Colombia has been forever memorialized in the plot of "One Hundred Years of Solitude," Latin America's most famous novel. There's a similar massacre in the novel of banana plantation workers trying to rebel against a repressive regime. So, bananas are quite influential--they even inspired Latin America's greatest author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
There is also Prisión verde or Green Prison from Honduran writer Ramón Amaya Amador published in 1950, 17 year before the great Cien Años de Soledad from Gabriel García Márquez. Both of them great reads to understand the social and cultural consequences that “bananeras” in Latinamerica.
THAT NOVEL BY THE WAY IT'S SO STUPID AND REPETITIVE. IDIOTIC! FROM A COMMUNIST OF COURSE GABO THE RED
@jorge alberto ospna LMAO most of us love Gabo.
@Bo Brother this is why so many people like bananas... they have appeal... lol
THE BANANA IS HITTING BACK..A MASSACRE ..FOR BANANA..BY AMERICANS IN 1928..THE DULLES BROTHERS.. CIA.CREATED BANANAS.,UNITED FRUIT CO.
United Fruit workers: "We would like a small wage increase, so we're going on strike."
US Government: "COMMUNISM! ATTACK!"
Right
doing something similar to Huawei.
COMMIIEEE!!! REEEEEE!!
Past people: "We want to unionize ."
Companies: No. Proceeds to overthrow government
Todays people: "We want to unionize ."
Companies: No. Proceeds to close location of strike.
Sound familiar?
Eve tempted by the forbidden banana? Now THAT story makes sense!
if anything it is a metaphor for how a species dissects from asexual reproduction to sexual reproduction. at some point a mutation results in the ability of two cells to reproduce by sharing their dna, rather than replicating it's own.
They had to sanitize it for the bible.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Eve got ba nae nae'd
Name checks out
I’m so thrown off that you guys have actually made this channel interesting. This is good content >:0
Zachary Yarost This is basically Vox
Stan Smith yeah, but not AS awful.
I still think CNBC's economic coverage is god awful but I must give praise where praise is rightfully due. I can't believe that guy called bananas boring, its my favorite fruit.
CatsRCool Vox is awesome lol
And just talking about bannans
I really love these documentaries, they are so well made and enjoyable, I learn every time something new thanks to these videos!
Thank you
its like VOX
Banana
TheGarvito who cares
You should watch the war of the bananas
joelabo how in the holy hell is this video an opinion piece? I’m frankly surprised as well they put this much into this video.
Well, I can testify to this because I have been going to Brazil for over a decade, that there are definitely various types of bananas. In Brazil bananas are dirt cheap and delicious. I eat like a king in Brazil where not only fruit is varied and fresh, but vegetables, meat and seafood as well. Muito obrigado o Brasil! 🙌🏾 🇧🇷
You’re making me hungry lol
Yeah, you also get stabbed for no reason
American war monger imperialism
Before you eat a banana, always remember the number one rule:
1. Never make eye contact while eating a banana
Why it is so is this a supernatural theory
Yes, they can consume your soul if you make eye contact with a banana shaft in yer mouth
number 2 would be not to lick the banana erotically
Apparently massacres and coups didn't finish the evil companies but a fungi Will... Well well. They even made it to One hundred years of solitude. Forever immortalized in one of the greatest books of all times.
Huh? There are plenty of other tasty species (I guess cnbc tried to push the idea of "no other specie is as tasty as this one" for dramatic effect). So they will simply switch like they did back then.
@@tomjens2046 You underestimate the impact of consumer palates. Just look what happened when Coca-Cola tried making "New Coke".
*a fungus. Fungi is plural
@@MrMike-fi7kd A fungisus.
@@chatboss000 I understand, however that is a different case. If people knew current bananas died they would assume new taste and understand that is justified. If there were no old coke, new coke would be perfectly acceptable by everybody (and only because it was the option to get back to old coke, it was not)
"Bananas are doomed!"
Every other banana variety around the world: 🤔
Yeah there are other amazing bananas out there, like the ice-cream banana.
@@sourabhsen5629
And the Indian "Butter Banana"!
US Capitalism: OUR PROFITS ARE IN DANGER WE NEED TO CREATE GENETIC MUTATIONS AND PESTICIDES TO TARGET THESE OTHER BANANAS!!!
@@sourabhsen5629 the problem is that the way we farm banana's will always lead to the death of the variety we farm.
@@sourabhsen5629 The ice cream banana is such an out there flavor compared to most other bananad that it doesn't even really equate to a banana in your mind when you're eating it.
Absolutely love these informative mini-documentary type videos. Please continue making them.
Yes, but, GO FURTHER! Expose #BillGates monopolies and POISONING fruits, vegetables, and projecting his demonic ways onto people who eat meats.
Expose #BigPharma and the #FoodIndustry coverUP of their carcinogens, while breaking our hearts for donations to their sprawling #CANCERindustry!
Wow, what a high quality production. The writing and research was wonderful.
Ah, luckily the panama disease hasnt spread to Panama yet
Xennit - 🤣🤣🤣
Xopa
It was developed in Panama though to destroy competitors
@@danthetravelman9113 Ah yes, that disease devolped way back in the 30s during one of its most prominent flare ups.
Formerly known as the Noriega virus... lol
who else thought it was a VOX video?
I'm thinking that's where I saw it days ago...
Your mom did
vox is cancer and cnbc is trying to take some pointers from them
Yeah, I won't be buying Chiquita bananas anymore, thank you.
Angel La Canfora OK. Good for you lol
Angel La Canfora Same here.
You don’t want to know about your other fruit lol
You’re welcome
I will buy them double to replace you.
Oh my gosh,i never dreamed any thing like this.I love bananas but after hearing this i don't know if i can still love them.
In Brazil we have like 5 types of bananas in any supermarket you go to
É mesmo! E a gente na maioria come a Nanica(também tem outras como a Ouro e a Prata) e não a Cavendish(mesmo q as duas são semelhantes).Então, estamos salvos :3
"On this tiny island" points to New Guinea the SECOND LARGEST ISLAND IN THE WORLD....
That was so painfully american...
Geographhy Fans (aka me and a lot of other people):REEEEEEEEE
Relative to the global importance of the crop...yes. Tiny.
You took their implied meaning from that wrong.
They don't mean that it's a small island.
They mean that it's a fairly small location to be able to sustain the shear volume of banana crops for the entire world.
You're so painfully trying your best to find something offensive about bananas
@@tylergarza8695 he took the narrator at his word.
@@watchgoose And word's have meaning according to the CONTEXT they are in.
He took the narrators at his OUT of context words.
I wish they'd try to transfer the resistance gene from the Cavendish into Gros Michel Bananas, alongside the one they took from whatever wild variety the TR4 resistance came from.
The Gros Michel was supposedly much tastier than the Cavendish, kind of like those banana-flavored sweets you think don't really taste like banana at all. I'd be willing to pay a premium to have it available in stores.
It's not possible, sorry
@@amelliamendel2227 Alright, even from someone with "Mendel" in their username: Why is it not possible? If you're that certain, I'm sure you'll be able to explain in detail.
@@Krawurxus Actually, there's a Japanese team working on it, but they have been unsuccessful. The Australian team working on reactivating the resistant gene in the Cavendish have shown much more promise. The Japanese team have engineered a new form of the Gros Michel, with a lettuce-like skin that fruit fans can simply bite into with edible skins, but they are more susceptible to a mirriad of other diseases. I'm not going to give you a thesis, just use Google and have a great day. You can actually buy Gros Michel bananas, at certain markets but they are not mass produced
Does the Gros Michel exist at all anywhere (such as in a botanical garden somewhere), or is it completely extinct?
You could always make a bonsai Gros Michael banana tree with mini bananas right in your living room! It’s your chance to play God!
This video made me appreciate bananas man. Ty
I can't believe I watched a 22 minute documentary on bananas
11 min at 2x
that's bananas
Gotta love those blood stained, murderous monopolies. Now, we have Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
Oh yeah...
But instead of blood, they just sell all your personal information
Also, Apple and fast fashion companies.
Are you saying Google, Amazon, and Facebook are "blood stained?" LOL
Welcome to the Age Of Aquarius. Aka, the Age Of Information.
There's a interesting book/novel written in 1941 by costarican writter Carlos Luis Fallas called Mamita Yunai which is around the banana production and United Fruit Company labor here in Costa Rica, it has even being translated to english, chinese, etc.
Thanks for the information. I wish Mr Callas' kids would write today about the EVIL corporations annulling farmers' humanity off the earth!
I ate a Gros Michel banana in Maui. It was GREAT! $25.00 bucks for one! Too bad we lost the commercial crop.
Peeling a banana from the bottom is the best way to assert your dominance
No what u want to do is get the top part and twist it 180 degrees and the banana will open up
To assert dominance one needs to eat the banana in the peel like a boss.
@@working2bselfsufficient724 eat it with the shell
did you see how Jordan Peele eats it? watch the "Continental breakfast" video
No you just grab the top and pull backwards and you do it one section at a time otherwise it's not fun
half way through, and ive got to say CNBC did a very very good job 👍👍 surprisingly, CNBC also acknowledges the company's and America's violent past👍👍
i didn't know i was this interested in bananas 😂😂
oh yeah, my country, Malaysia, made the headlines for the wrong reasons AGAIN! 😂😂 :'(
天吉Mark. Correction America’s violent present.
Currently have military engagements in just to list a few
Iraq
Afghanistan
Syria
Yemen
Algeria
Libya
Check with your department of agriculture for statistics, banana production in West Malaysia has been declining at a very rapid pace due to Fusarium wilt. It is everywhere.
It's been importing a lot of bananas from East Malaysia, and the disease is already becoming a very serious problem there too.
Malaysian farming is not sophisticated, there's too much cross contamination that has been allowing the disease to proliferate very quickly.
@@SisyphusJP you forgot south korea ;)
Many Americans are becoming more comfortable with looking in a mirror and being unhappy with what they see.
Malaysia is a joke - the accents are so stupid
lol. They make it sound like a dire existential threat, but then slip in at the end that "Oh yeah, we've genetically engineered a Cavendish banana that's completely resistant. But oh no, a few anti-GMO people might be upset."
Problem solved.
In fact I was a bit confused at first.
I was sure something like this could be done (as it has been done many times before) but they decided to talk about this towards the end of the video.
Pretty much made the whole video senseless.
Now the real battle is getting legislation and the food authroities on board with it .
@@fanta6285 the funniest thing is most fruits we consider natural are the product of human influence since waaay before GMO existed, Bananas naturally have seeds (seriously lol) and the Cavendish variety is one of the most insipid kind of bananas, the silk banana is so superior but very delicate so can't be exported like a Cavendish due to thin skin
What gun the anti-GMO people down?
I'd love to see more content of this style from networks like CNBC... Much more.
Stuff like this is one of the reasons why so many countries are far behind technologically and socially.
I'd love to taste different varieties of bananas.
I like the other bananas more than Cavandish they have taste
Whenever I’m in Mexico I’m eating different kinds and red bananas! idk what there called
In Hawaii we have a pink banana variety that grows wild.
My favorites are baby bananas & red bananas. I agree cavandish are boring in comparison.
There's a variety that grows around here with purple skin, with a texture similar to apples and with a different kind of sweetness, love it!
Sounds like y'all eating them unripened lol I don't even touch one untill it has brown freckles
Stop mono cropping Cavendish bananas and plant variations of banana like other fruit, apple for example Macintosh, Granny Smith, Fuji, liberty etc.etc. Planting any variety of the same genes will led to massive dead to stains of certain diseases. Look at the Irish potato famine in 19th Century Irish, mono-cropping and lack varied, at it’s best.
From controlling whole countries and being known as banana republics to being endangered
*Top 10 anime plot twist*
Awesome production and design. Real journalism. Please please please continue this more NPR route of information.
22 minutes of banana video? This is banana!
You mean bananas
You mom is 22 minutes
Away
I find the Cavendish bland in comparison to a local variety we have called the Lacatan.
Cavendish is blander than most banana varieties in the Philippines
Agreed there's way better bananas outside the US.
Exactly. The United and Standard fruit companies planted, they planted for bulk, and Americans wouldn't know the difference anyways, so they didn't care about any kind of flavors.
Ive seen red bananas for sale here in Canada. They taste a bit different but not much. Never been able to find a gros michel though
Cavendish have very thick skin, lighter flesh and blander taste when compared to most (or probably all) of my local banana varieties. This is probably so they can easily ship them to all over the world. Some of the best local bananas have very thin skin and the flesh easily bruised, so they need plenty of precautions when transporting them.
Same thing with apples, America's consumers' habits are heavily shaped by massive marketing. E.g. Honeycrisp.
CNBC is good, my goal was to watch about 2 minutes of this but i just kept getting intrigued. The attention to detail is amazing and the information so priceless
Wonderfully explained.. Thanks for your efforts...
Thank you for this very informative piece. Especially some of the historical backgrounds were eyeopening. Well done!
So when are we going to get an "Avacado" news segment next? I am pretty sure there is something tragic about it.
Its tragic that I currently possess no avocados.
Avocados are being produced and sold by drug cartels and criminal organizations.
Sci show made a video about the banana apocalypse about 3 years ago AND one about how avocados being water hogs as well
Avocados from what I understand are not a high maintenance of a diva fruit like bananas are, but the drought hurt production here in California, and drug cartels have taken over avocado farms down in Mexico.
@@MaxUltimata Avocados in and of themselves may not require as much labour as bananas to grow, but the fact that they require enormous amounts of water to fruit would make them high maintenance surely? That water could be put to much better use I would have thought.
I blame all the millenials and their arseing avocado toast 🤔🤔
when Canary islands is named in a internet video :D hello from the canary islands!!
I'm from USA lol
For fun I've been collecting the stickers from Chiquita bananas the past 3 or 4 years, as the company comes out with various themes a few times each year. Until about this past December (2019), I've usually seen non-organic bananas labeled from Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Honduras (and organic ones mostly from Ecuador and Peru, but I pay less attention to these as they don't have special themes for their labels), but since December the non-organic ones have only been from Guatemala. I'm wondering if there is a particular reason for this, such as a political, economic or quarantine issue involved.
Most people think the bananas originated from Central/South Americas.
As shown it actually comes from South East Asia.
I like many didn't know that. Very interesting.
I think most fruits that we grow here in Latin America actually come from southeast asia, India more specifically. Native fruits usually don't taste as good (as they haven't been selectively bred for thousands of years) and are rarely produced comercially.
Many crops that are commonly associated with Central/South Americas came originally from other places, but became an important part of local agriculture, like banana, coffee, coconut, orange, watermelon, mango...
CNBC didn’t you guys upload this video a few days ago 🤔?
Anyway I like your channel 😆😊.
Exactly my thought, but for some reason, I think I have watched it on vox
cnbc = vox..?
Romanke huh ?
I thought so too.
I am confused too
Thank you for sharing history and knowledge. I lived in Hawaii and always had apple bananas ripening from a string on my front porch. They would ripen 1 row at a time and a favorite for my guests visiting. I always had bananas to share. Because I would hike through the rain forests and harvested wild bananas.
gotta love Fungi! the true rulers of the planet!
and they love mono cultures...
Im insanely grateful for the work of my ancestors
Your mom is insanely grateful
GMOs will unironically stop this
What will be interesting is what will happen in the EU. They will have a choice of GMO, or no bananas. My guess, they'll buy GMO bananas, then find some way to rationalize it and blame the US.
i would bet money that the gmo bananas are already being sold. i buy a lot of bananas, and in the past year or so i've noticed a major change. some bananas are normal, but some have a totally different consistency or texture- thicker, denser, creamier, with a somewhat banana pudding taste. and these also have a thicker peel that is also denser and does not peel as easily. this is never the case when i buy organic bananas, which i hadn't often done because i knew bananas were not gmo anyway, and had little chance of being contaminated due to their protective peel.
i was already familiar with the brutal 'banana wars', but now that i know that gmo-ing bananas is a thing, i guess i'm going to go organic when possible... until bananas disappear all together?
@@nonyabizness.original I'm thinking you should try some other banana, or rather plantains.
@@nonyabizness.original That's more to do with soil quality and other random factors of the plant's growth. GMO isn't so cheap and easy that you can randomly GMO bananas just to change its taste.
Also GMO won't affect humans. It's altering genes of a banana. You aren't a banana so it's not like the banana genes has any effect on you.
Also, your body destroys much of the DNA in foods you eat daily. Upon digesting food, DNA of wheat, beef steak or anything you had for dinner is completely torn apart and shredded by your stomach acid. Since all DNA is indiscriminately destroyed, whether the food is organic or GMO hardly matters anymore when it's inevitably going to be torn to bits.
Maybe GMOD the other Bannana species as well
You forgot to mention the part where researchers in Honduras over the past 30 years have bred a variety of banana with a taste similar to the superior Gros Michel but resistant to all known forms of Panama disease, without the use of genetic splicing (GMO). It's called the Goldfinger.
Thank you for this information.
This video jumps around the 1900s, confusing the timeline. One moment we're in the 1950's, and the next we're back in the 1920's, then back in the 1950's & 1960's again.
Are you too stupid to keep up?
So glad I grow bananas in my backyard.
Pretty sure they are vulnerable to Panama disease, too.
@@christianlibertarian5488 How so ?
My banana trees were planted 8 years ago.
I'm pretty sure that they're fine.
"Vulnerable to..." and "diseased with..." are different, my friend. Should somebody come by with the Panama fungus on his boots, your trees could be toast.
@@christianlibertarian5488 Oh, okay.
Christian Libertarian the video said not all varieties are affected by the fungus. The gmo bananas used genes from a different variety of banana that is resistant. Easier fix is, use some of the many varieties that are naturally resistant instead of trying to preserve a greedy industry. If that can’t be done on the giant mega farm scale, then the best solution if you like bananas is to do exactly what average Luke is doing. Plant a banana tree in your yard. Or in a pot on your patio.
Cavedish is overrated, try other bananas in Asia. :P
Remember when banana have seeds? :)
Please delete this comment before those companies come to your country.
It's not overrated, it's just found easily found.
@@eloska589 It's expensive in asian supermarket, compared to our local variants.
try the Japanese Fiber Banana, that one is tasty af
Fantastic documentary.
Thank you. Greetings from Portugal.
I've noticed bananas don't taste the same as when I was younger.
I believe that it is possible that fruits and other edible plants are manipulated through cross pollination to improve sales and profit. I do think this mainly means taste improvement. Can food be too tasty? Do we become addicted? I think we might.
The problem is all the chemicals use to grow bananas today. In Ecuador we grow bananas but normally most Ecuadorians only eat the chemical free ones , at least the ones that know the difference . And the chemical free ones are cheaper
@@gtable Or it could be the simple case of taste (buds) changing with age.
@@verygoodbrother I don't think so . There is a huge difference in flavor . I've tasted both organic and non organic bananas again huge difference .
So true, I remember eatting a banana once in Texas when I was about 6 or 7. That smell, taste, and sweetness I got from that banana was my last.
21:04 How did she say the "World Banana Forum" with a straight face hahaha. Great video though
Because there is billions of dollars in bananas.
I don’t think anyone said it, but it’s a banapocalypse!
Wish I had said it.
Your mom said it
Should be "bananapocalypse"!!!
The term bananapocalypse has been in the news for a while.
Bravo, very insightful and learnt a lot!
I don't think Cavendish bananas are that good....it's flavorless compared to Asian types
Agree I wish there are more varieties available with affordable prices
Actually it taste good if you grow it in you in a green house. Here is an example of how to grow tropicals fruit in places like central valley. ua-cam.com/video/otaIdYAZOKE/v-deo.html
I agree and I am from the Philippines. I detest the cavendish variety.
you can get some in my backyard. Bananas are grown everywhere, even in streets in countryside. In bohol, philippines, neighbors will share the banana harvest since one bud can have a hundred bananas, it is to avoid spoilage and show goodwill to neighbors. In cities, not really due to lack of garden space
@Bo Brother Pouring chocolate over bananas is just to disguise its blandness. If you ever get the chance to sample bananas in Asia you'll be wondering "what the hell was I doing with chocolate!"
Short, informative and interesting documentary 😄
Your mom is short, informative, and intresting
Monsanto has a new client.
If it means allowing them to continue to grow bananas, then good for them.
Well, here in Brazil the canvendish variety is just one in a plethora of types we have available. This desease will just scratch us eventually, but it won't harm us big time.
5:55 : United Fruit Slaughted Innocent Civilians and banana workers, 3000 dead from premeditated mounted sentry gun entrapment.
no local forces did
@@Vivoz389 they did so because if they didn't the country is gone lol.
lol
God bless America. F#ck the rest.
@@danielzunigagutierrez6300 but the EU is the largest consumer of bananas...
we invaded Guatemala not because of morals or democracy but because of businesses
Just like Iraq and the other 7 US wars of the past decade where US was the aggressor and invader.
So I feel like different kind of bananas will be introduced into the mainstream market, and every hipster will start to eat it as the alternative to the normal yellow ones.
Heres also a fun fact: Bananas are radioactive.
Well bannanas are my favorite food so i hope that will never happen
Cool. Did you know the sun is also radioactive?
@@cs0345 yeah, so are granite countertops, cigarettes, and even smoke detectors...
But you cant eat any of those things, or take a bite out of the sun.
New Guinea a small island. Don't be silly CNBC.
“Tiny” yeah....
" I'm the Chiquita Banana and I'm here to say, we killed alot of people for your breakfast today"
All this is even worse when you realize how many bananas get thrown out at grocery stores every day. Most shipments aren't left out on shelves for much more than a day or two.
Cause morons wont buy a single banana that has one dark spot.
You should go to the farms and see how many they throw out before they get to the supermarkets.
Too big , too small , too straight.
@@DelC90
Yep, that's the case with nearly all produce sadly. The only other produce I see getting cycled out off shelves in the store as quickly as bananas are lettuces though. And those are a production mess too since we're spending so much of our resources to basically ship water and some fiber.
I don’t know why. Sometimes my mother lets them completely brown to make fritas, they are kinda like pancakes just ten times better.
Your mom gets thrown out of the grocery store every day
Because bananas are the fruit people deserve..but not the one it needs right now
i should really think twice before buying chiquita anything ever again. even dole....
22 minute intro to, “Why all bananas have to be GMO in the future.”
Paid for by Monsanto’s marketing department.
Monsanto is certainly bad in my opinion but this knee jerk rejection of everything GMO is stupid. There is nothing inherently wrong with GMO. We will have GMO bananas or no bananas at all on the US mainland. While they are at it, I hope they add some flavor. The apple bananas in Hawaii are much better tasting than the Cavendish. And wouldn't it be nice if they could bring back the American chestnut? I wonder if there are any survivors from which geneticists can create resistant strains.
Hey random person scrolling down the comments..
Have a great day! :)
GuelphRacing You too!
Here in Brazil we have a greater variety of bananas readily available in markets on a national level, and let's not forget the many regional varieties. It seems we are safe
João Pedro True, I love the Prata, Maçã, ouro, and nanica! Bananas are awesome in Brazil! However, strawberries are awesome in Europe and the US whereas they are terrible in Brazil 😆
The Philippines is a bigger supplier of bananas but consumes Lakatan and Saba bananas while exporting the Cavendish bananas as that taste sucks.
Already learned most of this watching Drunk History.....but thanks for the recap!
I love these videos!
Please make a documentary about Oranges, i love them too and also make one about Broccoli I love me some broccoli too.
More oranges and juice comes from Brazil than from Florida these days.
Is that a banana in your pocket or are you glad to see me?
Your mom is glad to see me
VG VESON did he spurt in your eyes!
i like that background music reminds me on some psybient music:)
Really interesting and well-organized video.
This is actually highly informative. We must save our banana
It's already been lost actually my friend you mean we must save 'the' latest iteration of a banana that we. as a society (but really only due to retail pressures and climate killing low prices) have adopted as our own.
@@djosearth3618 true. The modified version we must save.
@@djosearth3618 not funny
The banana will be fine.
oh darn! what will i keep on the kitchen counter for 1.5 days before it turns brown now?!
Brown bananas taste better anyways, all the starch has broken down into surgar at that point. If you dislike the textute of them then use brown ones in banana bread or other cooking recipes.
i like green bananas with just enough yellow on them that they don't taste completely green or completely yellow.
I've never been brave enough to open a brown banana and taste it - good to know! :p@@probablynotdad6553 Usually they go into the freezer for smoothies ^.^
now we know the answer to the question: what does the color green taste like ^.^@@treatb09
@@REDACT3D They taste better they're just mushy like baby food.
Great VID !!! MORE PLZ
Top countries by total banana 🍌 production
(1)India 🇮🇳 :- 35M metric tons
(2)China🇨🇳:- 15M metric tons
(3) Indonesia🇮🇩:- 7M metric tons
(4)Brazil🇧🇷:- 6.6M Metric tons
(5) Ecuador🇪🇨:- 6.4M Metric tons
(6) Philippines🇵🇭:- 5.7M metric tons
Mamita Yunai by Carlos Luis Fallas, i good book to read
Hello. My name is josh. I can assure you that Chiquita Banana and corporations of the world are still taking advantage of citizens. I live in Costa Rica, and Dole still underpays people in the Jamaican/Northern parts of Costa Rica, like a region named 'Limon' (Also, conditions of water there are extremely poor. I have a friend who is a teacher who works doing community work there and has told me sometimes the water looks like coffee). Likewise in Costa Rica, companies like Amazon, are manipulating information with government tax-evasion zones called Zona-Francas. If you want to stop corruption that is still continuing in the world (Slave labor in Asian countries to produce electronic devices for companies like Amazon, Apple), and get workers rights and pay at a livable wage worldwide, please report on this. Research 'Zona Francas'. Also research the companies that take calls for Amazon (in India, Haiti, Jamaica, Columbia, etc.) Investigate companies like Sykes that work as parent companies for call centers for companies like Comcast. The production to the customer service for products sold are very corrupt. Please report on this.
I don't use Amazon, used once, never will again
Why i'm deep diving bananas is beyond me. But i'm fascinated
thank you for your video
"That crunch right there"
That man is sick.
Banana flavored Runts are fungus resistant.
I don't know what you are talking about, but it seems highly suspicious that a fungus can take over the world. It seems more like EVIL corporations are letting the fungus destroy farmers, so corporations can finally emerge like saviors, only to take over the business without any "bitter, little, pesky" farmers.
Nothing is cheap in this world, there is always someone somewhere that pays the price.
I from Somalia we love bananas and it grows in our country so much
I will never buy, and will make sure my wife doesn't buy anything "Chiquita" ever again.
maybe don't buy anything every since everything has a root in violence at some point.
@@Inspectorzinn2 Hiring terrorists in 2006 is a rather short root.
I think Chiquita slaps advertising labels like Lion King and Incredibles or some crap. I don't buy bs like that. Putting ads on fruit.
You probably shouldn't buy gasoline anymore either...People are still dying today over oil.
@@extra_ice_girl "People are still dying today over oil." is shale oil so bad? :-)
The cevendish banana was used to displace bananas throughout the West indes but do not have their nutritional value
Both French Caribbean (Martinique and Guedeloupe) are poisoned with a pesticide we call chlordecone , water, soil, and 92% of the population, they have the highest rate of prostate cancer in the world.
A health scandal that France does not assume and is still pending
Saludos a todos la colombianos, guatemaltecos !
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OMG, the violent history of bananas. I had no idea. 😮...Wonderful fruit, btw, yes.
I worked for United Brands in their Packaging R&D department from 1978 - 1981.
I work with an art studio on Boylston Street to add the right arm to Miss Chiquita 😊…
I tell my kids from “the number of stickers printed standpoint” it was similar to putting a smile on George Washington’s face on a one dollar bill… 😂
I have some of the original 1 million “test” Avery Label “Chiquita Stickers” printed in 1963…
The Avery Label salesman said, at the time in ‘63, “the test” was the largest order for pressure sensitive labels Avery has ever received…😂
Humans: Let's cultivate and make clones of the bananas to prevent diseases.
Panama Disease: *Hold my beer*
Fun fact: the artificial banana flavor (which can be discovered in candy or instant puddings..etc) comes from the widely cultivated Gros Michel banana 🍌
Yea the more I learn about things in my life, the sadder I become about the world.
WOW! Amazing History Lesson!
The only thing left out was how the clothing company "Banana Republic" fits into the equation. LOL
How the Hell can you discuss the United Fruit Company without mentioning Edward Bernays?
And the term “Banana Republic”
Extremely poor journalism.
stewart hart care to say more?
Don’t be petty. It doesn’t add that much to the story told here.Bernays was just a tool, a catalyst for a phenomenon bound to happen anyway - the merging of enterprise, government and media in one grand strategy. A lot of talent contained in one single man though.
This is not an educational video. It is factual and topical. Your standards for good journalism is very weird.
Amanda
Very true
This video most certainly isn’t educational
Leaving out the person who invented and implemented the propaganda campaign
Isn’t good journalism
Not sure if I agree it was needed in this video, but damn Bernays lived an interesting life.
Use that special soil from Ireland with the good bacteria 🦠 and see if it kills the fungus.
That tropical irish weather
Very Good!..