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Bananaland: Blood, Bullets & Poison
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Bananaland: Blood, Bullets & Poison

2016-08-24 · 71 min · ★ 9.0

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For consumers, bananas are a delicious and nutritious start to the day, a healthy snack and a fixture in our fruit bowls. For millions of residents in the banana lands, the production of bananas means social upheaval, violence and pesticide poisoning. Banana Land explores the origins of these disparate realities, and opens the conversation on how workers, producers and consumers can address this disconnect.

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