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["tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>]

But don't all the horrors listed in this posting happen in this country too 
?   Thanks for the reminder, but if people refuse to see what's happening in 
their/our own backyard, the "third world" is certainly not going to hold our 
attention.   NAFEX & organizations like it can try to demonstrate that there 
IS a different way of doing things, and of wondering why things are usually 
done only one way (ie, whether that is right.)   Test-tube orchards/ 
genebanks trouble me too, because usually the totality of the knowledge need 
to make the most of these selections is lost.

tc


----Original Message Follows----
From: breen@fedcoseeds.com
Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Bananas
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:11:58 -0600

i am saddened by the lack of concern it seems that is being expressed about 
the underlying issues with these diseases. over the last hundred years, 
repressive political climates, slave labor, assinations of socialists 
leaders, and ignorance have been and are the tools with which banana cartels 
control their third world growing regions while shipping to us in the first 
world the fruits of worse than sweat shop conditions. no one commented at 
all on the issue of pesticide and fungicide exposure to workers in....

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