Equal Exchange Blog ... "Unconventional Bananas in Peru: An Interview with Julio Oscar Gallegos Herrera-Rambla"

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Unconventional Bananas in Peru: An Interview with Julio Oscar Gallegos Herrera-Ramblas

The U.S. market tends to treat bananas as commodities, as in unspecialized products that are virtually interchangeable, regardless of origin. Following a century of well-documented exploitative practices by U.S. banana companies, the fruit remains a top seller at U.S. grocery stores. Thanks to the conventional system, bananas are everywhere, cheap as can be, and divorced entirely from the circumstances of their production in the minds of consumers. One banana is like any other.

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