Banana Cultures Reflection

In his book, “Banana Cultures”, historian John Soluri discusses the agricultural banana industry in Honduras and how the United States had an effect on it.  One thing Soluri discussed at length was the role of women in the banana industry.  Just like in the book “Chicken”, these Honduran women were forced (in order to keep their job) to work long and tiresome hours in dangerous conditions without the proper safety required for the job.  While these women worked these long hours and lived in poor conditions, the companies in the United States were advertising their bananas using a cartoon of an attractive young lady named Miss Chiquita.  ”Banana Cultures” reminded me a lot of many of the books that we have already read and I am beginning to understand a common theme in the food industry: companies care far more about money than people.  Because of this, peoples lives are effected in many ways but mostly nutritionally from the food and physically from the labor.  Whether we are talking about pesticides or dangerous factories, something must be done to stop the food industry from treating humans like this.