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Chiquita Found Guilty of Murder Abroad, Other US Food Companies May Be Next

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multinational giant that rebranded as Chiquita in 1990, sustained its banana plantations across Latin America through ruthless, bloody tactics, confronting consequences only rarely. Both the National Corn Growers Association and American Farm Bureau Federation are part of a new lawsuit challenging the U.S. federal statute.

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Look What Nicola Twilley Found in the Fridge

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” Her new book, Frostbite , plunges readers into the chilly depths of the cold chain—the refrigerated infrastructure that envelops our food as it moves from farm to table—and the far-reaching consequences of developing a food system utterly dependent on cold preservation, storage, and delivery. I think it’s a potential time bomb.