costa: You weren't told if they were organic or pesticide-free, according to The Guardian. You didn't know if they came from Costa Rica or the Dominican Republic. All you knew, if you bought a bunch in 1986, was that they cost around 97p per kilo. And you certainly weren't invited to worry about the farmers who grew them or if their children went to school, or whether their villages had clinics. Back then, the countries that grew these commodities and many others were still known as the Third World, and the habit of not caring about their farming conditions was a legacy of their colonial past. You just picked up your bananas and walked to the next aisle for your coffee or tea or chocolate, none the wiser about where they came from either, or about the people who farmed them.
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