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Ahhh,
bananas, we all love
them, but have you ever seen
the packaging process?
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Large
plantations such as
these generally came at the
cost of utterly clear cutting
thousands of acres of
rain forest and virgin land.
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An
intricate, yet simple,
system of pulleys and wires
and rollers bring in the
cut batches of bananas
from the fields...
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The
cuttings, and their
protective blue covers
await cleaning and
boxing... |
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Our friend next cuts the
bananas into smaller
bunches...
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and
as they are cut, they are
thrown into the first cleaning
tanks and washed...
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At
the end of this first line, the
leftover stem is discarded and
the blue covering sent back
to the field to protect more
bananas from pests and
other nasties...
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anything
less than Grade "A"
is thrown into the truck with
domestic destinations...
the best come north to
GringoVille...
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The
red bags going back out
into the fields are bags of the
blue protective bags...
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