Chiquita/United Fruit Company

Cocaine smuggling, pollution, bribery of officials, corruption, using force to prevent workers unionizing… Not just a long time ago, but recently.

Ever heard of the "banana massacre":

Ever heard of the term "banana republic", yep. That's also chiquita.

Bonus, terrorism:

On 14 March 2007, Chiquita Brands was fined $25 million as part of a settlement with the United States Justice Department for having ties to Colombian paramilitary groups.

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In 2018, Colombia’s Office of the Attorney General filed charges against 13 Chiquita Brands International executives and administrators after tracing payments made by a local Chiquita affiliate to the paramilitary group AUC,

Bonus:

the banana firm carelessly exposed laborers at the Coyol plantation in Costa Rica to highly toxic pesticides on multiple occasions. Additionally, COBAL was accused of using a private militia to intimidate workers.

Look, I get it. I sometimes buy cheap clothes, I get that large companies can't always control their suppliers fully, I get that pollution is inevitable, that buying gadgets regularly isn't great and that I should recycle and reuse stuff.

But chiquita bananas… a bridge too fucking far for me.