going bananas!

[Airika]

http://www.naturalnews.com/z023339.html

:scratch:twitch And I was worried about Monsanto...

[HSmomto4]

When we heard about this, we went out and bought a banana tree so we don't have to pay so much in the store.

Edit: OK I thought this story was on the tree's dying and that is why we bought our tree. I need to learn to read for than just the first paragraph before I respond LOL

[Maggie]

Hmm...On the one hand she sounds like a communist who can't stop saying "Corporations = bad" and on the other hand this corporation really does sound very bad. I don't know. She keeps hitting you over the head with the idea that all monocultures and all corporations and all big business is evil...tho it sounds like this one is.
I'm all of a sudden not hungry for bananas anymore.

[Issachar]

If you go to youtube and search on Shell in Nigeria, Shell in Ireland, diamond mining, gold mining, the banana things mentioned in the OP ... any large, multinational corp, you will find a lot of injustice. Are the heads of these corporations evil? Well, no more than any human. We are all born sinners and sinner = selfish. Greed is part and parcel with the fallen human nature. Humans innately know that there is "happiness" to be had. It can only be true and eternally satisfying in the Kingdom of God which is where we are in Christ. Outside of that, humans will do ANYTHING to achieve it. Mowing down other humans in the process is not something that matters to them. This is the way of the world as opposed to the way of the Lord.

There are only two sorts of people on the earth. Those born once and those born twice. Imho, it matters not, if one is only born once, if they are a business owner, factory worker, Democrat, Republican, wiccan, religious, conservative, liberal, communist ..... they are all of the same kingdom; the kingdom of this world. If born twice, we are translated into another realm. We see things differently here. We hear things differently, we think differently, we are in fact, new creatures in Christ. The Father of that new creation that we are in Christ, is God. That separates us from where we were as far as the East is from the West.

The history of the railroads is a sad one too. At this point in my journey, I tend to see the things that the world does as being one big caboodle. Jesus said that one can serve God or mammon. There was no inbetween or degrees. I'm hoping that the way I am seeing things is due to His renewing my mind as stated in Romans 12:2.

The demands that Walmart and others put on the sweat shops in China are not at all humane. But what else can they do? If one is not born again, they are stuck with the fallen nature and can only do what it dictates because ..... well, because that is there nature.

At the end of the article in the OP, we see that the author is tied up with Gaia ... the so called earth goddess. It's likely she is wiccan to one degree or another. But that doesn't negate facts. (I'd like to confirm some of the "facts" independently) Those folks are usually very tuned in to what is going on when it comes to food supplies. Don't worry, I don't hang out with them. :) I'm just saying ... facts are facts regardless the source. It's always good though to make sure that the "facts" are facts. I suspect most of the article is true.

Issachar

[Maggie]

Thank you, Issachar, for saying everything I was thinking. I saw the "Gaia" connection, too. Having been involved in all that before having been born the second time - it sets off red flags for me.
What is it about pagans - environmentalists - whatever - that they're so involved with food? My brother and sister are so into organic and fair trade practices and buying locally...they wouldn't step into a Walmart or a McDonalds to save themselves. It's their religion - food. Their lives seem to revolve around it.
Come to think of it - there is something...cleansing...about having a "pure" diet. It's coming back to me now how I used to think that if I ate a pure diet - whatever that meant to me at the time - then I would be "pure" and "clean". Well, it's no substitute for Jesus - but I guess that's what it was to me. And what it is to them.
Sorry - I'm not thinking too clearly today. Sort of rambling in my mind. Maybe it's all the loss of blood I experienced watering the tomatoes and picking strawberries. The mosquitoes! :gaah