4:30pm, Common House Craft Room,
Ecovillage, Ithaca
with Erin Riddle, Ithaca Fair Trade Coalition
The cheapest fruit you can buy in Canada at any time of the year is the banana, despite the banana being the most perishable fruit on the store shelves and the nearest banana plantation being 5000 kilometers away. At the plantations, workers spray tons of pesticides on the fruit, chemicals that seep into the soil and sicken the people. From the bustle of a fruit market in Thunder Bay, Ontario to the daily challenges of life in Honduras, Banana Split looks at the divide between the consumers of this staple crop and the people whose lives revolve around the “curvaceous fruit from the herbaceous plant.” Directed by Kelly Saxberg and Ron Harpelle. Produced by Shebandowan Films. 2002, Canada, 47 min.
Cosponsored by the Ithaca Fair Trade Coalition and EcoVillage.