AMST 1154 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Refrigerated Container, Chiquita Brands International, United Fruit Company
23 Apr 2017
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A case study in the politics of the food business. Iowa farms: 88,000 farms (about 2. 1 million nationally, 30,500,000 acres of farmland (36,014,000 total, top products: corn, hogs, cattle, soybeans, chicken eggs. Themes of the american business of food: the roe of changing technologies, u. s. government involvement and/or regulation, the impact of cultural authorities (e. g. , advertising) Merger of two u. s bananas importers: steamship company that shipped bananas from costa rica to east coast ( boston fruit. Company: rival company (standard fruit company) that owned railroads & plantations in central. Plantations in columbia, costa rica, cuba jamaica, nicaragua, panama, santa domingo, Manipulation of land laws through pay-offs to state officials. Started by transportation magnates: fleet of steamships, d. 1901: united fruit strikes a bargain with guatemalan dictator builds railroads, telegraphs, buys land, exempt from taxes and runs the country with a corrupt government ( banana.
