As Swedes started taunting Dole Foods with complaints that it is trying to limit free speech, the food manufacturer backed off from a defamation lawsuit it had filed against a Swedish filmmaker, whose documentary film “Bananas!” shows the plight of Nicaraguan workers who say they were made sterile by a pesticide used at Dole banana plantations in the 1970s. The lawsuit incited protests in the country, led by critics who claimed Dole was prohibiting freedom of speech.

Bulldog Reporter – Daily Dog | | After Free-Speech Complaints Flare Up, Dole Foods Drops Its Defamation Suit Against Filmmaker’s Movie About Banana-Worker Health Issues

It appears that Dole likes using banned pesticides and wants to stifle dissent.