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Bananas! What Dole doesn’t want known
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.
It appears that Dole likes using banned pesticides and wants to stifle dissent.
