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Glen writes;

On chiquita’s facebook page they are deleting pissed off comments from people pissed about their oilsands boycott as fast as they are getting posted – I think they need a good old SDA deluge!

10pm update – It’s a tsunami! 207 comments on the Chiquita Facebook page, and all of them negative. Putting social media together with environmental extremism as brand marketing strategy – what could go wrong? You can also email eloyd@chiquita.com.
Dec. 17th update: the deluge continues, despite their deletions. Wonder if anyone’s getting the message yet?

112 Replies to “Free Ethical Oil!”

  1. Seems like some well connected activist (perhaps ezra?) should start a ‘boycott blood oil banannas’ campaign – how sweet would that be, and what a message it would send to companies trying to pull this shit again!

  2. I would NEVER counsel anything unethical … but I’ve noticed that when squeezed VERY firmly Chiquita bananas bruise and then they get all squishy, turn brown, and nobody will buy them. Pity.
    And don’t get me started on what happens to a Fresh Express salad if a key should ever accidently puncture the bag………

  6. Haven’t seen much of the consensus media report on this story. No doubt they’ve done the calculus in advance, knowing that no matter how it’s reported, a majority of Canadians would take offense to chiquita’s position and that would help those of us defending Canada’s ethical oil sands. Also, reporting the story would help in a boycott against Chiquita — something the consensus media certainly doesn’t want to see happen. Having said that, a few weeks or a few months from now, they will have a second stage to this story, saying that a boycott called for by “some” a few weeks or a few months earlier, has failed. The consensus media will then concluded that as a result of the failed boycott — or the effectiveness of it in terms of how small or large it was — means that Canadians support, by de facto, must support the boycott. Yeah, kinda hard to get a boycott going when you don’t actually report the story to begin with.
    I watched both CBC’s The National and CTV National News tonight, flipping back and forth feverishly, trying to make sure I didn’t miss them NOT reporting it. Unless I’m missing something, unless I was watching one network at the same time while the other was reporting, then I didn’t see it. If someone can correct, if someone knows if one or both did report it tonight, then please, by all means, correct me.

  9. they deleted the post, they just erased over 200 posts stating we were unhappy. KEEP UP THE PRESSURE!!!

  11. It’s actually kind of fun refreshing the FB page and seeing the posts get deleted and new ones come up. Some poor person at Chiquita HQ is trying their best to keep up!

  13. Boycott Chiquita until they forswear this stupidity with the same intensity as they presently support the green fascist’s oil boycott.
    That means, no Chiquita bananas until they have made multi million dollar contributions to pro oil sands think tanks, and they have ceased all payments to environmental foundations of any kind.

  14. I was also deleted, and banned. But they can’t delete stuff on your own wall. So I went to my wall, and put a link to the story, and then updates talking about how they deleted comments, and blocked posters. Do the same. Let’s help this thing go viral.

  19. In the late 50s and early 60s I sailed with a subsidiary company of Chiquita Fruit, Elders & Fyffes Ltd of England I was a Navifating officer and their ships were ancient oil burners to the extreme you could see their Banana Boats coming from 15 miles away at sea belching black smoke.
    I visited their ports in West Africa, Jamaica, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama. The workers on the plantations and dockside were paid very poorly and treated worse than 18th Century slaves.
    They were a pathetic company who treated their shipping personnel poorly. I am quite surprised by their attitude towards the Oil Sands as they will no doubt have to rethink their srategy they were one of the largest importers to both the WEest and East Coasts of Canada.

  20. Let us never forget that Ft. McMurray provides tens of thousands of Canadians with good, well-paying jobs,
    which sustain not only them but often their home communities;
    while Chiquita Banana pays its workers like … peasants.

  21. It would be too bad if a CFIA officer would find a steaming pile of dog poo in a truck load of Chiquita products at a border crossing, just saying.

  24. BTW any Costco shoppers out there are safe. They don’t sell Chiquita crap and they’ve got the cheapest bananas around. I know I will never buy a chiquita banana ever again.

  25. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/12/16/2854772/chiquita-ceo-twitter-helps-me.html
    Although the link references Twitter and not Facebook, it’s social media all the same.
    Chiquita CEO: Twitter helps me listen
    Q: Why do you take the time to Tweet personally?
    Chiquitta CEO: It does help me listen and understand what’s going on with many of our consumers. It helps me inform and lead opinions, and thirdly, it makes me human. Many people think CEOs sit way up there in the stratosphere. CEOs are human like everyone else. It also helps me be more concise.

  26. Add to the list of miscreants coke and pepsi….
    I guess fruit juices make reasonable mixers….after vetting their corporate relationships….
    In other news Steven Colbert has endorsed CHRISTMAS and mocked the “holiday” thing.
    Meanwhile….
    The AFP reports that North Korea’s government has warned South Korea it will retaliate with “unexpected consequences,” should the South display Christmas lights near the DMZ that divides the two Koreas. Apparently the North regards Christmas lights as propaganda, and is accusing the South of using them to try to spread Christianity to the North.
    An associate over there says the scuttlebutt is the Norks could use artillery on christmas lights….or Seoul……
    Have yourself a merry little christmas……….

  28. Shutting down the oilsands would reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by about 38.4 Mt (megatonnes) per year. While that sounds like a lot, Canada only produces 2% of the world’s man-made GHGs and the oilsands only produce 5% of Canada’s total emissions or one tenth of one percent [0.1%] of the world’s GHG emissions. By comparison, the U.S. produces 20.2% of the world’s GHG emissions, and 27% of that comes from toxic polluting coal-fired electricity.
    The 530-square-kilometers currently disturbed by the oilsands (which is smaller than the John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral , Fla. at 570 square kilometers) is being reclaimed as an ongoing part of the mine plan as required by law and will return to Alberta’s 381,000 square kilometers of boreal forest, which is a huge carbon sink. The boreal forest absorbs 30 tons of carbon [110 tons CO2] per sq km per year. You do the maths, we’ve got the oil sands GHG emissions covered, and that’s just with Alberta’s boreal forest. Canada has about 6 million square kilometers of boreal forest, which absorbs more man-made GHGs than Canadians produce in all our cities, vehicles, aircraft and other industries. The boreal forest combined with the other forests and grasslands in Canada makes Canada a net absorber of GHGs on a global scale.
    We’re not only contributing an insignificant amount of GHGs, we absorb it all, as well as taking in additional CO2 produced by the world’s major emitters.
    If they don’t like that they can stick a banana in their ear.

  31. Bananas shipped for sale in Canada are mostly garbage today.
    The first time you eat a ripe flavourful banana in the tropics is a revelation.
    One variety tasted like a very delicate apple. Purple Mountain Brand from
    Costa Rico and Peru not too bad but disappeared from my area years ago.

  32. That ‘207’ is not accurate…my comment was up for about 15 minutes last evening, then disappeared.
    Anyone else experience that?

  35. I count at least two complete wipes of the comments section.
    The Wall does not appear to be open for comments anymore either.
    Haven’t banned me yet. Guess I gotta try harder?

  36. Heh, Chiquita’s getting the message. Banning comments speaks louder to the boneheads in management than if they’d simply left them up. There’s a basic rule in marketing that every unhappy customer creates about five more unhappy customers. Clearly they’re in panic mode; this was supposed to generate nothing but good press and it seems to be backfiring.

  38. Just sent an Email to Chiquita.
    Told them to come up with a new brand called “Hugo’s Bananas”
    After all Venezuela is an ethical country.

  39. Ditto, what Chris at 5:33 PM said.
    And yes, they are deleting comments. Mine is gone this morning and there are, at the moment, considerably less than 207.

  40. This stupidity has to be countered, weather it is the oilsands or a gold mine in Costa Rica, people need jobs. EnvironMENTALists have jobs, it is called extortion, they shake down old gullible people in old folks homes, gullible companies etc while caring not a twaddle about the environment, it is about scaring and loading their accounts nothing more. The poor people of northern Costa Rica thought they would finally have meaningful jobs with a mine being built, the company built roads and schools for the people, then the so called ecowhacos got to the corrupt courts shut it down illegally and all the people are now out of work. That is what these parasites want, more misery.

  41. Just finished the weekly grocery shopping. Our local Atlantic Super Store did not stock Chiquita bananas and happily I bought two bunches of DelMonte instead.
    Not that I think Del Monte is anymore ethical a company – but they haven’t pissed me off yet.

  42. I emailed, Yes. We have no bananas, we have no bananas today or tomorrow or the day after …

  43. bluetech says, “Is this FB stuff is being covered by the media?”
    Nah! As with their suppression of the “climategate” story when that broke, and the recent criticisms Suzuki has faced, MSM is employing the same tactic here — deliberately downplaying stories that they feel will help the pro-oil sands side of the environmental debate. Any one, group or organization that’s an enemy of the oil sands, which now includes Chiquita, has found a friend in the MSM and must be, the MSM feel, rewarded for their position by inoculating them from criticism. That’s why they’re not reporting calls for a boycott.
    When those whose causes the MSM sympathize with are under fire, they tend to circle their wagons around them. And having stated their opposition to the oil sands, Chiquita is just the latest to be given safe haven inside the circle. It’s only when Facebook is used by those whose cause(s) the MSM support — such as trying to stop PMSH’s prorogation of parliament — that they find interest in incorporating the social media giant into their reports.
    Besides, why would the MSM want to report criticism of Chiquita on this matter? That could only help in a boycott… and is that something the anti-oil sands MSM would really want to see succeed in any way? They’re too busy sorting the news in the journalistically corrupt manner they do each day — separating the stories to be loaded into the teleprompter from those never to be reported, setting those stories they have no intention of reporting out at the curb for the recycling truck to pick up.

  46. I sent my email and told them that if they wanted to be accessories to oppression and environmental degradation, they were free to do so but to not expect me to help pay for it.

  47. last I heard about bananas they were supposed to be vulnerable to some sort of fungus infection or something that was going to wipe out the profitable but genetically vulnerable common commercial variety.
    whatever happened to that story?
    fcuk I hate it when the MSM refuses to follow up on their doom and gloom.

  49. I left a comment on the Chiquita FB page last night. After reading that they were deleting comments, I went back to repost only to find their FB page “down for maintenance.” Heh.
    Also forwarded an email to this E.Loyd fellow:
    /////////////////
    Dear Mr. Loyd,
    I write today to express consternation over your company’s ill-conceived decision to boycott Canadian oil. Ignoring for the moment that such a boycott is nonsensical, since oil has no country-of-origin labeling, in caving to Big Green your company has shown disdain for its Canadian customers. Canadians are justifiably proud of their ethical oil, and tire of the relentless smear campaigns designed to hurt the Canadian oil industry. We tire also of companies, such as yours, that are complicit in advancing such smear campaigns.
    A boycott is a two-way street, Mr. Loyd. In light of your company’s recent actions, please be advised that this household, a family of six, will no longer be purchasing Chiquita products. We were regular consumers, in particular, of your Fresh Express salad products. No longer.
    Sincerely,

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