What about being around 10000 bananas for 8 hours? Are people on banana plantations at significantly higher risk of cancer?
Come mista tally man
Tally me tumours
Daylight come and me need to go hospital 😔
What about being around 10000 bananas for 8 hours? Are people on banana plantations at significantly higher risk of cancer?
Come mista tally man
Tally me tumours
Daylight come and me need to go hospital 😔
I’m aware of BeD, which is the inspiration for the post.
But I’m not talking about radiation poisoning, because we’d know if spending a day in a banana plantation was fatal.
I’m wondering about increased risk of cancer form long term banana plantation exposure.
I used to work in chemical exposure insurance and to be honest, it would be very difficult to tell because of the increased risk of cancer from chemicals used in the growing process as it is. Most of the countries that have banana plantations can’t really defend their citizens against huge fruit companies, so if something has been declared illegal in Hawaii, they just use it in their other plantations, and of course the US is dismantling the EPA and NLRB, so soon they might not even be illegal there anymore. Organic fruit is not significantly different, because there are lots of things that are allowed for them that are still carcinogenic to humans in large concentrations.
I’m really sorry to be a downer, but sometimes the world sucks, and pineapple and banana companies suck even more.
A couple things we can gather from these sources: