Imagine the persons hands who had picked these bananas under the tropical sun of ecuador

The Daily Feed - A Sunday afternoon behind Kantarellen and City Livs, Nov. 29th, 2009

here is your approach
hey even a pineapple again, some nice pears, loads of fair-trade bananas, some oranges, still have loads of organic South-Tyrolean apples from a few weeks ago

Just for kicks..a little journey.....Imagine this sunny day on a volcanic hillside in some central American nation, hey it might even be Ecuador...
The workers of the fair trade banana cooperative are cycling from their rural huts made from clay with rusty tin roofs to work. Passing through an area that 20 years ago used to be thick second growth rainforest, then became a heavily sprayed and fertilized banana "factory", people got sick, children died from the toxins, the water was undrinkable, then fair-trade came around, wages improved, consumers in Europe decided they didn't want to eat shit (even though millions of flies seem to suggest otherwise), and didn't want the folks who picked their yellow happy bananas to walk around with tumors on their neck the size of melons,
the future had arrived, and all seemed happy ever after.

Imagine those workers hands, suntanned, creased, happy, strong, male, female, beautiful, dirt under the fingernails, a silver ring perhaps, here and there, a quick cut, skillfully executed with a special harvesting knife, the green fronds are strong but need careful handling non theless, so they don't arrive here as mush!

Voilà!!!

And imagine that these ships who bring the bananas still pollute the oceans, the heavy delivery truck traffic splits ours and their towns down there with noise and black diesel soot, the jungle still gets cut down for more hectares of bananas, coffee, whatever! you name it, they grow it!
Central America still has some of the most bio-diverse ecosystems in the world. On km2 has more different species than all of Scandinavia, and many are not even named yet or already extinct before ever discovered.

And here, what happens after all this journeying of these bananas, pineapple, mangoes whatever,
a great many of them lie on display for week and then end up in the compost bin.
Have a close look, it is basically a daily occurrence, look at my other blog entries, you will literally get the picture and not just one, many, and what can you do. Change your habits, don't be so picky, or join me behind the shop for a post harvest harvest.

So come and Grab a paper bag from the recycling bin

Avoid these beasts, usually they are locked and designed to crush everything that goes into them




Rather head for these babies!
beware of the hungry cats nearby!




Open up one and behold.....!
37 pounds of butter, bäst före 25. and 27.11.09
would you throw it out if it was over by one day in your fridge?
not to speak of all the joghurts, and cottage cheese......



Well, heck 5 litres of eko a-fil
bäst före 25.11.2009

Hey there's the cat food, lots of fish, eggs, you might want those, knowing that eggs keep for months when refrigerated and even without

Cat or dog food, from happy cows and pigs
tortured and murdered in some animal concentration camp perhaps even near you

Not enough to take to home your friends yet, well there always is the plentiful dumpster in the city Center, at City Livs.
here one possible approach




My god!, they didn't spare tomatoes today
I guess it's "Små Jul"(Little Christmas) here today.
Thank you!




....and do i need more fair trade bananas? brings the harvest up to 30 kg again, oh well, what the ....
they are too good to pass up, peel them, freeze them for later, give away to strangers and friends, indeed there are many excellent possibilities on a fine day...
i took some bananas hiking to Orrdalsklinten in the moonlight today, yippeee!
That was a worthy end for them i reckon,
not in a dark plastic box, they are tropical beings, duh!




really makes for a nice bouquet, doesn't it?




again! avoid these compactors, or shops that only have them, best, boycott shops who lock their dumpsters and destroy food without letting people who feel like it rescue the stuff, and let them know why you are boycotting them too.
Rather go for the green plastic compost bins to the left




Open it, wide, eyes wide, dive, lunge, pick
your choice of salad or broccoli, got sheep? you might wanna take it all!!