What in the orphan crushing machine is this shit?!
https://maritime-executive.com/article/bananas-ahoy-as-overboard-containers-wash-ashore
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
I never read the grapes of wrath, but I should.
Please do. It’s an amazing piece of art.
Prosecuted for what? Enjoying a meal? A succulent, banana meal?
Are they going to fight? I bet they know their judo well!
Nah, they were dumb enough to lose them, those bananas are fair game.
This reminds me of when a large whiskey distillery broke in 19th century Ireland and many people died. Not from large quantities of alcohol sweeping people away (something like that happened in London in the early 19th century) but from passerby drinking so much of the stuff they died of alcohol poisoning.
Most Irish way to die ever!
You need to leave alone the earthly process of food falling off container ships. It’s nature’s way.
Fuck the bananas
I want the Cocaine washing up on the shores
I honestly feel like cocaine to a large extent is partially responsible for much of the world’s malignant narcissist billionaire evil rulers. And hence, you are not allowed to eat bananas. So maybe the world needs less cocaine, not more.
Naw, we just need equal access to cocaine. Level the playing field with subsidized cocaine I say!
Universal basic coca
Eating beach bananas sounds like a great way to get some kind of weird illness. It’s not like there’s a nearby banana tree that they could have come from. But maybe I’m just too accustomed to grocery stores
Wonder what all that banana skin soaked up.
Ocean water that everyone swims in perfectly fine
That delicious plastic and sewage and population. It does a body good.
I don’t want to eat the skin
You won’t have to, the edible part of the banana will absorb the skins content.
Cocaine
I would just assume that through osmosis those bananas ate salty as fuck, plus I have seen the size of the fucking spiders on some of those bananas being shipped here, no fuck you
The tarantulas have usually abandoned the bananas by the time we eat the bananas.
Oh fuck it’s that where tarantulas come from? Bugs are so confusing
I assume the spiders would have died, and now you have delicious, brined cooking bananas!
Weird, right? On the one hand - we dont eat banana peels. So, it must be fine, right? But on the other hand, I’d also hesitate to eat a snickers bar washed up on the shore.
I don’t know anything about British courts, but I doubt that any court is going to find anybody guilty of any major crime for collecting bananas washing up on the beach, for which the corporation that lost them got an insurance settlement to cover the loss. That’s salvage, and salvage rights are long established.
I’ve seen Oliver twist, they are ready to sentence people to jail for this crime.
But…
The Charter of the Forest declared that people are free to sustain themselves from the land.
This is the sea no?
Police, customs authorities, and the Receiver of Wrecks have warned beachcombers not to eat the bananas or to take them home.
This is the only mention in the linked article.
Receiver of Wrecks is a pretty metal title tho. If he’s telling me to do something I might listen
But the daily mail said it, it must be correct if the daily mail said it, they’re such a reputable and neutral news organisation, they would never just make up wildly misleading, fear mongering click bait headlines.
Honestly, how anyone who can string more than two thoughts together would ever think the DM is a reputable source for a claim is a mystery to me.
People online don’t always seem to realise that the Daily Mail is considered THE worst newspaper publication, in the entire UK. It’s the sort of thing you wouldn’t pick up to line your floor for a new dog.
The Morning Star, which last I saw one had a 2 page spread: “STALIN DID NOTHING WRONG “.
May I introduce you to the Daily Express
Please do not.
british government more protective of bananas arriving on shore than they are refugees
This government has arresting people for demonstrating against that government’s active support of the mass murdering of children in Gaza, so morally speaking, putting bananas ahead of people (even poor Brits who might actually need those free bananas) is nothing in comparison.
Sometimes I suspect that making sure people suffer is their whole point.
Damn
bananas have more rights and people in Britain apparently
Daily Mail propaganda worked I guess. They just warned people because they might not be safe to eat. The government never actually said they’d prosecute anyone it was just a warning.
First. As mentioned by MonkderVierte, not fine but a warning.
Second. I’d really think thrice to pick up washed on the shore bananas, or just about anything edible. Basic hygiene to me. Many would disagree with me and say that one can rinse it off. But I don’t know, man. Guess I am a germophobe.
Guess UK government is just trying to protect people from possible health risks. Cause, let’s fucking face it. Tons of people have issues with hygiene. You can’t expect everyone to at the very fucking least rinse these bananas, let alone rinse them well. Also, can you imagine any world government to proudly tell people “There’s bunch of bananas washed up on the shore. Go pick’em up! Free potassium snack!” ?
Sad to see this many of fruit being wasted.
You couldn’t pay me to eat a banana that came from the ocean.
It better be washed at least
Second. I’d really think thrice to pick up washed on the shore bananas, or just about anything edible. Basic hygiene to me.
What do you think of potatoes, then, which grow in a mixture of soil and manure? Or carrots?
The beach is a nesting ground of vast biomes of creatures, singled-celled, through to vast arrays of worms, some parasitic, all the way up to burrowing arthropods like sand fleas and their many, many cousins. We don’t usually have problems with any of this stuff when we swim or hang out on the sand because… and I cannot stress this enough, we do not eat raw produce we find in the sand.
Please do not eat raw produce you find in the sand.
I wouldn’t eat carrots from the ocean either
What about tuna?
I wouldn’t eat tuna if it washed up on the beach
I mean, I peel them and wash them right after. Then I cook them in boiling water or fry on a pan. Not eat raw.
Loads of people wash, peel, and eat raw carrots, though. It’s not unhygienic at all.
Yep. Lots of us do, me included. The only thing is that I peel them first and then wash them thoroughly before eating. I do not wash bananas. But I also do not buy bananas washed up on the shore.
You don’t need to rinse the bananas though… You just peel them and throw the peel away, whatever was on the peel does not need to touch anything close to your mouth at all.
I don’t think banana peels are waterproof, and the ocean is full of stuff you don’t want to ingest.
this reminds me of the famous quote in the grapes of wrath
The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
I thought of exactly the same thing!
The British people really would benefit from all collectively refusing to vote for their mainstream parties and instead voting for independent anarchist parties which try to get rid of as many laws and government institutions and also nationalize anything the people will be better served by, under collective ownership. All it really takes I think is to just talk to people. Tell them to stop voting for those parties and if they can’t resist then to stop watching the news media which fills their minds with anxiety.
Laughs softly in spreading American corporate virus
While that specific scenario is unlikely, I do hope that Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party succeed in dissolving the UK
instead voting for independent anarchist parties which try to get rid of as many laws and government institutions and also nationalize anything the people will be better served by, under collective ownership.
Once the laws are gone/things are deregulated, the corpos will likely take over. Nationalizing sounds good, but likely won’t end well without regulations, imo.
Their source for it potentially being illegal comes from the daily heil so I would ignore it
As I wrote kn the other post, the daily mail is a shit rag that only publishes ragebait stuff.
Second, the authority in charge of recovery shipwrecked stuff that washes up later clarified that no, they are not going to be arrested.
People should stay away because the local authority needs to clear up, but if you take some and don’t impede operations it’s ok.
I have reported the post a) for misinformation b) for being from a source so unreliable Wikipedia has banned it c) from a source that is racist and supported the literal 20th century German Nazi party
I included your Guardian link as evidence of the misinformation
The upvote/downvote ratio is beyond recovery now so I encourage others to do the same.
