HISTORY
OF THE END OF THE WORLD
EATING
BANANAS IN WINTER
The
“Boss”, the manager of “the Shop”, looks and walks by like a
Golden Moonwalker, carrying enormous shopping-bags, filled with
Easter-stuff. It is all meant to be served on april 1 during an
Easter Breakfast for the regular guests.
One
of tbe benefits of female managers is, that they always want to care
and nourish these regulars by food and festivities. Also meant for
teambuilding (and indoctrination) and pleasing.
We
are addicted to food and especially all kinds of fast-food products.
If you turn fastfood and take-away into a way of life, you are,
unknowingly, part of a global global food-system. With excesses as
eating-contests in Japan, USA and Korea. Food is transported
world-wide and this globalisation needs a giant infrastructure and
ever-growing harbours. Big ships too.
A
coolingship transporting bananas, millions of them, lands its cargo
in Rotterdam, giant cranes unload the containers, who are made ready
for further transport through Europe; by rail, truck, boat, and even
by airplane And we are all eating the same bananas from Denmark to
France and Germany.
This
is a showcase of corporate power and management.
Problem
is, that these food-moguls only can think big and linear. One by one
is two and the earthly processes are strictly regulated. F.i. there
is only one type of banana for sale. Other types, and there are many,
are neglected or ignored. A colossal banana-monolith. Science
proclaims more diversity, but the global banana-show goes. It is to
big to change and the mono-culture of banana's is vulnerable for
diseases. If this happens, the Tower of Babel collapse.
No
more bananas in winter.
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