Jul 08, 2009

"Bananas!*" -- Film Review Dole Food Co. filed a defamation lawsuit on Wednesday against a Swedish filmmaker it accuses of knowingly including "patent falsehoods" in a documentary about Nicaraguan banana workers who sued Dole for allegedly exposing them to pesticides on its Nicaraguan plantations. Dole said it repeatedly "implored" director Fredrik Gertten and producer Margarete Jangard to revise the film "Bananas!*" to show the bananeros' lawsuits against Dole were thrown out in April...More