The United Fruit Company has been defunct for almost a century by now.

I still recommend buying fair trade Bananas if you can afford it, but eating a banana helps poor people in third world countries more than eating an apple, which doesn't send a single cent to the third world.

And second, why does the OP consider eating bananas exploiting banana farmers, but eating apples is not exploiting apple farmers??

Edit: thanks for the downvotes you dumb fascists.

I actually grew up in a banana producing country. All the leftists shitting on our produce are enemies of the people. People in poor third world countries desperately need money and selling their produce is how they earn money.

Yes, buy fair trade, that actually gives a better price to those farmers. But even without fair trade, buying tropical products helps tropical farmers.