{"id":852,"date":"2015-12-01T13:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T18:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210s20\/?p=17"},"modified":"2016-05-25T10:38:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T14:38:39","slug":"removing-the-peel-the-story-behind-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/2015\/12\/01\/removing-the-peel-the-story-behind-bananas\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing the Peel: The Story Behind Bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Pomerantz<\/p>\n<p>Bananas are the fourth-most popular agricultural product in the entire world, and\u00a0 they have become a staple in our diets. \u00a0We eat banana splits, we put sliced bananas in our cereals and salads, and we eat entire bananas by themselves.\u00a0Almost all of us have at least tasted a banana.\u00a0The widespread consumption of bananas confirms globalization because the bananas are distributed from Latin America to the United States, and to\u00a0rest of the world, very quickly. \u00a0The globalized banana trade also shows how mobility has increased&#8211;the bananas are easily transported via ship from one part of the world to another. \u00a0The banana trade also emphasizes nature-culture interactions and landscape, because fruit companies, like DOLE, have turned regular land into large-scale banana plantations. \u00a0While we consume bananas regularly, it is important to understand how these bananas end up in our hands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads.knightlab.com\/storymapjs\/0bc9e0072d23b7656f018fc1ea627dd3\/consumption-storymap\/index.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Pomerantz<br \/>\nBananas are the fourth-most popular agricultural product in the entire world, and\u00a0 they have become a staple in our diets. \u00a0We eat banana splits, we put sliced bananas in our cereals and salads, and we eat entire bananas by themsel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32861,29790,31563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumption-storymap","category-fall-2015","category-section-2","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}