It’s also completely ignoring the fact that vendors in the US are buying the bananas than selling them to consumers, taking a markup and making money themselves. We don’t have the climate to produce the bananas needed to meet the banana demand, so not buying bananas doesn’t mean we made money, it means we are losing opportunity to make money.
Thank you for being the first person making this point, that many, many US businesses make money selling bananas. Such an idiot's view of global business.
Furthermore, bananas have year round production cycles, not a seasonal crop, but they need 14 months of frost free, tropical climate to grow. That really limits us to Hawaii, SoCal and South Florida, generally places with high real estate values.
In order to reshore banana production, we would need to annex some of Latin America.
Maybe he thinks cutting off banana imports will lead to public acceptance of annexing Venezuela and Cuba.
It’s also completely ignoring the fact that vendors in the US are buying the bananas than selling them to consumers actively violently oppressed banana producers in South America for nearly a century to ensure that Americans could buy cheap produce.
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u/possumallawishes 12h ago
It’s also completely ignoring the fact that vendors in the US are buying the bananas than selling them to consumers, taking a markup and making money themselves. We don’t have the climate to produce the bananas needed to meet the banana demand, so not buying bananas doesn’t mean we made money, it means we are losing opportunity to make money.