Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Today’s Video: Pineapple express

Do the ends justify the means? This is the main question being examined in the following thought-provoking video from the website of British daily The Guardian. The video claims that the low cost of pineapples for consumption in Europe belies the environmental damage and labor abuses in Costa Rica:

What do you think?
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3 comments:

  1. Señor José10:37 PM

    I would really be interested in showing this to my students, but there seems to be a sound production error about 5-minutes into the video with double voice overs.

    Is this just my system, or do you know where there's another clean edit?

    Thanks ~

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  2. Erwin C.1:36 AM

    Perhaps this link directly from The Guardian's site can be of some help -

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2010/oct/01/pineapple-trade-costa-rica

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  3. Señor José11:19 AM

    Thanks so much; that new link works fine.

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