Research on Bananas

So far in my research on bananas, I have tried to concentrate on the workers rights aspect of my fruit. I find it difficult to locate articles on the subject, since the workers are in third-world countries in South America and Asia. The hardest part about the research process, in my case, is weeding out the information that is relevant to my topic as I am taking a look at articles that are not completely relevant, or are perhaps all-inclusive, and only mention workers rights in one paragraph. The most interesting thing I have found out about bananas is that they are bombarded with a slew of chemicals. There are chemicals for properly ripening them, for keeping pests away, and for making them immune to the diseases in which they are prone. I am including this information into my essay with regard to workers rights because many of these chemicals are dangerous to workers, and they are not being given proper protection when using them. I found out how many chemicals are used on bananas by reading the articles on workers rights. The articles focused on a particular chemical and how it was bad for workers, and I happen to stumble upon the information regarding the purpose of the chemical. I would say that I have discovered most of my information by stumbling across it while reading articles that seemed not to fit with my topic well. This is my biggest roadblock, having to read articles that seem like they wouldn’t really fit my topic, because they are the ones that happen to have information I need. It is frustrating that banana-worker’s rights are only mentioned in about a paragraph of most of the articles I encounter, so I have to sift through all of the uselessness in order to get an article’s worth of information out of ten different articles. So far, though, I have been able to gather enough information to write an essay, and I hope that I am able to continue finding articles that are remotely relevant to my topic.