One might expect more from the nation’s largest grower of fruits and vegetables than to have foreign (Nicaraguan) workers use a pesticide known to sterilize workers, but then one would be deeply disappointed in Dole. The take-away notion here is that U.S. companies can indeed be punished for being generally moral-free in other countries, but the financial penalty is not steep all things considered:

Overall, the workers were awarded $5.7 million from jurors who found that the Westlake Village-based corporation acted fraudulently when it sent workers into its Nicaraguan fields without warning them that the pesticide had sterilized California plant workers.

The pineapple. It is not so sweet.