Editing Pineapple (section)

===Ethical and environmental concerns===
Like most [[Intensive farming|modern fruit production]], pineapple plantations are highly industrialized operations. In Costa Rica particularly, the pineapple industry uses large amounts of insecticides to protect the crop, which have caused health problems in many workers. These workers often receive little compensation, and are mostly poor migrants, often [[Nicaraguan]]. Workers' wages also decrease every time prices are lowered overseas. In 2016, the government declared that it would be trying to improve the situation, with the help of various other groups.<ref>{{cite news |title=Costa Rica's Pineapple Industry Promises to Become More Responsible |url=https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2016/costa-ricas-pineapple-industry-promises-become-more-responsible/27676 |access-date=29 November 2021 |date=10 March 2016}}</ref>

Historically, tropical fruit agriculture, such as for pineapples, has been concentrated in so-called "[[banana republics]]".<ref>{{cite book |last=Chapman |first=Peter |title=Jungle capitalists : a story of globalisation, greed and revolution |publisher=Canongate |location=Edinburgh New York |year=2009 |page=6 |isbn=978-1847676863 }}</ref><ref>[https://nytimes.com/2008/03/02/books/review/Kurtz-Phelan-t.html Big Fruit] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313044710/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/books/review/Kurtz-Phelan-t.html |date=2017-03-13 }}, ''NY Times''</ref>

====Illegal drug trade====
Export pineapples from Costa Rica to Europe are often used as a cover for [[illegal drug trade|narcotrafficking]], and containers are impounded routinely in both locations.<ref>{{cite news |title=Costa Rica seizes two tons of cocaine hidden with pineapples |url=https://ticotimes.net/2021/02/05/costa-rica-seizes-two-tons-of-cocaine-hidden-with-pineapples |access-date=17 April 2021 |work=Tico Times |agency=AFP |date=5 February 2021}}</ref>

====Expansion into protected areas====
In Costa Rica, pineapple cultivation has expanded into the [[Maquenque National Wildlife Refuge|Maquenque]], {{lang|es|[[Border Corridor Wildlife Refuge|Corredor Fronterizo]]}}, [[Barra del Colorado Wildlife Refuge|Barra del Colorado]] and [[Caño Negro Wildlife Refuge|Caño Negro]] wildlife refuges, all located in the north of the country. As those are protected areas and not national parks, limited and restricted sustainable activities are allowed, however pineapple plantations are industrial operations and many of these do not have the proper license to operate in the protected areas, or were started before either the designation of the area, recent regulations or the creation of the environmental regulatory agency (Setena) in 1996. The agency has registers for around {{convert|358.5|ha|sqmi|abbr=on}} of pineapple plantations operating within protected areas, but satellite imagery from 2018 reports around {{convert|1659|ha|sqmi|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rodríguez |first1=Sebastián |title=Piñas en la mira: el monocultivo que se coló dentro de las áreas protegidas de Costa Rica |url=http://www.elpais.cr/2021/04/16/pinas-en-la-mira-el-monocultivo-que-se-colo-dentro-de-las-areas-protegidas-de-costa-rica/ |access-date=17 April 2021 |work=El País<!--[[El País]] is a different newspaper--> |location=Costa Rica |date=16 April 2021 |language=es}}</ref>