Banana Trees Will Get Extinct In A Few Years
Monday, June 2, 2008 14:45
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A fungus is eating away all of our bananas! Its not a joke, its a true fact that is known to the banana growing community for years now. The Panama Disease fungus converts the yellow-creamy bananas into a brick-red fruit that is inedible. And the worse part is that there is no cure for it. Scientists expect that within 10-30 years there will be no more bananas in the world.
Till this yellow fruit gets extinct you can enjoy new ways of pealing a banana like this guy in a Japanese TV show:
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Rebecca says:
June 21st, 2008 at 5:33 pm
It’s not that there aren’t going to be any more bananas, it’s that one “breed” of banana will be gone, and that “breed” just so happens to be be the one that is cultivated around the world for mass consumption.
There are many types of banana, sweet, sour, bitter, red, creamy, hard…people will just have to get used to eating different types.
You can thank Dole, Chiquita, and other huge companies for this problem. They’ve known about it for a long time. They were getting so much money though, that they didn’t change their practices. They kept right on effectively breeding the most susceptible banana.