Saturday, January 17

B A N A N A S.

Worth reading:

The banana is dying. According to this article within the next few decades, bananas will be extinct from a "cancer" like illness called Panama Disease.

"Below the headlines about rocketing food prices and rocking governments, there lays a largely unnoticed fact: bananas are dying. The foodstuff, more heavily consumed even than rice or potatoes, has its own form of cancer. It is a fungus called Panama Disease, and it turns bananas brick-red and inedible.

There is no cure. They all die as it spreads, and it spreads quickly. Soon -- in five, 10 or 30 years -- the yellow creamy fruit as we know it will not exist. The story of how the banana rose and fell can be seen a strange parable about the corporations that increasingly dominate the world -- and where they are leading us."


The article makes some inserting points about how evil fruit corporations have brought this upon themselves through horrendous business practices.

That shit is B A N A N A S. Sorry... couldn't resist. (Fast forward to 2:34 if you live under a rock.)

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