So I was listening to Kai Ryssdal's interview with Peter Chapman, author of Bananas: How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World, when Chapman remarked casually, as if we all knew already, "it's a highly vulnerable crop and at the moment is suffering from
diseases which might soon -- within the next decade or so -- wipe it
out."
A world without bananas!?
As it turns out, I probably am the last person in the world to get the news. Websites on the Panama Disease are abundant. Bananas have a fascinating history, and clearly the most popular fruit in the Smith household. I will be so sad if they vanish ...
Thanks to loop_oh for the photo.
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1. Posted by Laura on August 27, 2008 @ 18:46 | Permalink
AHHH! What will Christian eat?! Bananas are a practically their own food group in his world.
How tragic! :( I hope they find out how to get rid of that disease.
2. Posted by Peter G. Klein on August 29, 2008 @ 8:39 | Permalink
Gordon, see also some bananarrific commentary here:
http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2008/08/20/el-pulpo/
I read the Chapman book -- very weak!
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