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We have no bananas?

By Gordon Smith, Christine, Hurt, Vic Fleischer, Fred Tung, Lisa Fairfax, David Zaring

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.

Full post as published by Conglomerate on August 27, 2008 (boomark / email).