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Fractallife
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Re: Apparently bananas are going to disappear soon because of a disease. [Re: koods]
#22618810 - 12/05/15 08:59 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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koods said: I have no experience with bananas either 
A likely story banana bread bastard
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topdog82
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Re: Apparently bananas are going to disappear soon because of a disease. [Re: Fractallife]
#22619018 - 12/05/15 09:41 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Fractallife said:
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koods said: I have no experience with bananas either 
A likely story banana bread bastard
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/20065199
do you eat 15 a day cause you are a raw vegan? Or a vegan?
Assuming I eat 3000 cals a day, thats about half from bananas
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Fractallife
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Re: Apparently bananas are going to disappear soon because of a disease. [Re: topdog82]
#22619120 - 12/05/15 10:04 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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No, I eat 15 bananas a day because there fucking delicious and one of the best foods to eat for someone who works out and runs every day.
In case your interested my daily intake is: 15 bananas 8 Greek yogurts 1.5 gallons of whole milk + 3 800+ calorie meals
I eat 5-6k calories a day...
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topdog82
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Re: Apparently bananas are going to disappear soon because of a disease. [Re: Fractallife]
#22619182 - 12/05/15 10:18 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Fractallife said: No, I eat 15 bananas a day because there fucking delicious and one of the best foods to eat for someone who works out and runs every day.
In case your interested my daily intake is: 15 bananas 8 Greek yogurts 1.5 gallons of whole milk + 3 800+ calorie meals
I eat 5-6k calories a day...
milk makes my stomach explode. But otherwise, thats solid. Get some good fats and you are good to go
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Re: Apparently bananas are going to disappear soon because of a disease. [Re: topdog82]
#22619339 - 12/05/15 11:05 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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the problem with bananas isn't just that they are clones or not resistant to these diseases, its how they are cloned. they dig deep down and break off the clone at the root from the mother plant which greatly compromises it and leaves it open to infection.
we need to create a new field of doctors...bananna doctors, that go in and heal all these hurt bananna plant roots, its our only chance for survival, also im sure there's a conspiracy somewhere to take out the bananna's to create global hunger as they are a pretty cheap and abundant food source which threatens the $5 footlong meals
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Re: Apparently bananas are going to disappear soon because of a disease. [Re: Patlal]
#22619732 - 12/06/15 01:40 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Patlal said: I keep reading this shit everywhere today.
Bananas are going extinct.
In the mid-1900s, the most popular banana in the world — a sweet, creamy variety called Gros Michel, grown in Latin America — all but disappeared from the planet. At the time, it was the only banana in the world that could be exported.
But a fungus, known as Panama Disease, which first appeared in Australia in the late 1800s, changed that after jumping continents.
The damage was so great and swift that, in a matter of only a few decades, the Gros Michel nearly became extinct.
Now, half a century later, a new strain of the disease is threatening the existence of the Cavendish — which replaced the Gros Michel and represents 99 per cent of the market — along with a number of varieties produced and eaten locally around the world.
And there is no known way to stop it, or even contain it.
That’s the troubling conclusion of a new study published in PLOS Pathogens, which confirmed that dying banana plants in various parts of the world are suffering from the same exact thing: Tropical Race 4, a more potent mutation of the much-feared Panama Disease.
Specifically, the researchers warn that the strain, which first began wrecking havoc in Southeast Asia some 50 years ago and has more recently spread to other parts of Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Australia, will eventually make its way to Latin America, where the vast majority of the world’s exported bananas are still grown.
At this point, they say, it’s not a question of whether Tropical Race 4 will infiltrate the mother ship of global banana production; it’s a matter of when.
The reason the original disease and its latest permutation are so threatening to bananas is largely a result of the way in which the fruit has been cultivated. While dozens of different varieties are grown around the world, often close to one another, commercially produced bananas are effectively clones of each other.
This helps companies like Dole and Chiquita control for consistency and produce massive amounts of bananas on the cheap without having to deal with imperfections — and is part of the reason why the fruit is so easy to find at supermarkets everywhere. But it also makes their bananas vulnerable to attacks from pests and disease.
The virtual extinction of the Gros Michel is an apt example, too. When the first strain of the Panama Disease appeared in Latin America, there was nothing to stop it.
“As whole plantations failed, United Fruit and others made the obvious choice: they picked up and moved somewhere else in Latin America,” Gwynn Guilford wrote last year.
“But the blight followed. After it wiped out plantations in Costa Rica, Panama disease followed United Fruit to Guatemala. And then to Nicaragua, then Colombia and then Ecuador. By 1960, 77 years after it had appeared, Panama disease had wiped the Gros Michel out of every export plantation on the face of the planet.”
The effect was felt all around the world. Certainly in the United States, where it inspired a song called “Yes, We Have No Bananas.”
The latest strain is likely to put the risks of monoculture on display once more. And while scientists might find or breed a better one in the meantime, we don’t have a formidable replacement that’s resistant to the new strain of Panama Disease.
Once it reaches Latin America, as it is expected to, it could be only a matter of decades before the most popular banana on the planet once again disappears.
Thoughts on the eventual great banana extinction?
Wow you wrote a whole thesis. I can not take the time to grade this.
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Re: Apparently bananas are going to disappear soon because of a disease. [Re: akira_akuma]
#22619734 - 12/06/15 01:42 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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akira_akuma said: Banana's suck anyway.
My dog needs bananas
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Re: Apparently bananas are going to disappear soon because of a disease. [Re: vandago]
#22619744 - 12/06/15 01:46 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Just because I already had the pic
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Re: Apparently bananas are going to disappear soon because of a disease. [Re: Astral Pain]
#22619793 - 12/06/15 02:16 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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it's the only food i feel comfortable eating while tripping
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Re: Apparently bananas are going to disappear soon because of a disease. [Re: Envix]
#22619822 - 12/06/15 02:48 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Bananas are nice. I use to eat alot back when I worked out.
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Patlal
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Re: Apparently bananas are going to disappear soon because of a disease. [Re: daz01] 1
#22620130 - 12/06/15 08:09 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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daz01 said: Bananas are nice. I use to eat alot back when I worked out.
Bananas are not nice. They are little shits.
The minute you buy them, you've entered in a time race contract with them. If you try to eat them as you buy them, they are green and nasty and if you wait 3 days they have let themselves die. Therefore if you buy them Monday, you have an appointment with them at Wednesday the latest.
It's black mail.
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Re: Apparently bananas are going to disappear soon because of a disease. [Re: Patlal]
#22620169 - 12/06/15 08:33 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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The best time to eat them is when they start turning brown.
Anyway, I'm sure they'll develop disease resistant bananas just like they have disease resistant tomatoes, etc.
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Re: Apparently bananas are going to disappear soon because of a disease. [Re: Envix]
#22620388 - 12/06/15 09:49 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Envix said: it's the only food i feel comfortable eating while tripping 
it's because of the phallic shape
you have teh gh3y
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Re: Apparently bananas are going to disappear soon because of a disease. [Re: Prisoner#1]
#22625550 - 12/07/15 12:25 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Pris is right envix.
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suttree
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Re: Apparently bananas are going to disappear soon because of a disease. [Re: vandago]
#22628477 - 12/08/15 01:45 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Baby food. I get the humor though. But it is so easily digestible. I do not know why you would want to eat anything. I never have. Strange to even think about it that I never have.
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