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RStar
05-30-2008, 10:43 PM
And now I'm reading that in possibly as soon as five years -- maybe as long as 30 -- there will be no bananas left. Wiped out. Finished. No longer on the Earth. Or at least no longer edible.

Johann Hari of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer wrote an interesting story recently about Panama Disease, a fungus that's been killing banana trees for about a century now. What's truly chilling is that the disease is getting stronger, and there is no cure.


No longer going bananas (http://www.walletpop.com/2008/05/29/no-longer-going-bananas-plague-may-wipe-out-entire-fruit/?icid=100214839x1203140686x1200114104)
JWBear
05-31-2008, 08:33 AM
Not to worry... Here's Snopes info (http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/bananas.asp).
Pirate Bill
05-31-2008, 10:08 AM
Come, Mr. Tally Mon, tally me banana
(Daylight come and he wan' go home)
Ghoulish Delight
05-31-2008, 10:44 AM
Not to worry... Here's Snopes info (http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/bananas.asp).
Yeah, this immediately brought to mind the rumors from several years ago that agave was going extinct.
RStar
05-31-2008, 10:56 AM
Yeah, this immediately brought to mind the rumors from several years ago that agave was going extinct.

Wowa, I could live with out Bananas, but not my precious nectar of the gods!
€uroMeinke
05-31-2008, 12:49 PM
Yes, we have no bananas
Not Afraid
05-31-2008, 12:52 PM
Get OUT of my brain!
LSPoorEeyorick
05-31-2008, 01:02 PM
Heh, we just stocked up. 15 of them.

(Though not out of fear.)
Not Afraid
05-31-2008, 01:06 PM
Banana hoarders.
sleepyjeff
05-31-2008, 03:30 PM
Reminds me of the Almond scare(lack of polinating bees) we had a few years ago.
Gemini Cricket
05-31-2008, 05:35 PM
I'm thinking there's no shortage of bananas round these parts...


:D
JWBear
05-31-2008, 06:29 PM
I'm thinking there's no shortage of bananas round these parts...


:D

Or nuts, for that matter... ;)