Can This Fruit Be Saved? | Popular Science

We eat only one variety of banana and that is what is produced. Bananas as we know them will soon be a thing of the past.

There was also a huge article in Rolling Stone but it was over a year ago and I cannot find it now.

It would be weird for our grandkids to not know what a banana tastes like.

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no, No, NO - That is the scariest thought! I hope the scientist are able to keep them going. I cannot imagine not having bananas!

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Mary

We eat at least 3 lbs of bananas in my house every week. Most weeks I have to go to the grocery 2x to pick up bananas.

I can not imagine not having bananas

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There was a scientist on 60 Minutes the other night saying that just over 100 years ago, there were over 7000 varieties of apples grown in the US. Today, there are fewer than 150 varieties -- the rest are extinct. He's saving all kinds of fruit and vegetable seeds in a huge bunker in the Arctic in anticipation of huge famine/drought/destruction. It's pretty scary to think was the future holds for our kids.

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It is scary! We eat maybe a couple pounds of bananas a month...tops and that's if I make bread. None of us like bananas.

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Snopes indicates that this is not quite accurate.

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Banana Extinction

yes, we have no bananas....

anyone remember that song? I say it to my kids sometimes and they look at me like I'm nuts.

Well it may not be in ten years however this is not the only article written on this and I believe it. And the Snopes page was addressing bananas in the whole world that grow. The Cavendish is the ONLY banana produced worldwide and it's the only one we eat. So while other varieties still exist it would take years and years for any of them to be produced at the level it requires to keep us satisfied. Think of it this way: if all of a sudden we started eating a different kind of meat or fruit because of something that happened, there would not be enough of that animal or those trees. So maybe the idea that "all bananas will be extinct in ten years" is false but bananas as we know them and the availability of eating bananas is in desperate danger.

Whenever you have something that is genetically "perfect" it dies. It's just a matter of time and I predict my great grandchildren will know bananas and polar bears the way we know cowboys and Indians.

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If you really want to scare yourself and see what we have done to the natural food growing process...read "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle"

What is happening to the banana is also happening to apples, peaches, and just about every other fruit and vegetable out there that is considered part of mass consumption. There used to be hundreds of different types of potatoes....now there are only a few!

I am only about 1/8th of the way through that book and I have learned a ton about our food supply! Do you know that companies "own" certain types of seeds and that if you are a farmer that is down wind from where they plant and one of their seeds ends up in your field and produces a plant, they can sue you??? Do you know that most of the seeds sold today are genetically modified to help lower the chance of unproductive fruit?

Basically, what is being done to our food supply is the same thing that has been done to some ethnic or religious groups when a "cleansing" is created. This is why so many of our fruits and vegetables that we buy at the store are bland compared to those that our grandparents, etc raised in their garden years ago. More so, our grandchildren will have food that is even more bland than us...or it will have to have artificial ingredients to add taste!

well bananas in jamaica and probably other countries are plentiful and its true what one poster said about the food that we eat here in the usa is bland.

the fresh fruits and veggies, right off the tree and straight out of the ground taste SO much better than what they call fresh food in the usa