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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-17-09 05:58 PM
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6. If growers have any sense, they will start growing hybrids
The dangers of genetic uniformity...
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  -Bananas: A Parable for Our Times (soon will be extinct and here is why) Omaha Steve  Jan-17-09 05:16 PM   #0 
  - Something to "Muse" on  XemaSab   Jan-17-09 05:18 PM   #1 
  - Fortunately, other varieties have survived  Warpy   Jan-17-09 05:44 PM   #2 
  - If growers have any sense, they will start growing hybrids  Lydia Leftcoast   Jan-17-09 05:58 PM   #6 
  - The bananas most of us eat are seedless mutants that are propagated by  struggle4progress   Jan-17-09 07:39 PM   #14 
  - those little bananas  mopinko   Jan-17-09 07:03 PM   #12 
  - I grow four varieties  Mojorabbit   Jan-18-09 01:14 AM   #17 
  - I've bought the same. Farmer's Markets have them  truedelphi   Jan-18-09 11:44 AM   #19 
  - Interesting  underpants   Jan-17-09 05:50 PM   #3 
  - Let me add-this sounds like a stereotypical drug dealer  underpants   Jan-17-09 06:00 PM   #7 
  - The same thing could happen to apples also  Confusious   Jan-17-09 05:56 PM   #4 
  - Not being able to spell is understood around these parts! Welcome to DU! n/t  ColbertWatcher   Jan-17-09 06:32 PM   #10 
  - Not in such a bad shape as bananas  muriel_volestrangler   Jan-17-09 07:09 PM   #13 
  - Another excellent post by Omaha Steve. Really sad, but this is  Mike 03   Jan-17-09 05:58 PM   #5 
  - Sad and shocking.  ColbertWatcher   Jan-17-09 06:29 PM   #9 
  - They actually tried to outlaw our bananas here in France  reggie the dog   Jan-17-09 06:13 PM   #8 
  - We do the same dumbassery over here  charlie   Jan-17-09 08:00 PM   #15 
  - and I've been thinking of changing my user name, too. nt  bananas   Jan-17-09 06:45 PM   #11 
  - There's some very weird parallels between United Fruit and Central America, and Standard Oil and ME  riderinthestorm   Jan-17-09 08:07 PM   #16 
  - They should be nationalised as "eminent domain". That's all nationalisation is.  KCabotDullesMarxIII   Jan-18-09 04:44 PM   #21 
  - The idea behind all of the stories like this - down to GMOs & the Icelandic seed bank  Hannah Bell   Jan-18-09 01:28 AM   #18 
  - The human monoculture that Junior represents  formercia   Jan-18-09 02:14 PM   #20 
 

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