Originally Posted by Nicolas Naranja

Ultimately, the responsibility lies with the consumer. The average banana consumer wants a blemish free fruit, and they want it cheap. So, how do you get blemish free cheap fruit. You spray it constantly and use cheap labor. I have planes that fly over my house to spray fields across the street. If consumers would accept a tight husked sweet corn with salmon colored silks and cob, that plane would fly far fewer times over my house.