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Originally Posted by damaclese
concur with gab
how ever theirs a bigger question here
are we going to allow American and European Co to
dictate what we have available to us its dangerous the average American has access to less then 30 different types of plant based food stuffs that may at first seem like a lot of choices but if you think about it what and this is one of those paranoid sounding statements but what if something happens to are food supply like what is happening to the Banana corps dole and Chiquita they staked there inter fortunes on one plant and look at there predicament this should be an example as to a Coors of action that we should be coming up with this planet is struggling to support us Scientifically speaking Earth can realistically support 1.5 billion people comfortably with out stressing are ecosystems look at were we are now the fact that we are so crowded is why we are having thees kinds of outbreaks i know it sounds like if diverged from the original thread but perhaps this is just a way of taking it to its and this is my opinion obvious conclusion
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Wow, Damaclese, I didn't realize that you actually have
less variety in plant foods than we do down here in the (soi disant) "3rd World." We have over 100 different types of plant-based food here, but I guess a catastrophic crop failure in even one food, like the nanners, would seriously damage the food supply in N. America. Down here, it would hurt our economy but we'd still have nanners because of the local artisan growers and all of the different varieties they support. It would virtually eliminate the sale of nanners up North.
This might be a wakeup call for the Northern countries - they used to produce a lot more of their own food than they do now, which meant more variety and a more secure supply.
I'm sure science has a path through this, but like others have said I think it lies in finding the naturally resistant cultivars and species, not creating some mutant transgenic thing that they really know next to nothing about in terms of human and environmental impacts. So the future of the nanner really lies with us, the "hobby" growers and bananaphile collectionists.
I'm eating red bananas right now - these have been field tested down here against Sigs, and appear to also be Panama-resistant in primary lab trials. Maybe it will simply be a case of re-educating Northern consumers....
(lol! I think I've been long-winded enough!)
