Heh - you kidding? I keep wondering if the labs should be monitoring the government!
The biggest problem is the tendency to focus on ubiquitous clones rather than even a diversity of clones. If the market were used to a more diverse nanner, preventing disaster would be easier than trying to produce that boring yeller 9" long grocery nanner. Thusly, with a very small number of parents being widely cloned, the prospects of disaster is much higher. A greater diversity in nanners - even if cloned - would reduce the catastrophic effect of disease, IMHO. And of course replacing and infusing selectively bred refreshments to the gene-pool. So, our main problem isn't the disease, but the lack of genetic diversity thru agricultural practices that unfortunately are dictated by the preconceptions of a finicky market.
Be well,
Mike
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Originally Posted by imdocrob
I agree with Gabe the simple solution is to replace the Cav. with the Goldfinger, but when we look at the big pic. isn't the Goldfinger a genetically modified banana from Honduras? The world has changed a lot from the Idustrial age due to the wonders of Science. I feel that if these labs are govt. monitored are we not going to be better off? After all isn't just a matter of time before something will come along that the Goldfinger will not be able to be resistant against. The key is to be open-minded.
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