Get some bananas QUICK!!

[TLfromAI]

http://www.msnbc.com/news/860774.asp?cp1=1

I don;t really like them that much anyway.

 

[TLfromAI]

Link

Sorry.

 

[Zim Hosein]

"but the banana hasn?t had sex in years and its days may be are numbered"

 

[SWScorch]

Ohh, thats so sad... I like bananas... quite tasty and high in potassium. Poor endangered bananas...

 

[LordJezo]

REEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTT

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: LordJezo
REEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTT

Doh, you beat me. I'll just copy and paste.

What? LOL... nonsense.

That's like saying Cows are going to go extinct because there are no more wild ones.

Are all the banana plants on the planet just going to suddenly wither and die?

No, I didn't think so.

Actually, in all seriousness... We should take the lack of biodiversity within any species very seriously. It is a grave mistake on the part of agriculturists...

They won't let the banana become extinct, though.. that's just rediculous. If some disease or other such threat started devastating banana crops, you can best be sure that they would have the best scientists they have working on a resistant strain.

I find it hard to believe that research isn't already being done. It seems crazy that every banana plantation in the world would use the same genus. If that is true, then the article is right.. we're headed for a major banana shortage.

 

[Smolek]

already covered

 

[spanky]

i will join the repost nazi's

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Smolek
already covered

Not really. The other thread was full of garbage.

Looks like this thread is going the same route, heh.

 

[TLfromAI]

Did a search for "bananas"...got nothing. Guess I should have used "banana's" as in the first post but I didn't think it was possesive. Oh well.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: TLfromAI
Did a search for "bananas"...got nothing. Guess I should have used "banana's" as in the first post but I didn't think it was possesive. Oh well.

It's not, but I won't say anything because my Grammar Nazi hat isn't on right now.
I think that article is BS. It brings up an interesting point in that we should be concerned about the lack of wild bananas, but... bananas are far and away the biggest selling items in grocery stores (notice how they're always at the front of the produce department?) and I wonder if this article isn't some type of attempt to muddle with the usually low price of bananas.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: TLfromAI
Did a search for "bananas"...got nothing. Guess I should have used "banana's" as in the first post but I didn't think it was possesive. Oh well.

It's not, but I won't say anything because my Grammar Nazi hat isn't on right now.
I think that article is BS. It brings up an interesting point in that we should be concerned about the lack of wild bananas, but... bananas are far and away the biggest selling items in grocery stores (notice how they're always at the front of the produce department?) and I wonder if this article isn't some type of attempt to muddle with the usually low price of bananas.

Actually, genetic biodiversity is a little understood, often overlooked part of the plant and animal kingdom.

It's not like all the banana plants in the world are just going to up and die. No, that's not what the article is talking about. It's saying that the specific strain of banana plant that most(if not all) banana plantations use.. has been the same for many, many years. This is very, very dangerous in nature's world of constant evolution. It's like the rest of the plant kingdom is still moving, but the banana plants are staying still. The genes of the banana plant are staying the same, but the genes of all the diseases, fungi and insects are. They will eventually adapt. Since the banana plant was not allowed to adapt along with them, they will be attacked.. and we could very easily see a world banana shortage.

The idea that the plant would be come extinct is pretty obsurd, though.

The same thing happened to America's Wheat crop sometime in the last century(don't really remember all the details). We used the same kind of wheat for many, many years.. and suddenly it was attacked - and wiped out - by some sort of fungus. As you can imagine, this was devastating to wheat farmers across the nation.

They feverishly started searching for answers - And they found it. A strain of wheat that was resistant to the fungi. Even more alarming was it's status, and where they found it. It was known to be endangered. It was found at the edge of a construction site.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: TLfromAI
Did a search for "bananas"...got nothing. Guess I should have used "banana's" as in the first post but I didn't think it was possesive. Oh well.

It's not, but I won't say anything because my Grammar Nazi hat isn't on right now.
I think that article is BS. It brings up an interesting point in that we should be concerned about the lack of wild bananas, but... bananas are far and away the biggest selling items in grocery stores (notice how they're always at the front of the produce department?) and I wonder if this article isn't some type of attempt to muddle with the usually low price of bananas.

Actually, genetic biodiversity is a little understood, often overlooked part of the plant and animal kingdom.

It's not like all the banana plants in the world are just going to up and die. No, that's not what the article is talking about. It's saying that the specific strain of banana plant that most(if not all) banana plantations use.. has been the same for many, many years. This is very, very dangerous in nature's world of constant evolution. It's like the rest of the plant kingdom is still moving, but the banana plants are staying still. The genes of the banana plant are staying the same, but the genes of all the diseases, fungi and insects are. They will eventually adapt. Since the banana plant was not allowed to adapt along with them, they will be attacked.. and we could very easily see a world banana shortage.

The idea that the plant would be come extinct is pretty obsurd, though.

The same thing happened to America's Wheat crop sometime in the last century(don't really remember all the details). We used the same kind of wheat for many, many years.. and suddenly it was attacked - and wiped out - by some sort of fungus. As you can imagine, this was devastating to wheat farmers across the nation.

They feverishly started searching for answers - And they found it. A strain of wheat that was resistant to the fungi. Even more alarming was it's status, and where they found it. It was known to be endangered. It was found at the edge of a construction site.

Damn hippies and their grass! Burn it all!!

Edit: Btw, The above is sarcasm, and on second reading, I realize that "grass" can be mistaken for marijuana. It isn't supposed to be. By grass I mean wildlife.

 

[sandorski]

I was surfing the net last night and saw a banana having sex, WTF are these guys talking about?

 

[Analog]

hail banannas.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

I never liked bananas anyway.

 

[Kerouactivist]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
I never liked bananas anyway.

 

[NesuD]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
"but the banana hasn?t had sex in years and its days may be are numbered"

Now i am almost positive that i saw a banana having sex somewhere on the web in the past year.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Actually this sort of thing is immensly more dangerous than Saddam, but once again the emphasis will be misplaced. No, I am not being sarcastic. It is entirely possible that a food we depend on could be wiped out in a few years due to this problem. If a significant portion of the food you have to eat disappears, then the Middle East and Saddam and oil problems will seem like the good old days.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

The world has more than enough food to feed itself. Don't believe the propaganda. It's just a matter of distributing it correctly that's the problem.