Bananas due to be extinct

[Remcook]

www.guardian.co.uk/uk_new...12,00.html

Very sad...

[Sarah90]

"Yes, we have No Banana's"...?  

Me mum had both her legs amputated on Christmas Eve...long story cut short......She had been potassium-deficient for many years...She had incredible pain in her legs, and doctors kept trying to supplement her diet from many years ago with (amongst other things)...'BANANA'S'...!  
... at 89, all she cares about is that she can still read her books! ...she was relieved to get rid of the incredibly painful and what she saw were the irrelevant parts of her person...

Have to say, I haven't found a banana with flavour...for a long time! (Not to mention so many other fruits!)

What's happening to our food?

Sarah90

[greenleaf1]

What's happening to our food?

My personal opinion is that we're trying to mass produce too much and not taking care of the land.  We're using artificial fertilizers to push production and not taking time to rotate crops or let the land lie fallow for a season.  That may be taking its toll.

[sunspots4ever]

that in some cases, we've bred the seeds out of things 'cause they're inconvenient to comsumers, but then we depend upon being able to keep the plants alive by other means than the natural cycle.

 (Personally, I don't mind watermelon seeds!)

[spacecat27]

I thought it was just me, Sarah!
Yes, bananas- especially tomatos- and many other fruits and vegetables seem to be growing more and more tasteless.  It's often hard to find good organics unless you grow them yourself- and then you're at the mercy of the seedstock.  In addition to what greenleaf and sunspots point out, a contrubuting factor to the lack of flavor is that so much is picked and packed way too early in an effort to prolong shipping and shelf life.  Also, there are certainly 'unintentional' genetic modifications due to repeated inbreeding, that can't be good.

[Sarah90]

Spacecat:  EXACTLY!  (A fellow gave me some tomato seeds a while ago, and I , for the first - and unfortunately, the last - time...grew them myself !) They were not only inviolable  - by bugs, or anything else - but they ...were so sweet...I can even taste them whilst thinking about 'em.  :b :b :b :b :b :b