Bananas are totally human food. They are completely a product of domestication and specialized breeding/cloning, and they don't grow in the wild. If a non-human primate is eating a banana, it's because a human gifted it to him.
Too bad they're going extinct (again), because you can only clone so long and so hard before genetic degradation sets in.
Virgin genetic degradation isn't getting a chance to wipe-out banana cultivars.
Chad Fusarium fungus that gradually get better at proliferating in genetically-identical plants do the ''extincting'' job much quicker.
Fusarium fungus lives everywhere and is mostly harmless to healthy plants.
It has too many hosts, and can survive in soil too long, to be reasonably eliminated to grow again the previous cultivar on that same soil where fusarium got expert at killing it.
The Gros Michel cultivar, the one grown everywhere decades ago, was almost entirely wiped-out by such a strain of fusarium.
The killer fusarium strain got propagated around the world by contaminated equipment, soil accidentally transported, and already-infected young plants that weren't showing visible symptoms sold to other farms.
Since then, new fusarium strains evolved into all major banana cultivars, but better agricultural practice make their spread much slower.
There are several wild banana species. We don't commonly eat them ( some people do, usually by cooking them because they are hard ).
Wild bananas are smaller, harder, don't taiste very good, and are full of seeds.
But they can be used to make new crossings for seedless banana cultivars that won't be vulnerable to current ''cultivar-killer fusarium'' strains... untill another such strain(s) develops in some clonal population(s) and spreads the same way the other did.
Some labs are also working on genetically-engeering existing cultivars to change them enough for the narrow-focussed fusarium strain to be harmless to the modified version... but doing so usually changes the delicate balance which made that cultivar taiste good.
And new fusarium strains will evolve in this new hypothetical clone too shall it be mass-grown.
TL:DR : Other diseases eliminate banana cultivars long before genetic mutations do.
it's not "genetic degradation". the cavendish banana is cloned all from the same genetic line, meaning there is no "genetic degradation". the problem is fungi, bacteria, viruses, and other things that negatively affect the sustainability of the cavendish banana.
because the bananas are clones of the same line, there's no opportunity for natural selection, no mutations that might provide resistance, nothing to be carried from the heartier forefathers to the offspring. it's not genetic degradation... it's genetic obsolescence. if they were still using just selective breeding, this wouldn't be an issue.
I don't know anything about this mayor. I posted this because it's one of the most retarded attempts at cancelling I've ever seen, and it gave us that absolute meme of a quote.
Bananas are a sign of white supremacy.....I think this'll go over like trying to make watermelon and fried chicken racist when most Black people will go 'bitch that shit taste good, you can call me a nigger as much as you like if you give me those each time you say it!'
At least the food bans in certain religions make sense for the time they were made because they didn't have the knowledge to properly utilise it without risks, applying racism to food is just retarded.
It’s just about power, though, right? No one thinks black people don’t eat fried chicken or watermelon. Blacks and leftists just believe - correctly - that they can extract political and cultural capital from attacking white people who say obviously true things.
I'd play into it, I'd go 'because of these spokespeople on behalf of minorities, we have decided to ban places that serve watermelon and fried chicken together to stop further offence'
Then I'd wait an hour before I get the message 'dear mayor, we killed all the leftists, please reverse that ban, black people'
Handing a banana to a black person was a racist thing back in the day because it was a gesture that implied they were a monkey.
This is completely different from accepting a fruit basket that includes bananas. if anything, if the bananas were some kind of racist gesture, it would be the gift giver calling the mayor a monkey.
Snyder continued to apologize
the mayor deserves the struggle session at this point. stop apologizing!
Onnesha Williams, co-founder of Black Families of Hutto, asked the mayor at the Sept. 7 meeting to resign. She said the mayor allowing the fruit stand to stay on the dais during the previous council meeting was a form of harassment.
"It's the same as going to work and having a noose hanging at your desk," she said.
Should have told Oh-nee-sha to kick rocks. She's clearly delusional and I mean that in the most literal sense possible.
The incident happened during a Hutto City Council meeting on Aug. 31. Calderone was talking to the council during the citizen comments portion of the meeting when she pulled the fruit stand out of a bag.
"It's a symbol," she said about the bananas and the monkey on the stand. "I'm one of the many monkeys who keep trying to climb the ladder for bananas regardless of how many times other monkeys try to pull me down and beat me up," she said. "To me the bananas represent what I expect and what I'm willing to fight for: low taxes, keeping a roof over our head and food on the table."
The WHITE resident who presented the gift identified HERSELF as the monkey yet the retards on the council are clamoring for the spot.
Snyder also said the City Council has asked the city's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission to recommend who can provide diversity training in a session that would not only be for the council but would be open to the public.
Archive is broken for me, but this reminds me of the usual: "Orcs are ugly, disgusting, smelly and low IQ? MY GOD, SO RACIST AGAINST BLACKS!" from the radical left.
I think I can safely say that no one on the right has ever thought of black people when seeing a banana.
Come mista tally man, tally me banana
Great song and great Beetlejuice scene
Bananas are totally human food. They are completely a product of domestication and specialized breeding/cloning, and they don't grow in the wild. If a non-human primate is eating a banana, it's because a human gifted it to him.
Too bad they're going extinct (again), because you can only clone so long and so hard before genetic degradation sets in.
Virgin genetic degradation isn't getting a chance to wipe-out banana cultivars.
Chad Fusarium fungus that gradually get better at proliferating in genetically-identical plants do the ''extincting'' job much quicker.
Fusarium fungus lives everywhere and is mostly harmless to healthy plants.
It has too many hosts, and can survive in soil too long, to be reasonably eliminated to grow again the previous cultivar on that same soil where fusarium got expert at killing it.
The Gros Michel cultivar, the one grown everywhere decades ago, was almost entirely wiped-out by such a strain of fusarium.
The killer fusarium strain got propagated around the world by contaminated equipment, soil accidentally transported, and already-infected young plants that weren't showing visible symptoms sold to other farms.
Since then, new fusarium strains evolved into all major banana cultivars, but better agricultural practice make their spread much slower.
There are several wild banana species. We don't commonly eat them ( some people do, usually by cooking them because they are hard ).
Wild bananas are smaller, harder, don't taiste very good, and are full of seeds.
But they can be used to make new crossings for seedless banana cultivars that won't be vulnerable to current ''cultivar-killer fusarium'' strains... untill another such strain(s) develops in some clonal population(s) and spreads the same way the other did.
Some labs are also working on genetically-engeering existing cultivars to change them enough for the narrow-focussed fusarium strain to be harmless to the modified version... but doing so usually changes the delicate balance which made that cultivar taiste good.
And new fusarium strains will evolve in this new hypothetical clone too shall it be mass-grown.
TL:DR : Other diseases eliminate banana cultivars long before genetic mutations do.
I’m going to remember much of this information while I forget the names of my nieces and nephews.
Eehh, you gotta pick and choose. Some information has more value than others.
it's not "genetic degradation". the cavendish banana is cloned all from the same genetic line, meaning there is no "genetic degradation". the problem is fungi, bacteria, viruses, and other things that negatively affect the sustainability of the cavendish banana.
because the bananas are clones of the same line, there's no opportunity for natural selection, no mutations that might provide resistance, nothing to be carried from the heartier forefathers to the offspring. it's not genetic degradation... it's genetic obsolescence. if they were still using just selective breeding, this wouldn't be an issue.
I don't know anything about this mayor. I posted this because it's one of the most retarded attempts at cancelling I've ever seen, and it gave us that absolute meme of a quote.
Monkeys + bananas = black kryptonite
Rule 0: NEVER APOLOGIZE TO THE MOB. It never works, and all it does is inspire them to keep coming after you.
“If you don’t want the bananas, then I’ll eat them.” End of story.
this. he should have pulled a banana and just started eating it right in front of them.
Black Fragility is increasing :
2020- “MonkeyPox must be renamed MPox - because black people are linked to monkeys”
2023 - Bananas are cancelled because bananas remind me of monkeys.
Meanwhile blacks https://twitter.com/JCFights/status/1708237247974084983
Bananas are a sign of white supremacy.....I think this'll go over like trying to make watermelon and fried chicken racist when most Black people will go 'bitch that shit taste good, you can call me a nigger as much as you like if you give me those each time you say it!'
At least the food bans in certain religions make sense for the time they were made because they didn't have the knowledge to properly utilise it without risks, applying racism to food is just retarded.
It’s just about power, though, right? No one thinks black people don’t eat fried chicken or watermelon. Blacks and leftists just believe - correctly - that they can extract political and cultural capital from attacking white people who say obviously true things.
I'd play into it, I'd go 'because of these spokespeople on behalf of minorities, we have decided to ban places that serve watermelon and fried chicken together to stop further offence'
Then I'd wait an hour before I get the message 'dear mayor, we killed all the leftists, please reverse that ban, black people'
how many times at day do you think about the banana?
You had me thinking "How is the anime Fruits Basket racist?"
Just added bananas to my shopping list.
Can confirm, allergic to bananas, am huge racist.
Same here. Wait, why are we talking about bananas? 🤔
Handing a banana to a black person was a racist thing back in the day because it was a gesture that implied they were a monkey.
This is completely different from accepting a fruit basket that includes bananas. if anything, if the bananas were some kind of racist gesture, it would be the gift giver calling the mayor a monkey.
the mayor deserves the struggle session at this point. stop apologizing!
That explains why bananas are the most eaten fruit in the world.
Clown World.
I already eat one a day... I guess I can get it up to two but any more is probably too much potassium, and toilet time.
It’s actually insane how much potassium we need. The vast majority of people are potassium deficient. And also generally deficient.
chatgpt says 3500mg and a banana has around 400 depending on the size
Should have told Oh-nee-sha to kick rocks. She's clearly delusional and I mean that in the most literal sense possible.
The WHITE resident who presented the gift identified HERSELF as the monkey yet the retards on the council are clamoring for the spot.
There we go, mission accomplished.
Archive is broken for me, but this reminds me of the usual: "Orcs are ugly, disgusting, smelly and low IQ? MY GOD, SO RACIST AGAINST BLACKS!" from the radical left.
I think I can safely say that no one on the right has ever thought of black people when seeing a banana.
oooo Gabriel Iglesias is in so much trouble!!
Sounds like satire but I isn’t. The mayor should just tell these people to shut up. I wonder about the mindset of people who find this offensive
It took a week to be offensive. At the time on the 31st it was fine. It was a problem on the 7th at the next meeting.
Ah, banana oil
https://youtu.be/gmVv3plL2No