Out of Context Podcast Quotes"They know that they're being exploited, and so they begin asking for their rights." - DAN KOEPPEL, There Will Be Bananas, Throughline #Throughline #ThereWillBeBananas #DanKoeppel
"It's the Teddy Roosevelt era." - DAN KOEPPEL, There Will Be Bananas, Throughline #Throughline #ThereWillBeBananas #TheodoreRoosevelt #HappyBirthdayTheodoreRoosevelt #DanKoeppel
bs2> In your recent article for #TheScientist, you start off by saying that the bananas that most Americans know from the supermarket “may be on the brink of disaster.” Why?
> .. all of our #bananas are grown and imported by #Chiquita or #Dole, these two companies have had their heads in the sand about it. They believe that they can come up with some chemical way to fight the disease, which I don’t believe will happen.
https://www.foodrepublic.com/2011/07/26/the-banana-problem/
#Bananas #Monoculture #DanKoeppel
> .. all of our #bananas are grown and imported by #Chiquita or #Dole, these two companies have had their heads in the sand about it. They believe that they can come up with some chemical way to fight the disease, which I don’t believe will happen.
https://www.foodrepublic.com/2011/07/26/the-banana-problem/
#Bananas #Monoculture #DanKoeppel
The Banana Problem - Food Republic
Dan Koeppel, author of Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World (2008), recently published a story in The Scientist magazine claiming that the type of banana that most Americans eat may be doomed. He speaks to Food Republic about supermarkets, banana cloning and the inevitable downfall of the cheapest fruit.