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> This is not controversial. A different article could have talked about the same issue but presented a different effect which is that nearly the entire banana
by jdmichal 11y ago
> This is not controversial. A different article could have talked about the same issue but presented a different effect which is that nearly the entire banana crop in the world is at risk of being wiped out because we've pretty much eliminated any variety in order to get the sweetest and best looking bananas.
First, this has already happened once.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_disease
Second, this is an argument against monoculture, not selective breeding. If I have 5 types of selectively bred bananas, I have fixed the monoculture problem but not your claimed selective breeding problems.