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Your argument is still valid, but I don't think 50 Billion tons are produced every year. That would be 50/8 = ~6 tons of bananas per person per year. If one ba

Your argument is still valid, but I don't think 50 Billion tons are produced every year. That would be 50/8 = ~6 tons of bananas per person per year. If one banana weighs 120 grammes [1], then 6 tons / 120 grammes = 5000 bananas per year. I'm not sure that the average person eats 13 bananas a day. --- [1]: https://whatthingsweigh.com/how-much-does-a-banana-weigh/ https://whatthingsweigh.com/how-much-does-a-banana-weigh/

missedthecue 6y ago
They don't. It's just that I eat 425,000 bananas a day so it pushes up the average.
- mbg721 6y ago
  Any negative side-effects from the chronic radiation exposure? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
  - akiselev 6y ago
    Potassium toxicity would be a problem long before the radiation. You'd need to eat 400 bananas a day to eventually die from it which would be at most a ~50 microSievert/day exposure. Occupational exposure limits are in the range of 50 milliSieverts in one year or 100 mS cumulative total over five years. Four thousand bananas in one day would probably kill an adult due to potassium but only expose them to ~20 mS if they ate 4k bananas a day for a year. > High, acute potassium intakes have been associated with symptoms related to neuromuscular dysfunction, including weakness, paralysis, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. These symptoms, however, do not consistently develop prior to life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK545424/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK545424/ That said, radioactive isotopes that make it into the digestive tract are far more dangerous than external exposure (and then again, the potassium isotopes aren't accumulated so it might be a wash)
- ab_testing 6y ago
  Do you by any chance work at Amazon ?
ineedasername 6y ago
Yes, I can't edit it though. Unfortunately, I got my 50B number from another UN report (http://www.fao.org/economic/est/est-commodities/bananas/bananafacts/en/ http://www.fao.org/economic/est/est-commodities/bananas/bana...) which in retrospect is maybe not the best source when the issue at hand is a different inaccurate UN report. Other sources place it somewhere around 80 to 150 million tons.
thamer 6y ago
About 117M tons a year: https://www.statista.com/statistics/716037/global-banana-market-volume/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/716037/global-banana-mar... So about 130 bananas a year per person? That seems like a lot: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=117+million+metric+tons+divided+by+weight+of+a+banana+divided+by+population+of+the+world https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=117+million+metric+ton...

missedthecue 6y ago

They don't. It's just that I eat 425,000 bananas a day so it pushes up the average.

mbg721 6y ago
Any negative side-effects from the chronic radiation exposure? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
- akiselev 6y ago
  Potassium toxicity would be a problem long before the radiation. You'd need to eat 400 bananas a day to eventually die from it which would be at most a ~50 microSievert/day exposure. Occupational exposure limits are in the range of 50 milliSieverts in one year or 100 mS cumulative total over five years. Four thousand bananas in one day would probably kill an adult due to potassium but only expose them to ~20 mS if they ate 4k bananas a day for a year. > High, acute potassium intakes have been associated with symptoms related to neuromuscular dysfunction, including weakness, paralysis, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. These symptoms, however, do not consistently develop prior to life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK545424/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK545424/ That said, radioactive isotopes that make it into the digestive tract are far more dangerous than external exposure (and then again, the potassium isotopes aren't accumulated so it might be a wash)
ab_testing 6y ago
Do you by any chance work at Amazon ?

ineedasername 6y ago

Yes, I can't edit it though. Unfortunately, I got my 50B number from another UN report (http://www.fao.org/economic/est/est-commodities/bananas/bananafacts/en/ http://www.fao.org/economic/est/est-commodities/bananas/bana...) which in retrospect is maybe not the best source when the issue at hand is a different inaccurate UN report. Other sources place it somewhere around 80 to 150 million tons.

thamer 6y ago

About 117M tons a year: https://www.statista.com/statistics/716037/global-banana-market-volume/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/716037/global-banana-mar... So about 130 bananas a year per person? That seems like a lot: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=117+million+metric+tons+divided+by+weight+of+a+banana+divided+by+population+of+the+world https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=117+million+metric+ton...