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Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It'll Be Gone
The history of coffee gives us surprising insight into the future of the world's most popular banana. In 1950, most bananas were exported from Central America. Guatemala in particular was a key piece of a vast empire of banana plantations run by the American-owned United Fruit Company. United Fruit Company paid Guatemala’s government modest sums in exchange for land. With the land, United Fruit planted bananas and then did as it pleased. It exercised absolute control not only over what workers did but also over how and where they lived.
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I read this a number of times in the past 10 years leading up to the death of our favorite peelable fruit. It's actually quite sad that the pursuit of profits and perfection is also the cause if its ultimate demise. Oh well.