Banana News You Can Use

Dan Koeppel, banana evangelist (banangelist?), is giving us fair warning: enjoy your freakish, cloned fruit while you still can. He writes that the bananas we eat are the "fruit equivalent of a fast-food hamburger: efficient to produce, uniform in quality and universally affordable. But there’s a difference between a banana and a Big Mac: The banana is a living organism. It can get sick, and since bananas all come from the same gene pool, a virulent enough malady could wipe out the world’s commercial banana crop in a matter of years."

I always knew there was something strange about the fact that, ripeness factor aside, all bananas taste the same. Clones, people, clones.