Old people say you can't get bananas like you used to and they are right, the Gros Michel breed they used to eat is completely extinct
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There are very smart and well paid people whose job is to make sure you don't notice when production jumps countries, regions, continents
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The contingencies they're putting in place for if/when the honeybee dies out, if the blight that exiled rubber from the New World hits Asia
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If we have to quarantine another continent bc intensive factory farming creates another prion outbreak
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What happens when California's orchards finally drain the state's groundwater completely dry
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"Avocados from Mexico!" made me chuckle bc it was such a banal attempt to put a positive spin on a peek behind the Matrix's curtain
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Chipotle et al have been quietly murmuring about maybe having to pull guac from the menu if US avocado production collapses
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But doing it in such a way that people don't like freak out
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I just know that every new fact I learn abt this stuff makes me simultaneously grateful and angry at the ppl keeping me comfortably unaware
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The CEO cabal member in Soylent Green who "saves the world" w his big idea, then kills himself - I feel ya man
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They should've tried to get Norman Borlaug to cameo in that role for the movie
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Dr. Borlaug's Nobel Prize should read "HE KICKED THE CAN WITH SUCH STRENGTH IT LANDED FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD THAN WE COULD HAVE HOPED"
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My fav commentary on Soylent Green is the SNL sketch they did back in the day previewing "SOYLENT GREEN 2"
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