▲ | reedf1 3 days ago | |||||||
Yes exactly - and more broadly pretty much all food consumed globally is automatically selected by tolerance of storage + packaging + shipping. Many varietals and whole specimens have been lost to the annals of history because they cannot make it to a Walmart in North America from Mato Grosso in a scalable (and profitable) way. Bananas, for example, are practically a miracle fruit for scalable production and distribution. They are incredibly consistent - have resilient skins, have lots of structure that prevents damage from packing, come in easily managed bunches, and (if temperature controlled) the ripening process can begin on demand at point of delivery. | ||||||||
▲ | chii 3 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
And thus, this monoculture became susceptible to a single fungal plague that is killing the plantation! And a replacement species is not available. | ||||||||
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