Suzanne Vega - Luka

curiosity of an banana

Because of the two items above (man-made seedless fruit, herb thing), plus the plantation type of agriculture (lack of variety  genetic weakness) the super popular Cavendish bananas are constantly at risk. One aggressive bug or disease, and bananas would be extinct. In fact, the Cavendish banana we eat nowadays —which is at high risk of extinctionis a replacement for the virtually identical banana Gros Michel that went the way of the dodo in the 1960s.