Bananas are now .65 cents a pound

[Roon]

when does that madness end?

[likesmountains 52]

1. I just heard a discussion on NPR about bananas. There is a fatal banana fungus going around

It infects the soil and there is no known cure or treatment for this. The speaker wrote a book about this history of banana companies and politics in Central and South America. He said the banana companies are going to have to go looking for new places with cheap land and cheap labor to start new banana plantations...think Africa.

[seemunkee]

3. I thought it was in Africa already

Considering it is such a cash crop that is going to cause a lot of hardship and many people.

[spindrifter]

2. After many months of .79 a pound bananas, they

rose to $.89 a pound in one of the most popular grocery stores in Seattle this week. We often go to a small market that has them for $.49 as a lure to the rest of their stuff.

[Chovexani]

4. Food prices are just bananas