Will Bananas be Wiped Out By Disease?
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Bananas are delicious. They're a healthy snack, and go great with hot fudge and ice cream. But they're also a crucial part of a lot of peoples' diets, and for the past few years a fungal menace has been spreading and wiping out banana crops all over the world. And it may mean the end of the banana as we know it.
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THERE'S ALWAYS MONEY IN THE BANANA STAND!
+Brandon Hall Wait - YOU BURNED IT DOWN? THERE WAS 20 THOUSAND DOLLARS LINING THE WALLS AND YOU BURNED IT DOWN? HOW COULD I HAVE MADE IT MORE CLEAR? THERE'S ALWAYS MONEY IN THE BANANA STAND!
NO TOUCHING!
They are definitely worth saving. A peanut butter and banana sandwich wouldn't be the same without them! 🍌🍞
worth saving? bananas are the best-selling product in walmart! (I could not believe this too!)
nough said
+HajoBenzin1 I live in Australia and we don't have walmart but from what I have heard about it online I would have predicted the top selling thing was some kind of crack cocaine
I live in Germany and we also don't have walmart but the top selling product is beer (and cocaine) ;D
HajoBenzin1 I know, right? (I want to keep bananas cuz banana strawberry milkshakes).
I want a sweeter banana
It's sad I will never taste the sweet old bananas
I was eating a banana while watching this. It tasted scared. Poor little guy. Its in a better place now.
HOW DARE YOU CRAIG BENZINE PEEL THE BANANA THE WRONG WAY!?
+Edward Überfluss (edward-ueberfluss) I was just about the write the same thing.
+Robert Fletcher ;) ***Thumbs up***
Oh no, bananas are the best fruits when doing sports. I don't know what I will eat if they disapear :c . Science save us all!
I was really expecting Matt to slip on the banana
I live in the Caribbean and bananas are pretty common in any variety here. Even the Gros Michel
Bananas, bananas, they're sitting on my fridge...
Why not genetically modify the Gros Michel to make it immune to Panama disease and then reintroduce it to the market?
+jednoucelovy Because people think random mutations are safer than controlled ones.
I never thought I would identify so strongly with a seed
#NewPantsForBananas
Because genes....jeans....I'll see myself out.
+Kassuhday That's not even a good bad joke.
TheRecreator This is why I'm not a comedian.
I live in Bangalore and have a choice of half a dozen varieties each delicious. And NO Cavendish. in 1971 when I visited the Banana Nursery (not a major research station) in Peringamala in Kerala
I recall that they had a few hundred varieties. Even today we have more than 50 varieties grown commercially including dwarf Cavendish. If we are sensible there is a great future for bananas and plantains which hold a pride of place in Indian tradition from ancient times
Sooooo glad you didn't care how to peel your banana, I laughed when you said on wheezywaiter 'something like'; the internet says i should peel this from the other end but i cant tell the difference
Man, this was bananas.
...I'll see myself out.
Good to hear an update on this. I've been trying to find more info on the banana crisis since I read an article on it that was written in 2005. It said it was likely the cavendish would be extinct by 2015. Year after year I would look for any updates, but I was only able to find those same articles or ones referencing the same 10 year fact, but written much later.
Could they try to grow them indoors, like vertical farming?
+mmann66666 That's what I figured, but if it comes down to it it might be better than no bananas at all...I really hope vertical farming becomes easier and cheaper in the next couple decades. I think in the long run it's a better way of doing things.
There's like 3 types of bananas avaible in Paraguay, they're all seedless, sweet and delicious.
Why not start growing more Gros Michel bananas again?
+Frank McManus because they are STILL in danger. and Who wants the shitty seeds that are in that stupid banana anyway.
*****
afaik, they aren't resistant to the current fungus, either.
+ThoperSought right - but if we can engineer fungus resistant cavendish... couldn't we, just as easily, engineer a fungus resistant Gros Michel?
LoserProvocateur
_"couldn't we, just as easily, engineer a fungus resistant Gros Michel?"_
that's a really good question.
I have to say that I don't know the answer. based on what (relatively little) I know about genetic engineering, I'd say that it's _likely_ to be roughly similar if the fungus attacks both in the same way.
since the Cavendish was resistant to the fungus that took down the Gros Michel, it's possible that there's a bit of a difference.
this makes me wonder what the fungus is attacking, exactly, and why the Cavendish was resistant to the original form of the fungus.
Stunned that I never knew half of this. o.o
Isn't there any way to 100% seclude a portion of bananas from the outside world?
Continuity Craig! Blue undershirt clone was in the beginning of the video and brown undershirt clone in the end, tisk tisk tisk I would have thought you'd have better management of your clones by now.
you peeled the banana wrong :O:O:O
+Seameus no way, he peeled it right! It's you guys that are doing it wrong!
Dmitry Osoka You rebel!
Seameus banana stem-peelers shall prevail!
Dmitry Osoka Never!
+Seameus I thought everyone peeled their banana like that...
Future kids will be like: "What's a banana?" Scary 🍌
+TheJman0205 Yeah but bananas don't look like derpy little chickens so we will forget them just like the Gros Michel.
PBS graphics fucking TOP NOTCH
yeee
So if we have different types of bananas, (as apples have Fuji, Granny Smith, McIntosh, etc.) this disease will be less likely to destroy all bananas?
I grow my own bananas so....
(Not Cavendish another more tasty but less long lasting banana strain)
The Bananapocalypse is upon us
how is this related to persistence?
+Max Fux Bananas are clones, and clones are a way of genetics persisting over time. Its a bit of a stretch, but it works for us.
+The Good Stuff Amazing video dudes as always you guys are great. Answering your question, bananas are definatelly worth all the effort to be saved!
+Max Fux that fungus is VERY persistant, it wiped the most popular variety of bananas, and now it's going for the new popular variety, that is persistence.
+Max Fux
how is it not? this is an ongoing fight, now, that we lost once before.
+Taco Preacher that`s dedication too!
Funny enough, bananas came up in conversation today. I spat out some of the knowledge I learned from this episode. Thanks for making me seem smarter than I am!
In Mexico we have three popular babanas.
We call them "plátano" (Cavendish), "plátano macho" and a variation similar to the cavendish but with a much smaller sice, I just call them "mini-plátano"
Great show, but just a quick grievance: I have a 27" LCD, and the video quality just hurts my eyes. Please switch to fixed lens (or whatever the issue is, I'd put my money on a zoom lens) as soon as you can. When all the infographics are HD sharp as a razor blade, it is really painful.
Why not the Lacatan? I live in the Philippines, and the Lacatan is the most commonly-eaten banana here. There are also cooking bananas, called Saba bananas -- no good for eating plain, but it's great for frying up and eating that way.
That's just bananas.
An idea I had is to develop a broader variety of bananas, and then plant them in alternating rows, and in those rows banana varieties will be planted as variety #1,#2, #3 repeating in each row. Also, there would be 2 different types of rows, each having their own 3 varieties. the system would go like this: variety 123..., next row 456... If this worked, it should make an infection to a specific variety spread slower and soften the impact on the production of bananas.
The banana flavoring is a myth. It has to do with simplicity of flavor. The Gro Michel banana just happens to taste like simple banana flavoring.
I live in Bangalore and have a choice of half a dozen varieties each delicious. And NO Cavendish. in 1971 when I visited the Banana Nursery (not a major research station) in Peringamala in Kerala
I recall that they had a few hundred varieties. Even today we have more than 50 varieties grown commercially including dwarf Cavendish. If we are sensible there is a great future for bananas and plantains which hold a pride of place in Indian tradition from ancient times
I am allergic to all fruits with several snal seeds in the core, so almost everytime a breaktime during kidergarden and other day activities, when the other's got apples, I got a banana, so now they're my favorite fruit. And so this is scary for me to realize that I have to move on to oranges, but they're so juicy!!!!!! Noooo!!!!!!
Super Dwarf Cavendish homegrown, I'm tired of food being industrialized only to have mother nature put a stop to it.
This must've been a messy cleanup. Did you transport the alligator to the Good Stuff studio to take care of the dead Cavendish clone? Does the alligator even like bananas?
I'm in India and I've seen 3 types of bananas in the market including the Scavendish, so is our market safer in terms of exposure/volatility to disease?
Couldn't we preserve a few of them, so we can re-introduce them after an outbreak?
Maybe also time to start looking for ways to bring back the seeds? Do we still have enough seeded varieties? Would it be possible to do something crazy like grow two varieties (seeded and seedless) somewhat in parallel, so we have both?
why are they trying to save the Cavendish and not bring back the Gros Michel. It tasted better right?
Maybe a topic for a followup video?
I saw a recent post on facebook about why banana candys don't taste like banana. It reminded me of this video!
Here in Brazil we have several different bananas but I don't know if they would be good for the international market =/
PS: We have a banana that the smell resembles an apple :)
i remember my grandpa saying "this new bananas have no flavor" and reluctantly putting some on his and my cornflakes, now i get it.
Thanks for the infotainment!! These videos really are, ahem, the Good Stuff.
I am a high carb vegan. my morning and lunch includes up to 20 bananas. when my bananas aren't ripe I'll buy dates. dates are more expensive per calorie but taste better and just more pleasant to eat in general. if I couldn't get bananas I'd go for dates in the morning and potatoes and rice the wrest of the time for my staples.
how does the cloning of these fruits work exactly? just curious how they were able to clone fruits over 200 years ago.
I don't want to live without bananas.. I used to have a banana tree grove in my back yard, they grew tiny (yet tasty) bananas that I ate as a kid....I don't know what they are called but it takes like 3 of them to make up one Cavendish.
Good job on the thumbnail, it represents The Good Stuff quite well.
So excited for the marathon video, Craig's been teasing it for a while in his Wheezy vids :D
Hope you guys like plantains sprinkled with sugar.
Save the bananas! We need something to make inappropriate jokes in the school lunch room with!
We should just gene splice new clone of banana!
G'day,
Yay Team !
Um, am I the first Commenter to reference the classic British Comedy/Vaudeville Song,
*"Yes, We Have No Bannanas...; we have no bannanas, todaaay...!"* ?
Just(ifiably ?) sayin' .
;-p
Ciao !
Post Scriptum...
Politically-Speaking, a "Bunch of Bannanas" is what you get when pairs of superannuated Yuppies & Dinks (Double-Income No Kids) sell their Suburban McMansions & do the Sea-Change/Tree-Change thing...; and then, immediately after they build their new Retirement Dreamhouses, they form or join local Lobby-Groups devoted to preserving the existing "View" from their own personal Balconies, espousing a common basic policy of "BANNANA - NA !" ( *Build Absolutely Nothing, Not Anywhere - Not Anytime !"* ).
Does this phenomenon not also occurr in the Excited States of Norte AmeriKano ?
;-p
Ciao !
Thumps up for Ecuador!!!!! my banana republic.
if Panama disease is coming back in some areas, is that making bananas more expensive for the people in those areas who rely heavily on the nutrition bananas provide?
why won't we genetically modify Gross Michael, if it has better taste?
Why don't we have multiple kinds of bananas? Thatd be dope
This is so fascinating to me. I definitely hope bananas survive.
forget Cavendish, Latundan bananas is what's up!
forget Cavendish, Latundan bananas is what's up!
How many varieties of plantains are there, though?
please....don't die bananas...my mom makes a killer banana nut bread.
Love that last little shirt ripping pile driver section. Very nice! ;)
i'm so looking forward to that marathon episode!
thank you Craig for peeling the banana the right, human way.
The most informative video about the subject.
this is bananas!!!!.... must eat them all before they go
BLAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAH that ending was so amazing!!
I don't like bananas anyway ^^
my imaginary friend is a ghost banana, and yes... bananas are worth saving.
People that are against gmo will not like these facts.
I am very scared.
And someone has to warn freelee the banana girl
This is why I'm stockpiling bananas
Guys, that's how the midwest peels bananas.
I could not live without bananas. I love them
I MUST MAKE ALL THE BANANA BREAD I CAN. THIS WORLD DEPENDS ON IT!
The banana is important. They help some people live.
STOP OPENING BANANAS FROM THE WRONG END!
If you ever get a chance to try a red banana, try it! Soooooooo goood!!!
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What type is this at 5:32 ?
Shirt-tearing piledriver FTW!
I doubt all bananas of this kind will go extinct. I'm gonna keep growing them in my backyard in Florida, and I doubt the fungus will ever get here. If lots of people grew bannans locally, they probably would not go extinct.
They definitely still could, did you not hear that even storms or dust can spread it?
this is bananas!!!!.... must eat them all before they go
I do not eat any other banana, what will we do??
Is it true some bananas are trapezoidal?
This is in my top 2 edutainment shows.
I could live without them because I can't stand the taste of them but I know many people depend on them for food and a living.
+Samantha P This was my thought exactly. Can't stand them, wouldn't personally miss them. But while I personally despise them I wouldn't wish them away knowing the global repercussions for so many people.
these videos are so fucking good
I welcome our new banana friends
And what about banana phones?
The 1% gets the *good* bananas no doubt.
this video made me eat 2 bananas...
I hate banana flavored candy
No, I need my bananas!!!
this is actually interesting