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Peak Bananas? | 27 comments (27 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Great post, afew! My head was exploding through the whole thing. Awhile back, I wrote about the fusarium oxysporum plan:

http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2005/8/3/12463/49821

http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2005/8/4/3105/97190

and have been meaning to do an update. During my move I found a brief mention that some folks in Britain are also on board with this, despite the EU having banned the whole idea.

The banana story fits in well as an object lesson about what this shit can do when let loose. And don't even get me started on the dates and tomatoes...

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Fri May 23rd, 2008 at 03:50:42 PM EST
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Re: Tinfoil Twitter (4.00 / 3)

It rang a bell when I read about the plans to spray coca, but I'd forgotten it was you who'd written about it!

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri May 23rd, 2008 at 04:39:43 PM EST
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Re: Tinfoil Twitter (4.00 / 2)

And why would you remember? I barely did. In fact, it seems very unlike me...

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Fri May 23rd, 2008 at 09:22:41 PM EST
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