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What is causing all of these plagues to hit our food supply? Have you heard of citrus greening disease? Probably not, but it has already gotten so bad that it is being projected that Florida’s orange harvest will be the smallest in 30 years. Have you heard of TR4? Probably not, but it has become such a nightmare that some analysts believe that it could eventually wipe out the entire global supply of the type of bananas that Americans eat. In addition, another major plague is killing millions of our pigs, and a crippling drought that never seems to end is absolutely devastating agricultural production in the state of California. Are we just having bad luck, or is there something else to all of this?
Probably not.
Maybe some new pesticide is ready to go on the market ?
originally posted by: xuenchen
Is this *Real* or is this some kind of conspiracy to create shortages thus raising prices ?
originally posted by: Phage
Probably not.
Maybe some new pesticide is ready to go on the market ?
It is, however, possible that genetic modification could be effective. In 1998 the GM Rainbow papaya was commercialized in Hawaii. It saved the papaya industry which had been devastated by the papaya ringspot virus. Was it a plot? No. The virus first appeared in a severe form in 1950 on the island of Oahu pretty much wiping out production there. Growing continued on Hawaii island but by 1995 the virus had spread and destroyed commercial production there as well. Unfortunately, anti-GM vandals have been trying to replace the devastation of the virus on their own.
hawaiitribune-herald.com...
Your "related story" has nothing to do plant diseases. Or are you saying that the droughts are on purpose like the plant diseases are?
Your "related story" has nothing to do plant diseases.
Or are you saying that the droughts are on purpose like the plant diseases are?
originally posted by: Bedlam
It doesn't help that all commercial bananas are clones. So any sort of disease process that's successful against them, will spread rapidly and quite possibly kill them all. That's already happened once as recently as the 1950s.
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
originally posted by: Bedlam
It doesn't help that all commercial bananas are clones. So any sort of disease process that's successful against them, will spread rapidly and quite possibly kill them all. That's already happened once as recently as the 1950s.
All bananas are clones, bananas are a man made fruit, created several thousand years ago by hybridizing 2 other plants.
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
originally posted by: Bedlam
It doesn't help that all commercial bananas are clones. So any sort of disease process that's successful against them, will spread rapidly and quite possibly kill them all. That's already happened once as recently as the 1950s.
All bananas are clones, bananas are a man made fruit, created several thousand years ago by hybridizing 2 other plants.