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Don't like bananas, never have. Personally, I could care less about them becoming extinct.
Posted: 22:47 Jan 19 2003
bananas becoming extinct
what do you think about this? I mean i don't really like them yet in 10 years there will be no bananas i mean this is awful bananas have always been here, i'm gonna personally make the msot out of them and eat them before they all go, its a shame also that if i have kids they may never get to try a banana 
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Posted: 22:47 Jan 19 2003
There's some sort of banananannananananana plague.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2664373.stm
Here is bbc news link...
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2664373.stm
Here is bbc news link...
Posted: 22:57 Jan 19 2003 
I'd be suprised if it turns out to be as bad as is speculated, it may be the big thing that makes the general public more accepting of genetic modification.
Though it's not a plain-and-simple case of a species being wiped out, it's still essentially the same process and the same result; I've long thought that the watershed event for public acceptance of genetic engineering would be the extiction of a speices, though I'd assumed it would be something cuddlier, like Pandas.
Even if you don't like bananas, their extinction should still be an issue -- I've never been especially fond of dodos, but I still think it's a shame there aren't any.
Though it's not a plain-and-simple case of a species being wiped out, it's still essentially the same process and the same result; I've long thought that the watershed event for public acceptance of genetic engineering would be the extiction of a speices, though I'd assumed it would be something cuddlier, like Pandas.
Even if you don't like bananas, their extinction should still be an issue -- I've never been especially fond of dodos, but I still think it's a shame there aren't any.
Posted: 23:37 Jan 19 2003
lets say bananas do become extinct though, surely it will effect a lot more things. Animals that live on them will then eat more of other fruits or foods wwhich will mean less of other foods so more animals could die and could it not them reduce the amount of other species?
Posted: 23:42 Jan 19 2003
I think I'm going to buy stock in companies that make isoamyl acetate (artificial banana essence) 
Posted: 00:12 Jan 20 2003 
No more bananas and custard! 
Damned good idea!
by Tycho
I think I'm going to buy stock in companies that make isoamyl acetate (artificial banana essence)
Poor little(!) things, how do you know if you've never met one?
by Callum
I've never been especially fond of dodos
Posted: 00:27 Jan 20 2003 
Those animals live on the wild version, not the human edible version. So wild animals won't have a problem with it, it's all those African people that depend on the human edible variant...
by SPIKE
Animals that live on them.
Posted: 08:32 Jan 20 2003
NOOOOOOOOOO! 
I don't think I could live without my banana & Marmite sandwiches!
Save The Banana!
I don't think I could live without my banana & Marmite sandwiches!
Save The Banana!
Posted: 08:57 Jan 20 2003 Don't you mean:
by Whistler
Don't like bananas, never have. Personally, I could care less about them becoming extinct.
Don't like bananas, never have. Personally, I couldn't care less about them becoming extinct.
Posted: 09:12 Jan 20 2003 
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!! 
How the heck am I supposed to make my (pretty good tasting) banananananananannana (sorry, couldn't resist
) milkshake (with real Banana!) with no bleedin' Banana???
How the heck am I supposed to make my (pretty good tasting) banananananananannana (sorry, couldn't resist
) milkshake (with real Banana!) with no bleedin' Banana???
Posted: 13:27 Jan 20 2003 That really makes me feel sick!
by Taz
I don't think I could live without my banana & Marmite sandwiches!
Posted: 14:37 Jan 20 2003 I know exactly what you mean... Marmite = yuck!
by Mr Bob
(quotes)
That really makes me feel sick!
Posted: 10:10 Jan 21 2003
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmarmite. When I was pregnant I used to eat bananas and ketchup.
*eyes Taz suspiciously*
*eyes Taz suspiciously*
Posted: 13:35 Jan 21 2003 That was my mum's reaction when she first saw me eating a banana & Marmite sandwich
by Teresa
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmarmite. When I was pregnant I used to eat bananas and ketchup.
*eyes Taz suspiciously*
"Please tell me you're not pregnant!"
"I'm not."
"Better b****y not be!"
Such a carer, my mother
Posted: 13:42 Jan 21 2003 
No more banana fritters!!! And what about fruit smoothies? This is really tragic
Posted: 20:39 Jan 21 2003 Ha just wait til Tycho (TM) Banana fritters come on the market.
by vampire_dust
Textured protein + isoamyl acetate in batter Mmmmm
Posted: 00:26 Jan 22 2003
Yup, this just smacks of an excuse to but GM bananas on the third world market.
Seems a little unlikely that this danger has only just been seen, and the scientist heading the organization that wants to use GM on bananas is also quoted in the article as saying that extinction is slightly over stating the problem.
Still, who wants to live in a world without banana splits?
Seems a little unlikely that this danger has only just been seen, and the scientist heading the organization that wants to use GM on bananas is also quoted in the article as saying that extinction is slightly over stating the problem.
Still, who wants to live in a world without banana splits?
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