Oh Banana beautiful, Oh beautiful Banana, In my backyard I want a tree!

...Yippee...I ate my first banana in twelve months recently, now prices have fallen from $14.00 per Kilo, to under $2.00.
In fact, I think I have now developed an addiction to bananas; I consumed four in "blissful" succession yesterday.

bannana is a herb
not a fruit

most fruitshops have a wall of green bannanas
so running out of them is near immpossable

that their price increase is measured
in the govt numbers is absurd

[as absurd as measuring .or not measuring the
weekly..[bi weekly],the 10 day dycle,
changable price of fuel..

or not costing in
all work related cost as deduction
[that income tax isnt wage tax]

anyhow back to the bannana peel

i refuse to buy the slimey things
ever since the south amercian bannana scam

besides the marfia runs the food coop op
and the moneyed elite speculate more wealth
the herb is cursed

I live very near the South Johnstone research place mentioned in the article.
There they have been working using GM (shock horror) to produce bananas that contain a high amount of vitamin A. That is for East African countries where Vitamin A deficiency is a serious problem. The work has been a success.
For me that demonstrates the power of GM, so possibly it could be used to 'toughen up' current varieties against panama disease and the Sigatokas etc. The lack of seeding makes normal breeding for improvement very slow indeed.
I understand and sympathise with the need for care with GM, but I do not like the blanket oppostion that we see so much of - especially from people who live in wealthy parts of wealthy countries

Banana's are not fruit - they are a herb.

May the South Jonstone Research Centre's project be given the herbs so that bananas will be fruitful and multiply.

Actually bananas are are fruit, the wild-type contains seeds.
The plant they grow on is a herb.

Genetically they are quite interesting, in that they are all pretty much clonal, which makes them very vulnerable to diseases. It's also somewhat odd that a lot of banana research takes place in places like Belgium, as a hangover from colonial days.