#don’t even get me started on monocropping because I won’t shut the hell up

[foe-of-fate]

Sitting here thinking about the old type of banana that isn’t around anymore because it got a disease that spread to all the other banana crops. More specifically I’m thinking about how agribusiness learned absolutely nothing about that and continues to grow monocrops which degenerate the soil, decrease variety within the species, and increase the likelihood of that happening again.

Thinking about bananas being clones of each other and how dystopian that is but God forbid we get a banana that isn’t shaped perfectly well or doesn’t appear to be vibrantly yellow and plastic looking.

Thinking about how the attempt to grow produce for aesthetics will inevitably result in an even narrower market of products than what is currently available.

The market is cornered and we’re going to either lose more species to disease because they aren’t allowed to evolve disease resistance, or farmers are going to sacrifice flavor for appearance and profit.

Honesty just fuck big agriculture. Fuck ag-gag laws, fuck the disappointment that is the current red delicious apple, fuck profit over planet, and God bless the Gros Michel banana.