This editorial piece over at the Seattle PI details why bananas will be a thing of the past in short order. The author writes:

Bananas are dying. The foodstuff, more heavily consumed even than rice or potatoes, has its own form of cancer. It is a fungus called Panama Disease, and it turns bananas brick-red and inedible.

As if this statement was not enough to roll your eyes the next paragraph really illicit contempt for this primitive thinking journalist.

There is no cure. They all die as it spreads, and it spreads quickly. Soon — in five, 10 or 30 years — the yellow creamy fruit as we know it will not exist. The story of how the banana rose and fell can be seen a strange parable about the corporations that increasingly dominate the world — and where they are leading us.

Oh god! The asinine statement that bananas will be lost forever is bested by the claim that this is because of the evil scary corporations. One can’t help but think that the scary thing in this story is not the corporation but that an esteemed journalist with a college degree somehow managed to retain such silly childish understanding of corporations.

If you wish to measure you partisan left ignorance gauge how compelling you find his reasoning. The more reasonable you find it the more ignorant you are.

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