Enjoy your bananas now, they may be gone soon
You may think of the banana as a cheap, tasty staple but you may not be feeling that way for long.
Dan Koeppel, the author of "Banana: The fate of the fruit that changed the world," warns us about the next upcoming price shock in a recent NY Times Op-Ed. Ready? Bananas hitting $1 a pound. Reasons cited are the rising cost of oil and floods in Ecuador, the world's biggest banana exporter.
According to Koeppel, the fact that bananas have remained this cheap for this long is "astonishing," as bananas are grown thousands of miles away, must be transported in cooled containers. Even with all of these precautions, bananas only last two weeks after being cut. Bananas only became a staple when the company that is now known as Chiquita figured this all out, cleared rainforest in Latin America and came up with transportation routes.
To read more about the history, and the future, of the banana in America, see Koeppel's Op-Ed here. And remember, the banana is "an exotic fruit that, some day soon, may slip beyond our reach."
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