{"id":6774,"date":"2017-04-18T17:52:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T17:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6774"},"modified":"2017-04-07T17:52:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T17:52:54","slug":"linked-humans-made-the-banana-perfect-but-soon-itll-be-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/04\/18\/linked-humans-made-the-banana-perfect-but-soon-itll-be-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Humans Made the Banana Perfect\u2014But Soon, It\u2019ll Be Gone&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3157,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.wired.com\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/humans-made-banana-perfect-soon-itll-gone&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250330091021\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.wired.com\\\/2017\\\/03\\\/humans-made-banana-perfect-soon-itll-gone\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 03:07:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-14 23:49:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-20 19:53:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-27 23:06:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 09:23:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 00:54:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 00:54:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/03\/humans-made-banana-perfect-soon-itll-gone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Wired<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In 1950, most bananas were exported from Central America. Guatemala in particular was a key piece of a vast empire of banana plantations run by the American-owned United Fruit Company. United Fruit Company paid Guatemala\u2019s government modest sums in exchange for land. With the land, United Fruit planted bananas and then did as it pleased. It exercised absolute control not only over what workers did but also over how and where they lived. In addition, it controlled transportation, constructing, for example, the first railway in the country, one that was designed to be as useless as possible for the people of Guatemala and as useful as possible for transporting bananas. The company\u2019s profits were immense. In 1950, its revenues were twice the gross domestic product of the entire country of Guatemala. Yet while the United Fruit Company invested greatly in its ability to move bananas, little was invested in understanding the biology of bananas themselves.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This makes me want to go on a trip to try more varieties. I feel as if I\u2019ve been left out of a culinary\/hipster\/adventure of so many flavors that are not profitable enough to export to USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Wired: In 1950, most bananas were exported from Central America. Guatemala in particular was a key piece&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-04-18T17:53:22Z","apple_news_api_id":"445ebeb7-1b74-42f9-9387-d8e25932ad25","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-04-18T17:53:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ARF6-txt0QvmTh9jiWTKtJQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Lg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7656,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/04\/30\/review-portsmouth-hefeweizen\/","url_meta":{"origin":6774,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Review: Portsmouth Hefeweizen","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"3.6 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0AROMA\u00a07\/10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0APPEARANCE\u00a03\/5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0TASTE\u00a08\/10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0PALATE\u00a03\/5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0OVERALL\u00a015\/20 adamjackson\u00a0(241)\u00a0- Canaan, USA - APR 28, 2012 A buddy in southern New Hampshire sent this up. 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