You can find this article online here. Not only are they worried about a banana extinction, one has already occurred. From the article:
Really quite an interesting article, regardless of one’s personal feelings toward the banana.
They might as well be extinct, given the price of them in Australia at the moment (post Cyclone Larry). Where before they were maybe $2 or $3 per kg, they are now up around $14 or $15 for the same.
:rolleyes:
So, therefore, bananas may go extinct in Australia. Suppliers, start revving up your export businesses now and aim for Down Under. There’s gold in them thar curved fruit!
Why dont they crossbreed them with something else then, say like a pineapple. I like bananas, and pineapple, and the new fruit “pinana” would probably be worth a Willy Wonkian greeting to life 
I’m just imagining “pinana” burgers. Oh, drool … 
Imagine the daquiri’s! Pinana Coladas!
Alas, I fear I am misunderstood. I have no qualms with “Yes, We Have No Bananas”; it is a cheerful little tune which, importantly, I generally only encounter when I desire to do so. No, I refer to a far more insidious thing indeed. To wit:
*"Let me hear you say this shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S!
(This shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S!)
Again this shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S!
(This shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S!)"*
DIE.
Die and return to the demonspawn pits of the cursed fiery hell from whence you came, and no more corrupt the hearts (and ears) of the mortal plane.
(And if you want to take those awful-tasting yellow crescents with you, be my guest.)
They’re only friggin 25 cents a pound in WI. :eek:
Probably a royale split.
There are few fruits that offer a decent flesh to effort ratio. That is, the effort in preparing them to the amount of edible flesh. High ratio fruits are apples, pears and of course bananas. Middling ratio would be papaya. Low ratio would something like pomegranites.
What could I replace bananas with? More importantly, what else would manufacturers put into baby food desserts?
“Banana” in the average American accent is an ugly word. “Banana” in a cultured English accent makes me smile, it sounds so lovely. I’d miss that.
However, if bananas become extinct, we shall no longer need to know how to defend ourselves against attackers armed with them.
And here I thought you meant “I’m Chiquita Banana and I’m here to say, eat a banana every day.”
And I respectfully disagree with Qwest. Green bananas are delicious. Sort of like a kiwano horned melon but easier to eat.
That aside — I, for one, would like to welcome our new pinana overlords.
Same as “bear left.”
Well, as a great, wise man - Plato, I think, or perhaps Socrates - once said, “Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.” Those words remain as true today as the day they were written.
I thought that was Groucho Marx.
They’re still evolving. Wings are in the plan.
Good grief. I remember when bananas used to roam the wild in great big herds. If we had only known.
Remember back 30 years ago when the only variety of apples in the stores were Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, and Granny Smith? Now you go to the grocery store and you’ll find 20 varieties of apple.
Today you go to the grocery store and 99% of the bananas are Cavendish. They might have a few plaintains, or red bananas, or baby bananas, but most places only stock Cavendish.
20 years from now, when grocery stores stock 20 different banana varieties from the endless diversity available in the tropics, we’ll look back at this Cavendish blight and fall to our knees in thanks for what we are about to recieve.
Which explains why Harry Belefonte’s follow-up, “The Banana Plane Song” never got any airplay. 
Wow, what will happen to sex ed? How will the teacher show the students how to properly put on a condom without a banana.
(I never understood why putting a condom on a banana will prevent a teen from becoming pregnant, but I didn’t ask questions - teacher said so it must be true)