>>For crying out loud... someone move this prattle to chatter.
OK I'll shut up... except to say that they're growing some resistant Gros Michel so the future of the banana may be larger and tastier than we think!
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
