Fun Fact: Bananas are Cloned!

Yes, your read the title right. Bananas as we know it are all cloned! Mind boggling isn't it? Around the 1950's , after the extinction of "Gros Micheal" banana due to disease, it was decided that the "Cavendish" bananas would be genetically cloned. All the bananas were cloned to be exactly the same with small seeds that would not allow them to be regrown.

Just another way that scientist and the government control almost everything you eat. It is not impossible to get a real banana but very unlikely since they grow in the wild, no where near the United States. Wild bananas (real bananas) are smaller than there cloned siblings and have larger pods.

 

These larger pods are seeds used to replant the bananas. When comparing the two side by side there is a larger difference. It is disturbing to think that nothing we eat is real. not even fruit? Why I am I buy organic bananas when their all cloned? Beware of your food and where it comes from.

wild banana on the left, cloned banana on the right