Bananas As We Know Them Are Doomed 

THEY SHOULD GET RID OF THE DISEASE.. NOT LOOK FOR A RESISTANT TYPE .. THEY ARE APROACHING IT WITH STUPIDITY.. SMH

I don’t eat bananas

Civil war and genocide one day, banana plantations the next day... she gets around!

@@lll870621345lll Did it ever crossed your brilliant mind that they already tried that route you rich ass ignorant boy?

Talking of sexual harassment! That must have felt uncomfortable for Ms. Yeung. Kudos for her professionalism.

True. 👍😎

ROFL

The female is ready for the sex today.

@@cremecrimson9035 Only today lol

Rafael Garcia Can’t say no to that🤔😆

Governments have been overthrown to ensure Americans have bananas, it’s actually quite a big deal

The vice team paid for her to go, not her.

@@seancarroll6511 And, so? What's your point?

@@robert9016 Utter bullshit!! I'm not American and these countries screwed themselves.

That's bananas

South America was farmed by North America...If people only knew history.

Now all the Latin American countries sell cocaine instead and kill millions of lives.

@@tubester4567 people have to make a living one way or another . Some time they have no choice . It is sad . Some time it is between live or die .

@@tubester4567 they planned it that way

@@tubester4567 *now America farms Latin America for cocaine and influences them into killing millions for profit

He had a banana in his pants.

Her looking so offended pissed me off to be honest. Like how are you gonna be a reporter and not have tough skin, dudes analogy was solid and she took it there.

@armenian kurds yallah

@@t0nicss867 What r u saying, they fc.kd all afternoon in the plantation. Ask the harvesters. they probably caught it on Whatsapp Stories. Haha

@@realeconomy5348 dude hybridization and phenotypes are literally 7th-9th grade science and statistically men and women are just as smart as each other so the average female would understand the hybridization involved in the joke. Somebody from the 1600s would probably also get the joke before alleles were even discovered, because common thought before then was it was 50/50 on traits.

@@DR-54 Dude, lots of women do not catch on to humor. If you do not know this, I'm sorry for you.

@@realeconomy5348 tf kinda women you talking to they're pretty much just weaker, slightly more emotional men.

😂😂😂 Yo ya'll are killing me mehn

Darrell Smith BB if I were a cell, I’d go rogue for you ❤️

😂😂😂😂

She was so creeped out, poor thing. Closes shirt tighter, restrains desire to cringe just in case it a horrible language translation issue or scene can be somehow professional. Ick.

Why dont they just spend money on a marketing campaign to retrain us to not be dumb about the aesthetic? 🐒

@@TheTrue32 Lol her closing her shirt is edited doofus. It's opened in the next shot and then closed once again the following shot. She's fine lol.

I was having the same thought as well

I love bananas. I usually have one, daily--a Cavendish, of course. I'd love to try other varieties if they were avaliable for purchase. After watching this video, it seems preposterous that A Cavendish Banana is the only Banana avaliable in US Supermarkets.

The most popular banana was the Gros Michel. But it suffered the same fate as the Cavendish that replaced it. It was attacked by a tropical fungus and now can't be commercially grown.

@@mr.dr.k3148 - I grew up on Gros Michel... they didn't completely leave the market until the late 1900s. i did notice the change -- LOTS of things more than taste are diff from GM -- such as speed of ripening and what happens to them if they get a bit overripe.

@@prog.rocker Huh, that's very interesting. So, from what I understand, when the narrator says, "commercially extinct," due to disease they cannot grow a specific type of produce commercially, however, such produce can still thrive domestically or in small gardens? It will be interesting to see how this plays-out.

In India we still have got the traditional banana with crap tons of seeds . Banana evolved in the humid tropical regions of S.E. Asia with India as one of its centres of origin.

He had a banana in his pants.

😁😁😁

He doesn’t just breed bananas

it didn't just end there...close your eyes and listen to the 20 seconds after that lol

I want to see Isobel eat a banana

Sex

Dan the banana man 🤣🤣 thats catchy... id rock it

@@jameswarren2894 coulda been Dan the panty man.. that raise so many questions then answers lol

Nothing wrong with that!!

I would love to be called Dan the Banana Man

@@nerdinspace. same

Don't worry, INDIA's diversity of trees r resistant to anything. That small sweet resistant banana they shown in called CHAKRAKELI.

India has 163 types of it.

Same here in South East Asia, I have many of them in the backyard.

You got it wrong mate, bananas are originally from Indonesia-Malaysia-New Guinea-Australia.. they are not native to India, they never were.. My family has been in the banana farming business for decades, My great Grandpa started it. although we have recently switched to Sugarcane/turmeric.. ..

@@abhishekgadag9457 not sure of the origin. I need check this out. What we meant that we do have a great varieties of bananas.

Yes, the little fat finger bananas, They grow in the Bahamas. Love them too.

@@ttun100 chikito

Me too lol great minds think alike.

That made three of us

Big Facts

​@NonyaBusiness! think you missed the point, big dog... no need to dismiss something i didn't condemn

KsKeeZ 710 Lol me too

The man has no class !! Very rude !

Dont judge a fruit by its skin but judge it by its taste. My grandmother told us to buy bananas with flaws on the skin because that is an indicator that it is sweet.

Yes 💯💯💯absolutely

I would argue that this is not the consumer's doing. Look how no one batted an eye when the Gros Michel was replaced by Cavendish.These companies spent a lot of money convincing the consumer that they need a perfect fruit and vegetable. This in-turn allows them convert their farms into mono-cultures that reduces costs and increases their profits.

Have fun with your fruit flies 🤗

I love bananas. I would love to try other types but my supermarket only carries 2 types.

Whose?

He was creepy.

@@edwinmendoza2032 you are creepy

Not as creepy or as thirsty as Dr. Aguilar. 😂😂😂

@@edwinmendoza2032 :D I think he doesnt know english so well

Meanwhile i cursed whenever I ate a banana and found seeds in it

@@cobidbeksin5200 other vafienties have seeds especially less edible .

Say his name more like.

MY NAME

You should read the book. I had no idea it could be that interesting.

See my banana farm ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IE2AAfqQJ90.html

I honestly never thought I'd find a documentary so useless trying to Demonize the Big Companies over Banana production....

Thats why tomatoes are so bland. The chemical that produces the taste also causes brown spots on the skin. So they bred out that gene to create a uniform red tomato.

He sounded like an old African man.

Also explains “red delicious” apples. They look great but are lousy!

@@MemoryException like baby wipes Check out "wild explorer" if you'd like to learn more about the edible fruits of this planet

Of humankind. Americans, British,etc

That's also what she says.

i’m sure you would adam

same here

That's the key, you can only buy what's available. Businesses want cheap labor and cheap products. Anything that is not profitable for them is not going to be chosen for sale or provided by those businesses.

Adam u dirty boy

I wonder how many creepy line the said before that scene. Biologically, his word are kinda correct, but said it in a creepy way.

@Caleb M. F Amen to that.

If you go dressed like a slut, expect someone hinting to have sex with you.

The Mute she’s wearing a long sleeve shirt 😂

@@dvdrwsor Okay incel.

I was just thinking the same thing! If there was a sign saying that in this brand the marks don't mean anything, it would start changing the way consumers buy it. I've heard that you actually want a watermelon that has a flat, yellowed side bc that means it's had time to sit and ripen. And now I don't buy the perfectly oval, uniform-looking watermelons anymore. People aren't stupid, they just need to be informed.

U kidding me this interview was totally worth it for that Dr. guy, to actually say what he said to an interviewers face on camera first time ever probably made her blush a little.. Wonder if she likes 💓 it.

@ArmchairWarrior have you ever been to Texas???

Agreed we will try new bananas look what we did for the friggn jack fruit we love new kinds of produce good point

@@elchucofried5683 Hey guy, the united states isn't within texas.

Agriculture clears every landscape they can, destroying billions of fruit trees and millions of species of fruits. Then they force usnto buy this horseshit imitation sterile product.

Thats not what he meant though, Americans tend to buy aesthetically pleasing bananas - aka no black marks on them and perfectly shaped. If you were to introduce the type that get marks on them but are still good on the inside, they wont sell, because they buy with their eyes. They know this because americas don't even buy the normal Cavendish bananas if they're not perfectly shaped and yellow coloured.

but bananas are haversted like that other wise its probaly all gonna rot and be masmashed in the way out of the farm ,even when you live close to the farm

@@nonec384 Thanks for stating the obvious. The point is, you who live faraway from Banana-land are stuck with an inferior product and forced to pay a premium price. There are lots of food stuffs that have been adulterated in order to meet market demands. Rice for example, is 'polished' for longer shelf life. In the process of polishing most of the vital nutrients are lost. Brown rice is better. Although fruit picked before the natural sugars can form is not a man-made processing deal,but it does essentially render it 'adulterated' from its natural process.

@@songsabai3794 i live far from central america but banana tree can grow in my backward .....there one growing right now ,but i dont like bananas anyways , and i have eaten brown rice it takes forever to cook and it has a taste that may not be for everyone

@@songsabai3794 but i think fruit i have eaten right from the tree is guava and it has the same taste as the one i get in the city and even better sometimes becuz its bigger and is allways ripe

@@nonec384 .....Im not trying to convince you of anything other than stating the fact that fruit picked and gassed for instant ripening will never taste as good as natural sugar formation.This of course doesn't mean all fruits only the ones that have a lot of sugar in their flavor, guava not being one of those fruits. So, you live in semi-tropical clim? banana growing out your door,lucky for you. So many people in Canada have to shovel snow just to open their door and go buy bananas --haha.

I do , although the taste of Cavendish bananas is ok , it's much duller then the taste or the Gros Michel banana , but you can't eat what you don't have !

@Chris Ruiz They do exist. I know of a 'bite' size banana in the West Indies; specifically Trinidad & Tobago. The banana measures around 3" to 4" at most (yes it is YELLOW) and it is much sweeter than the basic Cavendish, with a smooth silky consistency when bitten. Not offered in the US!

Its also why lots of banana flavoured things don't taste like bananas, the synthetic banana flavourings where formulated using Gros Micheal banana taste.

@Chris Ruiz , hi in New York those are sold in the stores , maybe ' two bite size ' ( like about the size of a thumb ) but they taste like the Cavendish , so it's not impressive , but cute !

I found out when I traveled to Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia around 10 years ago. It was most incredible to see and experience some of the other side. The food, art, music, and culture are amazing in lots of countries far from America and Europe. Despite the good old fashion quality, most of it is very cheap and affordable for this a very classical old world sort of thing based on small business economies centering around families, values, and traditions. Can we say cheap and mostly honest? Absolutely despite that not being the case in the US at all.

I know right? I think these people heavily underestimate the consumers. If they would go "yo, full disclosure, this does not look like much, but it tastes amazing", i would buy that banana.

I've noticed that two other varieties are showing up in US super markets the past several years. Red bananas and tiny finger bananas, but they're pricey and not nearly as good as the much cheaper organic Cavendish bananas from Ecuador. We have the most varieties of food we've ever had, but still not like you get in a tropical or even subtropical area such as southern California. Our farmers markets don't go year round and are over priced the 3 or 4 months they are operating. Wouldn't you love more selection, better prices, and things like round vine ripened tomatoes and fresh everything else market year round? Lots of Western country people like Americans and Australians live in such places, but they're either financial independent or they're on sojourn doing a gap year or perhaps teaching English as a second language to kids in countries like Mexico and Thailand for there aren't the wide variety of usual jobs on offer to foreigners.

In Canada they are 2x as expensive as always...

Sandwich247 me too

Me too!!!

By the look on her face, it didn't.

She's a very unprofessional journalist.

@@marjanp how?

i'll use that pickup line in a night club or something, favorite part in video

Yeah, don't you just hate men who are men. Sickening.... 😆

That's gross tbh..

Fiker Gaming Master of the subliminal message.🤣😂

So scripted and cringey, Just like Live PD.

The urgency turns the most dry panties into Niagra falls.

I got to remember to use that line next time I meet a hot chick. LOL!!

pretty sure i'm not the only banana that has heard that line................for realz

Nate Hecimovich the history of the United Fruit Company is probably equally as bloody, if not more

Its history

Jason Huang any good videos or reads? I'm interested

"Woman" Did you just assume her gender? I expect better from Vice viewers.

@@herpderp7264 it's 2020 let it die bro

Living in Florida I can say that the cavendish store variety is the blandest tasting I have tried (and also they pick them green rather than ripening on the vine which takes away flavor). They just use that variety because of large size and large crops. It's all about $$ getting more pounds per acre. Recently stores started selling some more expensive different types of bananas which I like better. Anyway its not hard to cross breed bananas. They just take pollen from the seedless one and cross it with a seed banana. Just not much effort has gone into breeding new commercial bananas.

Judging by her reaction it was a bad call.

American romance be like

I’m honestly curious how the rest of the world buys????

This is true for most people and most countries, if not all.

Lucijan Ratajc ok thank you for confirming this.

I actually buy with my cash.

South Asian bananas.... Southeast Asia bananas (Luke) I am your father.

Exactly. I don't even eat the Cavendish.

@nomar Dinkleberg give it time. You'll get there, don't worry.

deathbait What if he’s from a country where they don’t eat dogs, sip bat soup and shit in public?

@@roadrunna0075 you mean country like Italy or America or Germany, they must be a save heaven from coronavirus right ;

Blue Bison wth

What time?

@@manekain9831 11:37

Lady didn’t know it was an analogy and thought he was for real lol

As a honduran myself, we tend to do that haha

patent RGB bananas, quick!

It was very brief but very DEEP and true statement.

@@AlexanderBukh lol

Honestly man, this hit hard.. it's so true

Itz DewZaPistol : Sounds a little too much like EU Carrot uniformity.

Nah.. he's got a monkey that does it, but it was a very naughty monkey that night and it earned a spanking. ;)

lol!!!

Hahahaaha

Hahahahahaha I was waiting for that !

He tried though. Lol

no she wasn't, that was scripted. Similar to reality television.

They are actors. Good Hollywood script.....

Isn’t this journalism?? Why would they have actors

@@yeetbaljeeet5435 Cause fake news and Hollywood go hand in hand

@@yeetbaljeeet5435 Journalism is now all theature, & courts decided news need not tell any Truth, cause this is just Show Business (Propaganda). Football is merely entertainment, so cheating is permitted according to courts. (Isaiah 5:20).

that shot was heavily edited. Her top is open then closed then open then closed while he's talking.

@@syberphish is that just the exotic flower pedals flapping in the tropics ?

@@solarnaut Could be, could be.

Yeah, i was cringing watching that.

he probably did. we will never know.

Latino Borat lul

She is sticky she is ready for sexytime today. Only today

@@ChristianNorge hahaha

Feminists might hate that line!😂💩👁👁

This is what happens when everyone grows one kind of human, or one kind of plant, its called monocropping and the planet ends up killing them off eventually by some unseen mutaded to adapt, uncurable disease. This also has happened to chocolate plants last decade, its why chocolate bar went up in price and down in size.

@James Horton Yeah... maybe you can make sense?

James Horton why do you have to be so rude?

Exactly. SciShow had an episode about this 6 years ago. The banana candy you can buy today is what bananas used to taste like until they all got wiped out

GMOs saves the day yet again

"Okay."

I came down to the comments exactly for this lol

@@artcasperos So did I.

I can't read that facial expression, was that a rejection? The guy sounded like he knew what he was doing.

12:49 "by Aguilar's own estimate it takes about 12,000 bananas to find a single seed " this is not his first banana rodeo . . . it's a numbers game . . . legend has it that he won't solve the banana crisis until . . . the last female reporter on earth has been to his" plantation "

I live in Indonesia, I just bought 5kg worth of gros michel bananas for 32,000 rupiah (only 2.25 us dollars) 😚. Im going to freeze them for smoothies

So true lmao

ahaha too right

11:47 casually hiding her boobs from the creep.

Go deeper.

I hope she reads this

12:27-12:44 one four eight eight

@@daniellevy1703 what does that mean?

Yeah, in my country also grow a species banana that is smaller,much smaller banana, delicious

Yes I've heard that... And probably BC they are real bananas. Someone told me just several weeks ago that our bananas aren't real and that's the first I've ever heard anyone say that. But now I see.

i live in Pico Rivera a suburb of Los Angeles . i have grown those style of bananas the short fat ones . they are sweet and just as good. now im growing mangoes , avocados, naval oranges, guavas, and papayas oh yea those small corona beer style limes all in my backyard that is only about 60 sq. ft. i almost forgot a couple of sativa weed plants

Were they a red-cavendish hybrid?

so you ate a choad huh

"I'm resistant to dying, never have had a death in my life"

@@svampebob007 lucky! I've dead like 8 times now

Me: I dropped the Cancer bond in the office The judge: ... gave me an orange suit for my sick banana

This depends on whether you think each culture should define what is right or wrong or if humanity as a whole can have principled ideals

@Uden One-Eye you are completely right people are going to do things without thinking

@Uden One-Eye Yeah let me just go back in time and not listen. B r u h your logic is broken

Some? U mean all, until you say something about thier family, then its not a joke no more

I agree. Maybe they just see banana reproduction as love. It's so sweet, that they're comparing it to humane love.

But you do remember his explanation.....

It is for cancer 😂😂😂 trust me

@@lore2587 They have a great script.....

@@charlesmichaels6648 Yes but most people would not say something like this to someone they don't know. The reporter really isn't hard on the eyes if you ask me. Tell me he didn't have a sexual thought behind this and I'll convince you I'm still a virgin. ☺

@@danyf3116 They are actors. They have a great script.... (remember the story)

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my new fruit is mangosteen. crazy benefits. most the benefits in the rind though.

@LastbutNotFirst I fell in love with the mangosteen when I visited Vietnam years ago. Very difficult to find them fresh in USA and quite pricey too. I didn't know the rind was edible.

@@kelly2fly i have not had the fresh fruit, its a goal tho.. i buy the powder with the rind ground up.. from terrasoul. not great tasting, kind of bland.. gritty due to the rind.. but healthy... the rind contains all the xanthones or whatever they are called.. 20 of 'em. super potent medicinal properties in the rind. anti-cancer, anti parasitic, anti bacterial. etc.. the tree takes 10-20 years to bare fruit.. which is why i became interested.. hardest to grow plant on earth.

andrea gonzalez I also kinda disliked how he was stressing that the idea of banana as a fruit originated in that stupid hot house, like as if people weren’t eating bananas before that in south Asian and Latin America.

@andrea gonzalez The same can be said about the Caribbean. That's where England received the best bananas ever grown. These bananas were grown in the Caribbean islands of Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and Grenada. I think the brand was called Windward Islands Bananas.

Ian Casey yeah I know many many countries are still suffering from colonialism and imperialism

@Weißer Wolf don't be rediculous.

Weißer Wolf exactly! All Central America needs to free themselves from the past & end all cultural appropriation now!

Nahh i still love peaches

I'm fine with green, brown or yellow as long as the fruit inside is tasty, fresh, ripe and ready to eat, and not horribly bruised up and damaged. I love fried ripe plantain but I can seldom find ripe plantain. They are green and kind of chalky and tasteless.

@@jazzcatt

@@scottmattern482 Typical male. Phffft!

I have to wonder if I'm the only one who saw the various 'superior' bananas, with 'inferior' looks and thought "Hipster Bananas".

12:49 "by Aguilar's own estimate it takes about 12,000 bananas to find a single seed " this is not his first banana rodeo . . . it's a numbers game . . . legend has it that he won't solve the banana crisis until . . . the last female reporter on earth has been to his" plantation "

@@solarnaut who else would put curing seed into her banana flower ? 🙂😍

To hell with bananas a pretty reporter like her is enough.

😂🤣😭

Who wadda thunk Dr Aguilar would be more confronting to Yeung than the creepy chinese undercover cops when she did the Uighur documentary. Edit: maybe Yeung bats for the other team and was not appreciative of his analogy.

😂😂😂 I thought the same thing!

"US Americans"

@Big Wheel I personally blame you.

Mass landlessness? What are you even talking about?

@Big Wheel Blame USSR, China....

Pompous Brits laying claim to the world rights of a tropical fruit they "conquered". Piss off, Limeys. Que feo esta gente de la Inglaterra. Bastardos todos.

My grandfather has a patch in his backyard in hawaii. It really is way better. Sweet like apple banana’s but a stronger, creamy taste.

they are still available, but a lot more expensive.

Me too. They were far better quality and larger. None of us remember them, but you can see in the black and white picture t hey were superior in quality, size, and taste like said in the video. Profit always comes first before product quality and what is actually best for the, 'consumer.' The organic food industry targets those of us who want and need better than industrial mass produced, but prices are usually too high making it a deceptive tricky racket of nonsense. Nanners is cool name. Do Japanese call them nanners? South Korea just calls them banana same as in the US.

never mind don't tell them, let the locals enjoy it.... and let the world enjoy their cavendish.

Possible explanation: the banana republics (Honduras and Spain) were former Spanish colonies. While the Philippines isn't really a banana republic, it was featured in the video as well (and was also a former Spanish colony).

gnilttbs it made sense to me

Comment police... hold it right there.

🤣

shooters gonna shoot

love the pfp

Go deeper, you will find the answers.

We call them finger bananas in the Bahamas. Yep, they are short, but fat and sweet.

Devastating result of uncontrolled/unchallenged western capitalism.