Thanks to pezzae for linking to this article:

Our bananas are in terrible danger!Much as I appreciate the seriousness of this in terms of the fact that the economies of countries reliant on bananas as their main product are likely to be devastated and that it is merely one instance of an endemic problem with global mass agricultural practices; and much ( Read more... )

I was going to do the book meme but recalled that I've already done it, so I won't repeat the exercise. I will note, however, that since then I have read four and a half of the books on that list that were unread at the time ( Read more... )