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A Fast Food Nation for the foods we grow and depend on

The bananas we eat today aren't your parents' bananas: We eat a recognizable?? consistent breakfast fruit that was standardized in the 1960s from dozens into one basic banana. But because of that?? the banana we love is dangerously susceptible to a pathogen that might wipe them out.

That's the story of our food today: Modern science has brought us produce in perpetual abundance-once-rare fruits are seemingly never out of season?? and we breed and clone the hardiest?? best-tasting varieties of the crops we