Regardless of your stance on GMOs, opposition might let up if science delivers us a delicious, disease-resistant banana. "A lot of people are against GMOs, but for this particular situation GMOs might be the best way to handle this. Scientifically there's been no information to suggest that GMOs are bad for your health. The information that's been bandied about comes from non-scientists who don't know what they're talking about. But I'll just say that the opportunity for managing this disease is probably greatest with a GMO banana, because you could slot in one gene for resisting this disease and retain all the other things that Cavendish has going for it. If the consumer expects Cavendish, GMO would be the best way to produce a Cavendish-like fruit that's resistant to disease," Dr. Ploetz says.

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Otherwise, one day you'll probably find bananas are much pricier than they were before, and after that, replaced by some weird-tasting thing that will try to fill the banana-shaped hole in our hearts. Brazilian passion fruit is certainly making a strong case for itself:

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