Organic bananas vs conventional bananas?

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Permalink Reply by Jade on August 20, 2012 at 8:03am

I don't understand why this community is being so unsupportive of a newbie asking questions.

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Permalink Reply by Chris P. on August 20, 2012 at 1:55pm

Hi Jade, I don't think that is necessarily the case, but having seen trolls come and go, and I do not think that is Aydrianna's purpose, people are often "on guard" if they catch that "flavor" because that or of thing can pretty quickly come in the guise of "freedom of expression" suck the life out of a site, make it an "unsafe" and unfocused place and then leave it in ruins. See my post to Jamie just above this one.

There are some wonderful and supportive people on here and a lot of combined experience that we all draw on. I think a lot of people here really value that and may sometimes guard it jealously. I'm glad for that, we can all look out for each other and lend a hand and feel safe doing it because of the unity of purpose here :)

But like I said to Jamie, we each are responsible for ourselves in the end and have to do what we have to do to get the best results for ourselves. No one else can do it for us and we can take or leave any advice we read or receive. We are all free agents.

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Permalink Reply by Justin Morgan on August 20, 2012 at 7:13am

There have been plenty of brilliant people that changed the lives of people all over the world in their twenties or younger, among them Augustus Ceaser, Anne Frank, Thomas Jefferson, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Secrets of Longevity guy isn't a wiener because he's in his twenties. He's a wiener because he say's idiotic things. Don't doubt him because he's young, doubt him because he's an idiot.

BTW, I'm no longer in my twenties either.

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Permalink Reply by Trevor Gates on August 20, 2012 at 7:28am

hey Aydriana, you should change the name of this thread [again] to: "Life vs. Death?".

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Permalink Reply by Aydriana on August 20, 2012 at 8:13am

I didn't change the title or edit the thread... I was actually wondering who did that.

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Permalink Reply by Trevor Gates on August 20, 2012 at 10:17am

Well, whoever did it, thanks! And also thanks for adding the video of organic "earth" bananas.

I would also like to note that if you live somewhere where bananas can grow they are some of the most productive, fast growing, and sustainable plants you can grow!

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Permalink Reply by Justin Morgan on August 20, 2012 at 7:36am

Secretsoflongevity = 10 hours/day on google

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Permalink Reply by Dovima on August 20, 2012 at 12:10pm

Aydriana- just wanted to let ya know the majority of us warmly welcome newcomers and those on a learning curve!

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Permalink Reply by Bart M on August 21, 2012 at 1:43am

Aren't organic nanas destructive because they have to constantly chop down new rainforest and plant organic on new soil as they try to avoid Sigatoka disease? That's what I read in a book about bananas once.

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Permalink Reply by ednshell on August 21, 2012 at 2:20am

That is indeed what the guy in the top video is saying he read in a book. I don't know how to compare that with the sustainability of other diets except of course meat production is well known for cutting down rain forest on a much larger scale. Supporting truly sustainable agriculture while buying bananas is doable. One example I do know of is earth university which has been growing sustainably and fair trade produced bananas and they taste so much better than organic dole.

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