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Aug 2, 2014 4:41 AM CST
Name: Glen Ingram
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I hate posting things like this, But the globalization of diseases is destroying much.

http://qz.com/164029/tropical-...

'Our reliance on monoculture to feed surging global populations is catching up with us. International agricultural organizations are already scrambling to find new scourge-resistant substitutes for things like rice and potatoes. In fact, so dire are other global agricultural problems that Tropical Race 4’s onslaught doesn’t even get bananas near the top of priority list. “Getting support to develop new resistant bananas is really tough—there are already so many demands on the international agricultural community,” says Ploetz. “There’s a lot of hunger in the world and bananas just have to get in line behind all those other big problems.”'
The problem is that when you are young your life it is ruined by your parents. When you are older it is ruined by your children.
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