‘Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.’ –Bill Gates
A banana may be healthier than a burger, but how it’s brought to you is not all that different. Before the fast-food industry learned to process, pack, and ship inexpensive temperature-controlled meals, banana carriers had already perfected their own shipping process. […]
The result “is bananas that arrive at the market on their final green day, and which will last exactly seven days before turning brown.”
By the time bananas land on the supermarket shelf, their ripening process has already been carefully engineered through the use of three gases: ethylene, carbon dioxide, and oxygen.
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