Yes We Will Have No Bananas


	Yes We Will Have No Bananas

ruralart

6-21-2008 12:34 AM

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bananas, oil, rain forest, deforestation, flood

ruralart says:

Amazing the way oil, the rain forest, shipping, and marketing developed and then may lose the banana market... not to mention Mother Nature's assistance/interference.

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