It won't disappear. It will just become an unaffordable luxury item.
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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I know it isn't exactly the same but there are as many varieties of artificial vanilla out there. It's not disappearing, we're just not concerned with the original
People who do pastry and food are absolutely concerned.
And they will get over it. Our current banana isnt the same as the old one but its that or nothing.
First thought when I read this headline was this is absurd, vanillin is super easy to synthesize the scent/flavor isn't going anywhere. Now actual beans may become super scarce which sucks for sure.
Is there any reason, if the specific conditions are so narrowly defined, that we can’t grow the orchid hydroponically in a controlled environment anywhere in the world?
It's really expensive. Cultivation outside Mexico already depends on child labor because the bees it needs only live in Mexico
"along a very narrow band of the earth, between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn."
Uhh, I wouldn't consider that very narrow, especially given that it's 36% of Earth's landmass and a third of all people live in it
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