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		eutropia on Aug 27, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let's build houses for people, not cars I mean, I guess the tradeoff is "keep bananas cheap" vs "keep banana industry alive in Australia". Unless all those growers had cyclone insurance, in which case, yeah, probably should have let in the foreign bananas, right?

doubleunplussed on Aug 27, 2019 [–]

The issue was not of propping up a domestic industry, I believe it was of keeping out disease. So no, I don't think foreign bananas were going to be allowed whatever shape the industry was in.

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