[nickcarraway]

Most of the berries you can get at the farmer's market taste better than berries you find at the supermarket.

[Mastador1]

Oh noes! Our strawberries are the result of genetic manipulation? Burn them all, destroy the corrupt progeny, back to the bland and tiny fruit.

[Kirkwood]

Louisiana strawberries are 1000x better than that stuff from california.

[bkopto]

Shaw wrote that he is leaving because the university no longer cares about the kind of practical, commercially valuable breeding that he does. "We do not fit here any longer," he wrote in the e-mail.

UCD is probably thinking that it needs to hire a few more administators and a few more affirmative action hires in the Gender and Race Studies department. Screw the practical stuff.

[Zeppo]

Compare this statement:

"We got a phone call from the University of California," says Carolyn O'Donnell, communications director at the California Strawberry Commission, an industry group that has helped to fund the UC Davis breeding program. "They said that we no longer needed to send them money because they were going to discontinue the [breeding] program" when the current breeders leave.

With this one:

Mary Delany, an associate dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at UC Davis, says the lawsuit is based on a misunderstanding. "We never said that we were going to close the program. We said that we are evaluating the program," she says.

So is Mary Delany a liar? It sure sounds like she is claiming that Carolyn O'Donnell's statement was false. A "misunderstanding"? Not very likely, is it?

[Veto!]

Two days ago, I bought a pound of organic strawberries at my supermarket. The brand that tasted great just two weeks ago now tastes like dried out strawberry jujubes. Blech. And sitting on the counter for two days didn’t soften these bright red berries one single bit.

Apparently, “organic” doesn’t mean they haven’t been irradiated to death.

I have serious irritation at irradiation.