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Spray to stop bananas rotting: New product can keep fruit fresh for two weeks
Dailymail.co.uk ^ | 08/22/12 | By Fiona Macrae Science Correspondent

Posted on 09/12/2012 7:32:12 PM PDT by southern rock

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To: southern rock
Thankfully I'm not a vegetarian... I've eaten at least 40 gnats this week and one larger bug that flew up my nose while I was pruning trees. Then there's the red velvet cupcake at work, that was probably cochineal food coloring.

It is believed that the spray could help save some of the 1.6million bananas thrown away in Britain every day.

I see the British haven't discovered Banana Bread.

SAVE THE BANANAS

41 posted on 09/12/2012 8:13:42 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: JRandomFreeper

You are wrong about organics, but whatever , and I really, really don’t care to hear anything from Texas. Go have some beef. I couldn’t care less about your animal “fetishes”. Enjoy.


42 posted on 09/12/2012 8:13:57 PM PDT by southern rock
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To: southern rock
Maybe the spray can be tweaked to preserve lentils and tofu.

HAHAHHA! I kill me!


43 posted on 09/12/2012 8:14:55 PM PDT by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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To: southern rock
Ever been in a field where 'organic' was being harvested by 'migrant workers' who didn't have access to sanitary facilities?

Why does the FDA have 'fecal splashing' as a contamination vector?

Humans are made of Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, and Oxygen, with some trace elements. We eat carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen, with some trace elements.

CHON is what we are, CHON is what we eat.

You make a big fuss about what you eat, making sure it meets certain ritual requirements, but regardless of your angst over it... you are going to get CHON, with trace elements.

Actually, BTW, I prefer pig. Only thing I don't use is the squeal.

/johnny

44 posted on 09/12/2012 8:20:03 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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Only thing I don't use is the squeal.

Some people will waste anything!

45 posted on 09/12/2012 8:28:21 PM PDT by moose07 (The truth will out, one day.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
You make a big fuss about what you eat, making sure it meets certain ritual requirements, but regardless of your angst over it... you are going to get CHON, with trace elements.

I'm more concerned with the pesticides, antibiotics, and steroids.

I have no problem with other people's choices. I just really prefer my own. I could go on and on about people who are vehemently anti-organics. I believe they are at the heart of it, collectivist. They resent the "bourgeois"- ness of it all. They resent people with the means taking up land and resourses to produce quality, low-yeild foods, when the rest of the world needs to be fed cheaply, with mass-produced, high-yeild foods.

Food "fetishists", as you call them, are anti-proletariat, and are resented for that reason. Don't think this is not the case.

46 posted on 09/12/2012 8:34:32 PM PDT by southern rock
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Plants produce pesticides, antibiotics, and steriods without human intervention.

Do you really know what 'organic' means? It means there is a Carbon atom involved.

I don't resent anyone eating whatever they want, even if it's 100 year old duck eggs, or fugu soup, or bird's nest soup.

What I resent is them whining about it.

I made my money off selling fat rich men mostly raw goose liver from force fed geese. That's pretty bourgeois. I'm partial to it myself.

You have NO assurance that what you are eating is what you think it is unless you grow it yourself.

/johnny

47 posted on 09/12/2012 8:43:34 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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>There should be a law, and men with guns to enforce it.... ;)

It's for the cheeruns. They needed a new dog anyway.

48 posted on 09/12/2012 9:36:20 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a Barack 0b0tt0my!)
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To: southern rock

“Like it wouldn’t get into the fruit”

I really doubt it. Banana skins are quite thick, designed by nature to protect the fruit. It’s a gel coating,,,, not gonna penetrate to the fruit. You’re worrying about nothing. And I’m a 90% vegetarian. I eat no meat, except for fish, as it’s just so good for you!


49 posted on 09/12/2012 9:46:24 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: southern rock

When life gives you brown bananas, make banana bread.


50 posted on 09/12/2012 9:55:28 PM PDT by bgill
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To: southern rock
Nothing but love, bro, nothing but love... You eat what you want. I'll support your right to do that until the end of time.

Just don't regulate what I eat. Free range, deep fried, corn fed pig skins ain't cheap.

/johnny

51 posted on 09/12/2012 10:34:49 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: southern rock
Due to your post I was thinking about vegan-ism tonight. I was also thinking about killer bees. Then I wondered if vegans ate honey.

Turns out that is somewhat of a controversial issue. An interesting and fair examination is found here.


52 posted on 09/12/2012 11:03:40 PM PDT by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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To: southern rock
The article helped me understand why you are covetous of the dwindling food stuffs available to you.

53 posted on 09/12/2012 11:07:38 PM PDT by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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To: JRandomFreeper

cooking is science, so is washing your hands after you handle poultry


54 posted on 09/13/2012 3:06:30 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: southern rock

“bananas would no longer be suitable for vegetarians and vegans”

So lie down and die and quit taking up space on this planet!!!!


55 posted on 09/13/2012 3:14:42 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: JRandomFreeper; southern rock

What are other peoples choices regarding their food a problem? Nothing is more important than what you eat.

You want to eat crap, go for it. You want to insult me for choosing not to then go screw yourself.


56 posted on 09/13/2012 3:23:16 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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