Posted on 02/14/2015 1:07:03 PM PST by Enlightened1
The government on Friday approved the commercial planting of genetically engineered apples that are resistant to turning brown when sliced or bruised.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I guess spritzing them with dilute lemon juice is too much trouble for some people...
Yeah, and which crisis in our country looms larger? The crisis of an epidemic of neurodegenerative diseases in our young and old? Or the crisis of opening up your lunch to find the pre-sliced apples have browned?
Not being enlightened, I just love spraying gallons of it all day during the spring, summer and fall - pay is good too.
Within about 20 years they will be the only ones on the market maybe as soon as 10 years. Choice? You won't have one and they won't be required to mark the product as such. Just because a company "Can" do something doesn't make it ethical or even right. Mans so called experiments with plants and trees has created a few good results abut also some very major devastating results such as this one.
We didn't back in the early 1900's stop people from bringing in Chestnut tree saplings from Asia to graft into our Eastern American Chestnut Trees. The result was billions of trees the equivalent to Redwoods of the west coast perished by the early 1950's. By my early childhood in the late 195-'s only a few stood alive. In 1900 the tree's were so large a family of 12 holding hands could not reach around them. Taste? I got to taste one my dad knew about before it died in the early 1960's An American Chestnut was delicious and no the ones sold at the store are not American Chestnuts.
Finding good tasting fruit and vegetables these days in a store is all but now impossible thanks to the corps paying researchers & growers to manipulate them into tasteless dried up products of universal size, extended shelf life, and so bland and dry inside they aren't worth buying. The biggest rip off is Citrus in both pricing and taste. Second place goes to tomatoes.
“Within about 20 years they will be the only ones on the market maybe as soon as 10 years. “
Again, if the market decides it, so be it.
By the way, you can get the non-GMO organic tomatoes. You just have to pay for it. Premium food requires premium dollars.
Finding good tasting fruit and vegetables these days in a store is all but now impossible
We had the best health care system in the world and history and it was destroyed by complainers like you because it wasn’t PERFECT!
Funny all I remember was black bananas as a kid. When no one else would buy them Mom would and we would have banana bread. We got A ORANGE on Christmas. Apples were soft and mushy but we ate them and lots of apple sauce.
Throughout history there has been food shortages and WE WILL SEE THEM AGAIN. Will you complain then?
Please just identify them as such so that I don’t have to spend my money on them.
Last I heard the FDA ceded testing and approving over to Monsanto!
Makes sense since most of the FDA are former and future Monsanto's anyways!
No problem we get most of our Apple Juice from China anyways....
If one wishes to have an apple that does not quickly turn brown on cut surfaces, choose the Cortland variety. There is no need to re-invent it.
Yet, even in Washington State, world-renowned for its apple production, esp. the Red Delicious in the recent past, the Cortland apple and its dis-inclination to turning brown when cut is not generally acknowledged.
If one wishes to have an apple that does not quickly turn brown on cut surfaces, choose the Cortland variety. There is no need to re-invent it.
Yet, even in Washington State, world-renowned for its apple production, esp. the Red Delicious in the recent past, the Cortland apple and its dis-inclination to turning brown when cut is not generally acknowledged.
“Fine. If anyone wants to eat clean-looking tasteless, GMO apples, have at it.”
Why do you say tasteless?
Look at tomatoes. We market the pretty ones but they are almost tasteless.
Perhaps this is a way to get better tasting apples and tomatoes to our table.
What is Glyphosate
1) Use of chemical for weed control so you have abundant cheap food
2) import many more immigrants to pull weeds and they are going to shit on your tomatoes and carrots.
3) A food shortage.
Which do you want? Notice I say want, not what you don’t want. Managing for what you don’t want gets you nowhere.
Grow your own, the taste difference and texture are a real treat for your mouth and taste buds.
“Although ff you want tumors or cancer, then eat these unsafe apples right up.”
I would ask you to back up your statement but I know you can’t.
I finally grew my own orchard because I remember what fruit used to taste like, threw in some wild choke cherries to, just for making jelly.
All fruits and vegetables, as well as most of our foods grown have been genetically modified by man. The technique was selection of desired traits over long time periods.
Now it is possible to engineer the changes and skip the time it used to take.
That’s progress.
Time to plant more apple trees!
“I can remember a time not so long ago when fruit and vegetables actually had some taste to them. GMO and hybrids geared solely for shipping size and extended shelf life have destroyed it. “
Was not GMO. Most vegetables and all fruits except for the one in the article are NON-GMO.
Yes and I remember when ripe bananas didn't have that unripened Persimmon effect on my taste buds too. And you point is what? We can produce unripe tasting food? I remember mom me hands off the bananas I'm going to make banana pudding. In taste an over ripened banana of my youth beat what is called ripe today. Fruit like Oranges was seasonal BUT the Oranges & Tangerines we got usually for a 3-4 month period were juicy and not dried up. Grapes? Nothing beat a Concord. Now it's grapes from Chile never ripe and $3 a pound. Tomatoes were juicy even the greenhouse ones. I can't remember the last time I bought a firm, ripe, juicy Turnip. I gave up.
I know you're next reply. Grow your own. Well it seems one company who specializes in seeds has sewn up the market LOL so to speak and you take their hybrids or nothing. Oh and they are literally trying to claim ownership of all seeds due to cross pollination. Yeah some ethics and what a real corporate friend huh?
The U.S. may well face a food shortage. Rather than make the best use of farm land to feed people and put back for possible strategic catastrophic reserves we are instead as taxpayers subsidizing an insane corn growing program for corn to be grown to use as fuel. Gee I wonder what companies are pushing that one.
Our healthcare system has nothing to do with this thread BTW. I'll ping you to a remedy I posted on another thread about that issue though.
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