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- BillE3, on 11/13/2009, -0/+8620 years of cross breeding.
Pretty much every single food item we enjoy is the result of extensive cross breeding while a few are naturally occurring mutants (red delicious apple). Some are first generation cross breed plants such as the sweet corn you love and the seedless table grapes you enjoy.
Even the "organic" varieties are crosses that have been grown organically to produce seeds or clones that can be sold under the "organic" banner.
Decades upon decades of cross breeding have brought us the foods we love and enjoy. When it all began the public panicked thinking it was closer to witchcraft and would destroy them all. - kylescousin, on 11/13/2009, -0/+50Good news, now I can keep postponing to eat them for 4 months, and then throw them out.
- ShadyCroquet, on 11/14/2009, -2/+42I wish I could digg you up a million times. Agriculture goes hand in hand with artificial selection. We domesticated corn, grapes, olives just like we domesticated dogs, cats, and husbands.
- ParadiscaCorbas, on 11/13/2009, -1/+27Science!!
Tasty, tasty science!! - mikbor, on 11/13/2009, -1/+26Science.
- j27lee, on 11/14/2009, -2/+24How do you like them apples?
- daretheninja, on 11/13/2009, -1/+21Transgenics have never been so tasty.
- valis, on 11/13/2009, -5/+21They not rot proof. They are grown disease resistant and genetically presupposed not to have unsightly blemishes through cross-breeding. These are not franken-apples (so to speak,) but rather they are the result of intelligent [here it comes!] design - by agricultural scientists.
- bettverboten, on 11/13/2009, -8/+23That is amazing, just so it is safe.
- RonADiSH, on 11/14/2009, -2/+16Science is not one guy, you know
- GorfTron, on 11/14/2009, -1/+13Thanks, Dwight.
- serv, on 11/13/2009, -1/+12INFINITE CARAMEL APPLES
- BeShirtHappy, on 11/13/2009, -4/+15This was my first thought as well.
- Nicoon, on 11/14/2009, -2/+13a lot of which you should be thankful for.
- Cabrio, on 11/14/2009, -1/+11So you take a couple of weeks to digest any other apple?
- AdmiralHalsey, on 11/14/2009, -0/+9Is that a question?
- BillE3, on 11/14/2009, -0/+9Even the native Americans were practicing artificial selection with their corn seeking better production and flavor.
- Nicoon, on 11/14/2009, -1/+9To whoever decided to bury me:
Get off digg and go live in the forest and hump rocks if you hate scientific advancement so much. Clearly you shouldn't be living in a modern society with the rest of us. - masonga95, on 11/14/2009, -0/+8This is the best thing science has made since the internet.
- wastelander, on 11/14/2009, -0/+7Exactly!
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple
The tree originated from Central Asia, where its wild ancestor is still found today. There are more than 7,500 known cultivars of apples resulting in a range of desired characteristics. Cultivars vary in their yield and the ultimate size of the tree, even when grown on the same rootstock.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus_sieversii
Malus sieversii is a wild apple native to the mountains of Central Asia in southern Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Northern Afghanistan and Xinjiang, China. It has recently been shown to be the sole ancestor of most cultivars of the domesticated apple (Malus domestica).
So stick with Malus sieversii or stop complaining you Treehugging winers.. - ldsan, on 11/14/2009, -1/+8i just saw food inc so i will digg u both
- brandnewx, on 11/14/2009, -0/+6Ouch! That hurts.
- onClipEvent, on 11/14/2009, -0/+6what's more, the article made it sound like the apple was developed in a lab, with scientists manipulating genes in a petri dish, but another article says: "Its longevity is also obtained without genetic modification – its disease-resistant properties come from a gene found in the Asiatic apple malus floribunda."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddri ... - m4csrgh3yk3v, on 11/14/2009, -2/+8Downside:
Taking a bite from it has the same affect as drinking from the wrong grail. - Chunken, on 11/14/2009, -0/+5It says at some point in it's history the immune apple was hit hard by fungus or disease but it managed to survive as a more badass apple through natural selection. Evolution WIN! Then humans made it get freaky with a buncha other apples to make it yummy, possibly ensuring it's long term survival. Evolution Bonus WIN!
- LinuxSmooth, on 11/14/2009, -0/+5Now if only they could do something with milk...
- ach111es, on 11/14/2009, -3/+7That's nice, Apple, but PC's stay fresh 6 months long!
- MacBookForMe, on 11/13/2009, -1/+5Love apples at all times....
- swanny89, on 11/13/2009, -6/+10In my experience, stuff usually goes bad because things like bacteria and fungus start eating it before you do. What does it say about this apple that bacteria and fungus turn their noses up at it?
- RocketGib, on 11/14/2009, -0/+4They finally came out with a rot-proof Apple? They've had scratch-proof Windows for years.
- mizarone, on 11/14/2009, -2/+6Now they just need to make a crash-proof apple.
- 350Zed, on 11/14/2009, -3/+7Is that a question.
- notadiggtard, on 11/14/2009, -1/+5You win the prize for the most idiotic comment!
- rossisdead, on 11/14/2009, -0/+4Food for any trip that lasts a few weeks where you can't get fresh food? Like space?
- j3ff86, on 11/14/2009, -0/+3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ70hbvaPdU&fea ...
- norwegianlegion, on 11/14/2009, -0/+3While cool, it's still... fruit. I'm still waiting for the important things, like jetpacks and the button on the TV that sets off a beeping noise in the remote, so you can always find it. Make it happen, science.
- LinuxSmooth, on 11/14/2009, -0/+3Al Gore didn't invent these apples
- BillE3, on 11/14/2009, -0/+3Same with that candied "English Walnut" (Juglans Regia) we love so much during the holidays. Nothing English about it; it was traced back to Central China as well.
- ltethe, on 11/14/2009, -0/+3lol... Now apples will be like plastic bags... Damn things won't biodegrade. We'll have millions of apples floating out in the great Pacific Gyre...
Perfectly shiny apples littering the beach. Hundreds of years from now, after the apocalypse, people will digg through our garbage and find edible twinkies and apples.
*shrug* I can see some unforeseen consequences here, but I'm game, let's try this stuff out, see what happens. - GrandZooby, on 11/14/2009, -0/+3Yeah, but then you lose the button to activate the beeper. So then you put a beeper on the beeper button and hope you don't lose that one.
- HotLeper, on 11/14/2009, -0/+2good to hear apple is going green
- ApeInago, on 11/14/2009, -0/+2I beleive it's a question of scale. Due to the rapid advancement of agricultural science, these types of things are happening at a much faster rate. Without some checks and controls like he mentioned, there might be a rotten apple that can in fact spoil the barrel, so to speak.
- inactive, on 11/14/2009, -0/+2We're not all retarded.
- HandyMummy, on 11/14/2009, -0/+2I'll take the liberty to be sceptical.
It is a great step for science - no doubt about that ...
But I'll take the liberty to be sceptical, because spoiling, destroying, or manipulating with the natural processes in fruit and other kinds of food will in the longer terms also spoil, destroy or 'manipulate with' the natural processes in those who eat it.
You become what you eat, so to speak ... maybe not you, yourself - but during generations we are on our way to self-degeneration and maybe even self-destruction if we don't respect the basic natural processes. - norwegianlegion, on 11/14/2009, -0/+2You clearly forgot about the Shamwow.
- GorfTron, on 11/14/2009, -2/+4I didn't know that rottweilers attacked apples.
- xexx, on 11/14/2009, -0/+2"downvoted" for narrow mindedness and self importance. I'm sure the starving third world could easily just buy more apples after their old ones rot on route to their country, they're not on a budget or anything.
- Cglass, on 11/15/2009, -0/+1Are those questions?
- jarjarbinx, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1Yehey! Now my iPod will last longer!
- Rudegar, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1bury me all you like but do yourself a favor and check up on how the number of vitamins dec over time after a piece of fruit is picked
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