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- chuzwuzza, on 06/29/2008, -6/+12Mmm, Tomacco.
- 9bpm9, on 06/29/2008, -5/+10Vegetables.
- funktimus, on 06/29/2008, -0/+4I don't see why someone dugg you down. My parents grew up on farms and they been growing gardens as young as I can remember. Their tomatoes are delicious, irregular and bulging shaped, and never that insane color you see at the store.
The ones at the store are just like how you describe, all appearance. They taste like nothing, they have this dark vibrant red color to them, and they got this uniform shape to them. Even if you go to some fancy produce market or whole foods type store, still taste awful. And you can tell the second you slice into them their going to taste bad. - BarriedaleNick, on 06/29/2008, -2/+6Well in this case they are using wild relatives of the tomato plant which has a greater genetic diverity. They are not simply adding genes from other plants or animals. This can be achieved using gentetic analysis and conventional breeding techniques without the need for genetic modifications in the scientific sense..
- 47f0, on 06/29/2008, -1/+5We have the automation of tomato harvesting to thank for the styrene-flavored tomatoes in most produce departments. At the time the machinery was developed, there were no varieties that stood up well to the abuse of mechanical picking. Commercial tomatoes have been developed to be harvested green and hard as a rock, then turn red after shipping. Flavor got lost somewhere along the line. About the only thing you can do to help is keep your mater's out of the fridge - apparently cold temperatures absolutely kill any of the flavor-enhancing ripening - they'll still be red in the fridge, but will have even less flavor.
- MarkCiccone, on 06/29/2008, -1/+4Fruitables.
- BarriedaleNick, on 06/29/2008, -3/+6Dont worry you can go back to your lolcats-obama-ifone safe in the knowledge you wont have to think about anything..
- Thrilltone, on 06/29/2008, -4/+7Despite their claims, all work of this nature seems to focus on appearance and profitability, with little regard for actual taste. No store tomato compares to homegrown and store peaches taste like plastic.
- PSotter, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2The Flavor Savor tomato was a resounding failure. 90% of the actual research performed is "basic" research, aimed at better understanding of the biology of flowering, ripening, etc... "Practical" research is mostly aimed at improving yield. Most of the corn and soybeans that we eat are actually genetically modified (whether by transgenesis or by classical breeding) to resist pests or to be more robust under drought or other adverse environmental conditions.
- BarriedaleNick, on 06/29/2008, -2/+4Big bucket - good compost - pickout the side shoots - feed well when in fruit - keep moist but dont over water - grow some lettuce to go with..
- Thrilltone, on 06/29/2008, -0/+2> "I don't see why someone dugg you down"
Much like this synthetic fruit, they're just bitter and impotent - beauley, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Some of us grow a small garden or a flower bed along the side of our home and some use a piece of land to give our family the needed nutrition by growing organic vegetables. We benefit more from the latter.
http://www.gomestic.com/Gardening/Grow-Organic-Foo ...
Grow Organic Foods in Your Back Yard - beauley, on 07/03/2008, -0/+1Worry about pills, not tomatoes
To the Editor:
I'm no mathematician, but the figures I'm going to throw out to you enrage me. Approximately 165 people have gotten sick from eating tomatoes since April; 24 are reported being hospitalized. One person has died who was unfortunately already sick with an underlying condition. Stores and restaurants are pulling tomatoes off their shelves and menus. People are scared to eat tomatoes.
Are you scared to take your pill today or start a new one? Approximately 2 million people a year are sickened or injured by OTC and prescription drugs; over 100,000 die. You do the math. Have the media told you that? Oh, yea, they're owned by pharmaceutical companies. We wouldn't want to put them out of business. Let's just put our hard-working farmers out of business.
More people have gotten sick in the past hour from prescription and OTC drugs than have gotten sick from tomatoes in the past three months. Is this why we don't even make the top 10 in life expectancy? How does any of this make any sense?
We have become a drug-dependent, oversanitized society with no immune systems. How many healthy people are keeling over because they ate some contaminated food? (According to the CDC, deaths are rare). How many healthy people are on drugs?
Do the farmers a favor and eat your tomatoes.
Marina Shearn
Dublin
June 19, 2008 5:52 AM - Shaman760, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1Oh great...the tomato (say "Taa-MAAA-tow") snobs are on patrol. Bah!
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- rootsm3, on 06/29/2008, -1/+2So why don't you type a little witty comment about this article then?
- inactive, on 06/29/2008, -2/+3Yeah, I have been picking out those suckers, but they resprout just as quickly...Thanks for your advice.
- 47f0, on 06/29/2008, -1/+2Want pics - of a tomato? Well, ok, here's what you do. Get your red crayon out, draw a circle, then fill it in. That's more or less what a tomato looks like. Hope that helps.
- inactive, on 06/29/2008, -1/+2This is digg no one on here has anything intelligent to say.
It's like the new 4chan. - jokertothethief, on 06/29/2008, -1/+2Right now, science is building a better tomato.
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- cran, on 06/29/2008, -1/+1How dare anyone judge a vegetable just because it has seeds inside!
Hey hey, ho ho, botanism's got to go! - cap11235, on 06/29/2008, -2/+3Is that you McCain? I thought you couldn't use a computer?
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http://makeupapplication.org/ - fhernand, on 06/29/2008, -2/+2I am not speaking for myself, it's just that these stories do not usually get to the frontpage, amongst all the stories with that are submitted. I am just making an observation about how weird this is.
I read it, and as I said, I found it interesting. - BarriedaleNick, on 06/29/2008, -2/+2You remember the 1700s? Congrats you are the oldest person on digg..
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- EmperorAwesome, on 06/29/2008, -1/+1Dear farmers:
Tomatoes are *****. - rootsm3, on 06/29/2008, -1/+1So they've finally turned into to-mah-toes...almost all fruit is genetically engineered that we eat. And it will continue to be since less than 5% of the population is made up of farmers.
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www.acicehre.org - TopherT, on 06/29/2008, -2/+1Christ, I would have thought that by now people would have learned that the only right or wrong in nature is reproductive success.
- MasterGrief, on 06/29/2008, -2/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_killer_ ...
- PSotter, on 06/29/2008, -2/+1Metabolic engineering has a long way to go, certainly. I am particularly interested in transgenesis involving chloroplast transformation. The exciting thing about it, that even opponents of plant transgenesis agree with, is the fact that pollen does not contain chlorplast DNA (cpDNA). Therefore, transgenes or transfer DNA is not transmitted via pollination. In our lab we are beginning to conduct research using chloroplast transformation. We simply propagate the transgenic lines by tissue culture making clone plants.
Any other biologists here? - NotOptium, on 06/29/2008, -6/+4These comments suck.
- inactive, on 06/29/2008, -4/+2The leaf of the Tomato is Poisonous...I have about 10 different varieties on my Organic patio garden.The Cherry Tomato is the best as the Green worms don't seem to like them,I don't think they can munch the small outer layer and the reward isn't what they could get from larger type.
- smoothmann, on 06/29/2008, -3/+1Go lite on the salmonella
- GoldenPearl, on 06/29/2008, -3/+0ignorance is bliss
- ausrokit, on 06/29/2008, -3/+0take a dump next to it.
- Shaman760, on 06/29/2008, -6/+3I personally prefer my tomatoes grown in the traditional manner. And traditional tomato seeds. No frankenfoods, thanks.
- dOOBiEx213, on 06/29/2008, -11/+6Genetically engineering food: because nature is wrong.
- Tamriel, on 06/29/2008, -7/+1Hey guys. Remember, um, remember when people thought that... that tomatoes were poisonous?
That was great. - inactive, on 06/29/2008, -8/+3I live in an apartment, and my super just allowed me to plant a tomato outside a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully all goes well, but does anyone have some tips for me?
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