"No GMOs" on Food

[CORed]

Vine ripening improves flavor, but that has nothing to do with GMO. Tomatoes on the vine are just as apt to be GMO as non vine.

Flavor was bred out of most tomatoes, in favor of size and uniform redness, before GMO. Vine or no vine, store tomatoes are just awful. If you want a wonderful tomato, you need to grow your own heirloom, buy an heirloom, or wait for them to GMO the flavor back into commercial varieties.

Commercial varieties were also bred to ship well, which contributed to making them tougher and less flavorful.

 

[theprestige]

Vine ripening improves flavor, but that has nothing to do with GMO. Tomatoes on the vine are just as apt to be GMO as non vine.

Flavor was bred out of most tomatoes, in favor of size and uniform redness, before GMO. Vine or no vine, store tomatoes are just awful. If you want a wonderful tomato, you need to grow your own heirloom, buy an heirloom, or wait for them to GMO the flavor back into commercial varieties.

Depends on your definition of "wonderful". Industrially-farmed tomatos may lack in flavor and mouthfeel, but they are composed of the same basic nutrients as their heirloom cousins. They are also relatively cheap and abundant, in part because they're trading away flavor for transportability. That's pretty wonderful, if you're trying to get common vegetables into millions of people.

Show me a "bad" tomato, and I'll show you an accessible tomato.

 

[Red Baron Farms]

Depends on your definition of "wonderful". Industrially-farmed tomatos may lack in flavor and mouthfeel, but they are composed of the same basic nutrients as their heirloom cousins. They are also relatively cheap and abundant, in part because they're trading away flavor for transportability. That's pretty wonderful, if you're trying to get common vegetables into millions of people.

Show me a "bad" tomato, and I'll show you an accessible tomato.

Not at all Prestige. You are not looking at the situation correctly at all. Basic nutrients are not the only nutrients that are important, nor is the current system of accessibility to most markets have anything at all to do the tomato itself, but rather regulatory burden designed to purposely drive out local production by small farmers.

Regulatory Capture
Regulatory capture is an economic theory that says regulatory agencies may come to be dominated by the industries or interests they are charged with regulating. The result is that an agency, charged with acting in the public interest, instead acts in ways that benefit the industry it is supposed to be regulating.

This is certainly not "wonderful" by any means. It is a travesty.