apple slices that don't turn brown!

[Ladyhawke1]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/15-5

Even my chickens won't eat these.

 

[lesa]

I was reading about the potatoes that don't turn the other day- but hadn't seen anything about the apples! I guess big business will never learn that you shouldn't mess with mother nature!! Just the 999th reason to grow your food! Thanks for the article.

 

[Ladyhawke1]

I was reading about the potatoes that don't turn the other day- but hadn't seen anything about the apples! I guess big business will never learn that you shouldn't mess with mother nature!! Just the 999th reason to grow your food! Thanks for the article.

Yes, and not that I believe that anyone here feels like this..but I believe that I am not an island and I cannot just live in this world just to serve myself.

All my needs are not provide by my own labors and there comes a times when I do have to buy groceries. Then what?

Why isn't there more local involvement, and done with a lots of creative passion?

I heard someone on the radio saya progressive no less .they said. The American people do not like to take the blame for anything, so then they blame the government.

I am now beginning to believe that statement.

WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT!

 

[wifezilla]

The more stores carry the frankenapples, the more my real apples will be worth. Of course, we know what that means...there will be a law banning me from eating or selling my own real apples grown without pesticides or genetic modification.

 

[bid]

Well...let me play devil's advocate here for a moment, even though this is way out of my depth. Purely for the sake of discussion.

The technology for this was actually developed for potatos. Mr Carter has a license to use it for apples. It is GMO in that it "turns off" a gene that produces an enzyme, polyphenol oxidase, that makes apples and potatoes turn brown when cut, bruised. It is present in quite a lot of fruits.

So the question is this; is ALL GMO bad or just certain ones? For example, this process does not insert any foreign gene into the product as some other GMOs do. It does alter the "communication" of the sequence.

 

[Ladyhawke1]

Tell that to my chickens who took one bite and went pit..tuie....and ran away!

 

[wifezilla]

It is more of a history thing. Change one thing, something else changes and it ends up bitting us in our collective keisters. These products are rushed to market without proper study on human health or on how it will effect other growers of non-gmo products.

I am not a long-haired, granola-crunching, earth-hugging hippy type. I am a capitalist libertarian. But this whole GMO thing scares me. Corporations* are using gvmnt to force their agenda and destroy small producers. This eliminates consumer choice and crop diversity.

When diversity is destroyed we paint ourselves in to a corner and then what happens?. One unknown factor or unforeseen mutation and then what? The entire US crop of corn dies? (Happened with a bunch of GMO crops in S. Africa, and also in India ). Our corn actually becomes toxic? (Already debate about that ). Under what circumstances is that smart? Do these people not study biology and species extinction?

If you want to grow tomatoes genetically mixed with squid ink, you should have that choice...as long as your squidmatos don't contaminate my crop across the field. What happened with gmo corn was people grew gmo and they contaminated the fields next to them. Then Monsanto SUED the guy who now had the contaminated corn for stealing their patent!!! What the FRACK!?!?

Now lets say squidmato seller does manage to grow his crops without contaminating mine. We both go to market and he has his baskets of squidmatos and I have my baskets of Baker Creek seed heirloom Black Plum tomatoes. I price mine at $3/basket. He prices his at $2. I then put up a placard that my tomatoes are heritage, squid-free and contain no GMOs. In an ideal world, people would then decide if they want to pay less for squidmatos or more for a heritage tomato. Instead what we have seen in the case of dairy is the GMO company that makes the products brings out a whole army of lawyers and then sues.
http://www.naturalnews.com/028716_GMOs_food_labels.html

Can GMO be a good thing? Maybe. But based on the past, I will stick with real food that might turn brown if I am not careful.


*Corporate greed is NOT capitalism. It is an abuse of capitalism. Corporations working in concert with gvnmt isn't capitalism either. A free packet of seeds out of my personal stash for the first one to correctly identify what that actually is

 

[Jared77]

The technology for this was actually developed for potatos. Mr Carter has a license to use it for apples. It is GMO in that it "turns off" a gene that produces an enzyme, polyphenol oxidase, that makes apples and potatoes turn brown when cut, bruised. It is present in quite a lot of fruits.

For what though? Why would we need an apple or potato that doesn't bruise or brown? Whats next bananas that don't brown either? These things happen for a reason. So are they trying to increase the shelf life by not having these enzymes start to breakdown our fruit? Or is it purely for looks and we need another way to know if our foods are past their prime?

 

[bid]

At it's simplest, it is designed to increase commercial profits. From the grower to the shipper to the end user (which is ultimately the consumer, but would include restaurants, food services and individuals) IMO. Yes it is for looks. It is also designed to help reduce spoilage. Shelf life is already extended in many ways. But think of it this way- you have a choice of two apples that are the same in every way with one exception. One is bruised and has brown spots on it, the other is unblemished. Which one do you choose? These may be or may not be GMO apples.

 

[wifezilla]

GMO fruit could be old and their nutrition degraded, but you can't tell because they didn't start to discolor or soften.