I just saw a news story about tomatoes that shocked me.
Years ago, the tomato was genetically altered. The new form was more resistant to disease. It is now the main tomato sold by most everyone.
Have ya’ noticed the loss in flavor ? How about the inner fruit having a hard root system ?
Now, the older versions of tomatoes are refered to as ‘Heirloom’ tomatoes.
They are harder to grow, rot quicker, and YET~~~they have a flavor that has been lost by the hybrid tomatoes !
What surprized me the most, was how it was kept secret that tomatoes have been genetically altered.
And I gotta tell ya’…I surely have noticed the loss of flavor.
absolutely agree with you buddy… I’ve also observed that… too sad and too bad…
But there’s a particular place in our country selling a non-hybrid tomatoes and organic fertilizer… the taste is good and we usually go there just to buy it…
Speaking of tomatoes~
I just love grape tomatoes. So many of my friends haven’t tried them til I tell then about them. There aren’t anything like cherry tomatoes. They are firmer & sweeter.
Last year I grew a grape tomato plant in a pot on my patio. The first batch of tomatoes were the greatest. Sadly I learned that the second & third harvests from potted tomato plants grow ever increasingly bitter.
Well, since I brought up Grape Tomatoes, I got to thinking.
Fact is, I was lucky. The very first time I bought them, they were great. But ya’ know what…Several times I’ve bought a pint of grape tomatoes, and they were a touch sour.
Point is, if ya’ buy em & try em, and it doesn’t seem sweet, give them another try.
By the way, I keep a container of grape tomatoes in my kitchen, and each time I walk thru the kitchen, I grab one or two to just munch on.
Curbs hunger, and they’re good for ya’.
I’ve heard them adding the dna of other things such as a north atlantic fish that has its own natural antifreeze. They’re putting the dna of that with tomatoes so you can grow them in the cold and in strawberries also so they can be grown in the cold also. Wish they’d leave the veggies and fruit alone
HALF ? er…doncha mean all !
Here a brief exert from “The Luther Burbank Biography”;
Luther Burbank is widely regarded as the father of modern plant breeding. Beginning in 1870, Luther Burbank developed more than 800 new strains of fruits, vegetables, flowers and grasses; his ideas in general, and many of his hybrids in particular, were important to the revolution in agriculture and food production in the 20th century. One of his earliest creations was the Burbank potato, a blight-resistant crop which was heavily planted in Ireland. Luther Burbank began his career in Massachusetts but spent most of his working life in Santa Rosa, California, where his home is now a National Historic Landmark.
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Since way prior to 1870’s, man has been altering our foods. It’s just that L. Burbank was great at it.
Rathering than wondering what foods you’ve had that have been altered, ya’ should pronder what foods you’ve had that haven’t been altered.
I often laugh at how most think ‘enriched’ is a good term. Way back when, they found that by leeching all of the nutrition out of such things as sugar, flours, rice, etc., that bugs wouldn’t even bother to infest them while being stored. They did such a good job at removing any food value from those products, that consuming them would actually leech vitamins from your system, thus now those products are ‘enriched’ with vitamins to keep us from getting sick when consuming them.
Haven’t ya’ ever wondered that why although they add b-vitamins to them, that they are actually low sources of the vitamins (Usually less than 8% per serving) ?
Believe me, none of us living now, have any idea of what many foods tasted like prior to the 1900’s…
Well, I’m bumping this thread back up coz this has gotton just plain stupid.
I recently bought a hero sandwich, called a Romanburger. I’ve not had one for many years. Well, its flavor impact was ruined by the lack of tomato flavor that their tomatoes now have.
I recently saw a post by Kitchen Witch refering to the lack of flavor the tomato had on her Whopper.
So i began to wonder. Surely the new tomatoes being offerred at retail, couldn’t be the ones being used in making canned tomato product, coz theres no way they could mantain the same flavor with these hybrid tomatoes.
So I sent an email to Hunt’s to ask. I was assured that they are not using the same tomatoes that are currently being marketed.
Now, Heirloom Tomatoes are hitting the market. These are the same flavorable tomatoes that we were all buying back in the 1980’s and prior. Except now they cost 3 times as much.
The new hybrid tomatoes last up to 3 times as long on grocers shelfs. So its taken over the retail markets, even though they lack flavor and have a greenish core with rock hard roots running thru them.
Thus, its the retailers pushing for the slower rotting tomatoes, even though they have lost taste. Yet, the canning industry is still relying upon the older flavorable tomatoes.
I SAY ITS TIME FOR A TOMATO BOYCOTT. I even tried seaching the net to see if it already exists, but it doesn;'t except to boycott Taco Bell suppliers, which is over.
DOESN’T IT MATTER TO AMERICAN CONSUMERS THAT RETAILERS ARE FORCING LOUSY GENETICALLY ALTERED TOMATOES ON US ? ? ?
I figure I should add; Yes, Heirloom tomatoes do cost more now, coz many farmers switched to hybrids coz of the retailers demands for slower rotting tomatoes. Yet the market price of Heirloom tomatoes hasn’t increased for canned goods. But its us, the retail costumers that are suffering the lack of flavor.
The wholesale market for Heirloom tomatoes has not tripled for the growers, but it has at the retail level because retailers don’t want to spend the effort to mantain Heirloom (normal) tomatoes. The retailers have reaped great profits by selling us genetically altered tomatoes, and not telling us. How many have over the last few years, just thought their tomatoes weren’t ripe enough, or they picked out the wrong ones ? I know I did, until I found out about the switch to the lack-of-flavor hybrids.
Once these hybrids are rejected by the consumer, I can assure you that the normal tomato market will return.
Isn’t it time for the consumers to say ‘NO’, we aren’t gonna buy these tasteless hard core tomatoes any more. ?
Until we do, they are gonna keep selling them to us, and thus farmers are gonna keep switching to hybrid crops, coz the dumb consumers keep buying them ! ! !
That’s what its gonna take. No supermarket is gonna keep stocking hybrid tomatoes that don’t sell. But its gonna take all of us to stop buying those crappy tasteless, hard core tomatoes. If no one buys them, Heirlooms will become the norm again.
THE STUPID SUBWAY BMT SUB I BOUGHT TONITE, TASTED LIKE CRAP WITHOUT GOOD TOMATOES !
Consumers have power, but not till they exert it…
AND LET ME TELL YA’S WHAT THEY DO TO FOODS THAT ATTRACT BUGS. THEY BLEACH THEM, LIKE RICE, FLOUR, SUGAR, ETC. THIS KEEPS BUGS FROM INFESTING THESE STORED ITEMS COZ THEY HAVE NO FOOD VALUE LEFT.
Thus its now so with your tomatoes. Bugs and bacteria(which cause rot), don’t even wanna bother with these genetically alter tomatoes. That loss of flavor, is the end to real tomatoes.
This won’t exist, if we all refuse to buy them.
I will not buy any tomato from here on out. I no longer care how great those vine tomatoes look, coz I know they taste like crap !