I found this rather humorous and bizarre. Why
not just grow heirloom tomatoes? I guess 'they' want the best of both
worlds. At the very least its an admission that the heirloom market is
putting pressure on production agriculture.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120628181729.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120628181729.htm
Is it not an heirlooms characteristics that make it what it is? The fact that heirloom plants usually have very few tomatoes compared to production varieties might make a real difference here.
ReplyDeleteI guess what I got out of this is that they want to have greater production with a better resulting/tasting tomato? I would think that would be great for a large scale commercial farm. But if we just get away from that totally then we can just grow lots of great tasting heirloom tomatoes in our own backyards? I guess this sounds good but i'm going to be growing my own veggies from now on its just to expensive in the stores.
ReplyDeleteI think they feel threatened and they are approaching this all wrong. If it was as simple as having one gene that added 40% more sugars then why are there thousands of heirloom varieties all with different characteristics? Its their genes that make them that way.
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