Comment on Health food

• Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If it’s GMO and still suck, they need to GMO harder.

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  • robotica@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or just not GMO at all, it depends on what type of strawberries exist in the world already. I have noticed that the more “marketable” strawberries look, the less sweet and more acidic they taste, unlike strawberries that are grown by your grandma, which look like ass sometimes, but man, are they tasty! Can’t say about pesticides and stuff like that, or if they even are GMO, and also I live in Europe.

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    • Lulzagna@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Come to Canada and eat any of our supermarket strawberries, they’re disgusting.

      One of my Italian tour guides last year was so confused when I explained how our produce is nothing like what they have there. Strawberries are sour, not juicy, and white inside.

      We do have some good local strawberries during the summer. This is why, to us, GMO is a bad thing

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      • robotica@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I would dare to say that the Mediterranean has the best fresh produce in the world (not biased, I’m from the north).

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  • Lulzagna@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Genuine question, where are you from?

    Where I’m from GMO is used to prevent ripening and damage during transportation which results in weak tasting and tough produce that can survive long distance transportation.

    GMO has negative effects too, it’s ignorant to think otherwise.

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• Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nearly all produce is GMO and has been for centuries. Do you really want to go back to the days of 17th-century watermelon?

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Selective breeding and GMO are completely different.

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• TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pretty much everything g we eat is “GMO” because that’s how agriculture works, we selectively grow the most productive plants

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  • Lulzagna@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is true. I should have specified that geographically GMO is a bad thing here because it’s typically associated with creating hard tasteless produce that can survive long haul transportation

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    • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You mean to say it’s stigmatized as a bad thing, and I’d accept that.

      There’s an apple called Cosmic Crisp that has to be the worst thing I’ve seen come from the Honeycrisp variant of apple. Genuinely just awful taste and texture, like it’s got sand in it.

      That being said, these are only a problem at supermarkets. Farmers markets are hard carries and don’t typically have the ‘grown for shelf life’ produce you see at your typical Walmart.

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      • Lulzagna@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        100%

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No.

    [GMOs are organisms (apart from human beings) whose genetic material has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination.](…europa.eu/…/genetically-modified-organisms-gmo.h…

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• cheddar@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Then don’t… buy them?

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• Leg@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Find a better term than GMO to describe what makes food suck. You might as well be saying that science makes food suck. Like…yeah, sure, sometimes. But that’s incredibly vague and accomplishes nothing for you.

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  • Lulzagna@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, it’s still GMO. My usage was vague, that’s on me.

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