Every seed is sacred
Every seed is great
If a seed is wasted
God gets quite irate!
Seedless Catholics Against Watermelons?
Submitted 7 months ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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samus12345@lemmy.world 7 months ago
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
What’s wrong with seedless watermelons? Are GMOs forbidden by Christian law?
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
probably same reason why some are anti birth control. kinda playing against gods role by manipulating the natural result.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Should someone tell them why watermelons are so big a delicious in the first place?
Neato@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
They need to learn about bananas.
Also like, 100% of all agriculture and livestock. Fuck. Look at what we did to wolves. If god didn’t want us to fuck around with genetics they wouldn’t have made them malleable.
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 7 months ago
It makes priest horny for castrated choir boys.
niucllos@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Funny thing is they aren’t even GMOs, they’re hybrids between tetraploid and diploid watermelon cultivars. You could do it yourself in your backyard if you can find tetraploid seed for sale, or make it yourself with colchicine
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I wonder if they are also against pepper mint.
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 7 months ago
🎼 Every seed is sacred / every seed is good… 🎶
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
My parents hate GMO everything because it contains liberal mind control chemicals that turn people trans.
Neon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
i hate GMO because it often is unhealthy and often is unethical (sterile so the farmers have to buy new seeds every year instead of being able to use the seeds that came off of their harvest)
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
My deepest condolences.
starman@programming.dev 7 months ago
Are GMOs forbidden by Christian law?
No, AFAIK they aren’t
I think it’s just a joke and not a real movement or something
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Seeded Catholic altar boys against Catholicism
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I dunno, while I support everyone’s right to their own beliefs, some of their past actions and even current doctrine do not sit well with me.
The Catholics aren’t much better.
lugal@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Exactly. How long will watermelons keep silent about the genocide?
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
The genoseed hasn’t been talked about enough.
TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Catholic watermelons against seeds
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I too will be joining the seedless watermelons against Catholics.
Who do they think they are?
hexabs@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Seedy folk, that’s for sure
GladiusB@lemmy.world 7 months ago
To be fair seedless watermelons suck
The_v@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Now why seedless watermelons suck is an interesting story.
The first intentional creation of a seedless watermelon was done in 1939 in Japan. University breeding programs in the southern U.S. after WWII began using the technology to create the first hybrids. In the early '50’s and '60’s multiple tetraploids were created by the university programs and released to private companies to produce seed with.
These tetraploid lines were “greys”. “Greys” were selected to have a thick hard rind for long distance shipping. They were barely red on the inside and tasted slightly bitter. They all sucked for flavor.
A seedless watermelon hybrid is made by crossing a tetraploid female by a diploid male. The resulting hybrid (triploid) has 3 copies of every chromosome and is sterile.
Fertile stable tetraploids take a long time to create - around 15 generations of you are lucky. Seedless watermelons also took a long time to gain popularity in the market. So nobody put significant money or time into creating more tetraploid inbreds for over 40 years.
From the 1980’s when seedless watermelons were introduced until around 2010, everyone used those shitty old tetraploids as 2/3rds of the hybrid. Since 2010 companies have created new tetraploid to use, but a significant portion still use 70 year old shitty ones.
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JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Is it bad that I scrolled to make sure it wasn’t a shittymorph before I decided to read the rest?
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That’s extremely interesting, thank you for sharing it!
Shadowedcross@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I didn’t even know seedless watermelons were a thing, so it saddens me to discover that they are, and that they’re bad, since the main reason I don’t like watermelons is having to deal with the seeds.
The_v@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They are not all bad. In the early 2000’s a breeder created a logistical method create tetraploids in 6 years (5 generations every 2 years). He used 3 countries to do it in if I recall correctly.
He integrated some of the small seeded deep red fleshed Chinese germplasm combined with the old flavorful allsweet types to make dramatically improved tetraploids.
Other companies have followed suit and the average quality of the fruit has improved. Some of the newer ones have really excellent flavor.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They do. I had this conversation the other day, and it led to Bill Gates trying to to basically monopolize farming. It was right before a five-hour meeting and so I forgot to research it at all after, but you have just reminded me.
Back on topic though, I can’t find seedless watermelons anywhere. I live in Jersey (New), and my local supermarket is and has been seedless for at least a decade. I can’t recall the last time I enjoyed watermelon with a seed. My presumption was that they’re stopping us from growing them at home. I’m sure it’s much more (or less) nuanced than that. I’m an idiot.
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Watermelons are not true to seed- a watermelon grown from a collected seed will not necessarily resemble it’s parent. But surprise melons are fun! Usually not as sweet as those with carefully controlled genetics though.
The_v@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s all about profits. Seedless watermelons usually sell better with American consumers.
In order to produce fruit on triploid watermelons there has to be regular seeded (diploid) varieties in the field. Traditionally they would use a large oblong traditional seeded (allsweet types). Mainly because there was a market for them and they looked different than the seedless varieties.
The growers had to dedicate 1/5th of their acres to growing a seeded melons which they could sell at 50% or less than seedless varieties.
That’s when seed companies introduced dedicated pollinators (non-harvested). These untilized several different dwarf genes and could be interplanted with seedless varities with no loss of space.
With the exception of the big party markets like the 4th of July, most fields utilize the dedicated pollinators in the U.S. now. For production in Latin America, they export the seedless ones to the U.S. and sell the seeded ones l ones domestically.
Bottom line, today you only occasionally seeded watermelons in grocery stores in the U.S. and Canada.
stiephel@feddit.de 7 months ago
Nah, they don’t really care about gardeners. They need farmers to buy new seeds every year.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Still better than the alternative
GladiusB@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What alternative? Regular watermelons? I disagree. Regular is 10 times better.
Allonzee@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If God doesn’t want us fucking with their creations, they’re more than welcome to hold a press conference…
samus12345@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“If that is okay, please give me absolutely no sign.”
…
“Thy will be done.”
frezik@midwest.social 7 months ago
Where’s the group for being against Catholics and watermelons?
Aceticon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Seeds Against Watermellons and Catholics?
PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Catholic Watermelons vs Seed
trolololol@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Watermelons against seedless Catholics
Killing_Spark@feddit.de 7 months ago
Get ratio’ed
Etterra@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s the very least that they deserve.
Etterra@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m pretty sure there aren’t any eunuchs around anymore. Otherwise there would still be castrati.
Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well no voluntary eunuchs
danc4498@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Are they both troll groups?
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Nope, seedless is against their gods will.
yannic@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Yes.
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
NO CUM
citrusface@lemmy.world 7 months ago
elliot_crane@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I like how the watermelons have a whole 10K more likes. Let’s go watermelons!
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
66% more likes!