Farmers Market Tomatoes, by Isa Sorensen (Mapless In Seattle)
'GMOs aren’t the only nasty thing from Agribusiness. Breeding for mass production instead of taste and nutrition has cost us. Little produce in supermarkets has flavor worth the trouble of eating, & the lack of nutrition is destroying health.'
'Now think about this. There are two broad categories of tomatoes.
Type 1 is full of nutrition and flavor, but this type ripens inconsistently, and comes in all kinds of colour shades, shapes and textures.
Type 2 looks perfectly shaped, is in a uniform color, shows perfect behavior and ripens uniformly, but it also happens to have no flavor and little nutrition.
If you were a big US grocery chain, even a purportedly organic one, which type of tomato would you stock?
If you guessed Type 2, you would be right, and you would also solve the mystery of why not only American tomatoes, but the vast majority of fruits and vegetables in the USA have no flavor and are less nutritious compared to fruits and vegetables found in, say, a much-poorer country like India.'\
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