Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for July 26, 2021

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    Concretionist  over 3 years ago

    Humans have been bioengineering food and decorative plants and food, pet and work animals… for a LONG time. The techniques have recently begun changing…

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    pschearer Premium Member over 3 years ago

    The best of all worlds.

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 3 years ago

    “Oh yeah. We do it ourselves. Got a table set up in the back of the barn. We can whip up whatever you need.”

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    Wilde Bill  over 3 years ago

    “They are grown locally, but we buy the seeds from Monsanto.”

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    Farside99  over 3 years ago

    We artificially inseminate every one.

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    dcandmx  over 3 years ago

    Is it halibut or swordfish DNA in those tomatoes?

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I used to help a farmer selling great tomatoes at the farmer’s market… I got paid in produce.

    Wonderful, backyard varieties, from a very small farm, here in Northern California, but a sunnier area.

    Hand picked that morning…. not certified organic, but grown without pesticides or artificial fertilizers… vine ripe and delicious.

     

    Every Wednesday he drove almost 200 miles to sell them here.

    Yes, a lot of gas… but our local tomatoes were still months from ripe, and tasteless supermarket tomatoes in May can be from as far away as Peru or even China.

     

    Nearly every week, some so-called “locavore” would turn up his/her nose, because they weren’t grown within an arbitrary distance… usually 50 miles.

    I love to ask them whether they eat peanut butter, or drink coffee or tea.

    And what they’d eat in the winter, if they lived in New Hampshire or Maine.

     

    It seems the rules only apply to fresh produce…

    Its OK if the wheat in their bread comes from Kansas or Iowa…

    and their whisky all the way from Scotland.

    But a hardworking young farmer from the lush Central Valley isn’t supposed to sell them a great tomato, or make a living,

     

    Modern food distribution has saved many a starving population on this planet… let’s not go back to the 15th century,

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    Doug K  over 3 years ago

    “They are tomatoes. These we picked these ourselves. We bought the starter plants at the grocery store. That’s it.”

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    backyardcowboy  over 3 years ago

    Yes, that’s why I’m wearing Genes.

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    dflak  over 3 years ago

    Tomatoes are sold by the pound, so they have been artificially selected to be heavy with water – and that’s what they taste like: water. Have you ever noticed that they all look almost exactly alike? You might as well pay for an equivalent sized bag of water.

    I remember as a kid, eating a tomato sandwich and it tasting like something.

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    Zebrastripes  over 3 years ago

    Oy!

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    The Reader Premium Member over 3 years ago

    We don’t sell anything that isn’t made in this galaxy.

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    WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Yes – they’re kind of free range. They’ve been to the lab and back again.

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    Zen-of-Zinfandel  over 3 years ago

    They’re guaranteed to taste savory and meaty.

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    Teto85 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Local, from our beds, and heirloom instead of the tasteless, mushy red things they sell in grocery store and call tomatoes because that’s what they look like. Lovely purples ready for picking.

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    PO' DAWG  over 3 years ago

    I remember a local farmer would set up a serve yourself table with tomato and onion, not any more. They would even steal his Honesty Jar. People ruined it, or some people ruined it, he grew some very delicious produce.

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