Summer use to mean good vegetables and watermelon (Update)
Tonight I ate a dish of lettuce, a few olives topped with Italian dressing. There was no tomato nor cucumber on the plate. Since I seldom ware my teeth when eating at home, I forgo having difficult to chew cucumber on my plate with my lettuce and it is not so bad due to the fact cucumbers don’t taste like they use to taste “back in the day”. Back in the day I use to peel and slice’em, sprinkling a generous amount of salt on them to bring out more flavor and toss them on my lettuce heap in about ten to twenty minutes or so.
It is the tomato I miss most of all! Whatever the variety of tomato, in my opinion, it is the tomato that makes a plate of lettuce, olives and Italian dressing a salad. Without the tomato, all I envision is an assortment of lettuce with something else added to it; not anything I would honor by calling a (gasp) salad.
I have tasted the so called organic tomato, the vine ripened one and so on and so on, but the tomato that I remember no longer exist, at least not at the commercial markets I frequent.
It is my understanding Monsanto Seed Company is messin’ wif me and my love of a good tomato. My understanding is the seed company has something to do with genetically engineering seeds distributed worldwide combined with procedures for lack of fertilizers during the growing season and a whole bunch of stuff. If this is indeed the case and is the major reason my tomato no longer taste good to me, then I do not have nice things to say about the Monsanto Seed Company.
And then there is the watermelon. A fruit no longer having a defining flavor. To me there is little difference between the taste of watermelon and an equally tasteless cantaloupe or banana. I note the banana no longer even smells like a banana. These fruits may look differently but to me, they all lack one major characteristic; they are devoid of defining flavors!
There is no way a human body can extract from these fruits what the body needs to maintain itself so it needs booster shots of insulin to bypass the natural resistance of our body’s protecting elements. I wonder if the reason obese people are so fat now-a-days is due to the fact they are getting such small amounts of ingredients, if any, their bodies need to properly function as intended, so they have to over-eat the Monsanto products to compensate their body needs thereby setting off alternate chain reactions?
As to the effect of Monsanto foods on our digestive track, there are a whole lot of people effected with colon problems and conditions we never heard of in the old days. I don’t think they existed! I often smile thinking about having to take insulin everytime I have to eat foods that caused me having to take insulin in the first place. It‘s a real trip!
Finally, whoever controls our food chain in designating countries to grow foods that is not native to that country. I am mindful a few years back India had to call in specialist to save a watermelon crop. India? Watermelon? What happened to “Negroes and the South?” I am also mindful the massive growing of pineapples in Hawaii and bananas in the Caribbean has also been shifted to other countries. New World Order? You bet’cha! Booo!
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
Variations on a theme…….
(Update)
Monsanto Submitted "Fake Scientific Data" Says Former Exec
by dsnodgrass
Excerpt:
Monsanto's former managing directior of India operations is talking, and it's not pretty for the behemoth of genetic modification. Tiruvadi Jagadisan is accusing his former employer of faking scientific data with the intent of evading the government's regulatory requirements.
Read more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/19/838659/-Monsanto-Submitted-Fake-Scientific-Data-Says-Former-Exec
And
Don’t hasten introduction of Bt brinjal: M.S. Swaminathan
Excerpt:
“Brinjal is consumed throughout one’s life. It’s a vegetable of very widespread consumption. Therefore what will be the chronic effect? Brinjal,(eggplant) there is so much of variability in the country. Will that variability and the biodiversity be destroyed by growing one or two varieties of brinjal in the place of numerous [varieties]? What happens if the resistance breaks down? We would have then lost our bio-diversity. Are steps being taken?” Dr. Swaminathan said.
Read more at:
http://beta.thehindu.com/sci-tech/agriculture/article98332.ece
Hat tip to diarist Bronxist
It is the tomato I miss most of all! Whatever the variety of tomato, in my opinion, it is the tomato that makes a plate of lettuce, olives and Italian dressing a salad. Without the tomato, all I envision is an assortment of lettuce with something else added to it; not anything I would honor by calling a (gasp) salad.
I have tasted the so called organic tomato, the vine ripened one and so on and so on, but the tomato that I remember no longer exist, at least not at the commercial markets I frequent.
It is my understanding Monsanto Seed Company is messin’ wif me and my love of a good tomato. My understanding is the seed company has something to do with genetically engineering seeds distributed worldwide combined with procedures for lack of fertilizers during the growing season and a whole bunch of stuff. If this is indeed the case and is the major reason my tomato no longer taste good to me, then I do not have nice things to say about the Monsanto Seed Company.
And then there is the watermelon. A fruit no longer having a defining flavor. To me there is little difference between the taste of watermelon and an equally tasteless cantaloupe or banana. I note the banana no longer even smells like a banana. These fruits may look differently but to me, they all lack one major characteristic; they are devoid of defining flavors!
There is no way a human body can extract from these fruits what the body needs to maintain itself so it needs booster shots of insulin to bypass the natural resistance of our body’s protecting elements. I wonder if the reason obese people are so fat now-a-days is due to the fact they are getting such small amounts of ingredients, if any, their bodies need to properly function as intended, so they have to over-eat the Monsanto products to compensate their body needs thereby setting off alternate chain reactions?
As to the effect of Monsanto foods on our digestive track, there are a whole lot of people effected with colon problems and conditions we never heard of in the old days. I don’t think they existed! I often smile thinking about having to take insulin everytime I have to eat foods that caused me having to take insulin in the first place. It‘s a real trip!
Finally, whoever controls our food chain in designating countries to grow foods that is not native to that country. I am mindful a few years back India had to call in specialist to save a watermelon crop. India? Watermelon? What happened to “Negroes and the South?” I am also mindful the massive growing of pineapples in Hawaii and bananas in the Caribbean has also been shifted to other countries. New World Order? You bet’cha! Booo!
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-SPAN and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
Variations on a theme…….
King Obesity
By RALPH NADER
Excerpt:
King Obesity sat grandly on a huge hassock atop a throne composed of solidified animal fat surveying his domain. The last thirty years have been bullish for Obesity, during which the number of seriously overweight children in America tripled. Eating fat, sugary and salty food while sitting for hours daily looking at video screens, being bused to and from school, and not having to bother with physical education, millions of lads and lassies were following orders.
Read more at:
http://counterpunch.com/nader02182010.html
(Update)
Monsanto Submitted "Fake Scientific Data" Says Former Exec
by dsnodgrass
Excerpt:
Monsanto's former managing directior of India operations is talking, and it's not pretty for the behemoth of genetic modification. Tiruvadi Jagadisan is accusing his former employer of faking scientific data with the intent of evading the government's regulatory requirements.
Read more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/19/838659/-Monsanto-Submitted-Fake-Scientific-Data-Says-Former-Exec
And
Don’t hasten introduction of Bt brinjal: M.S. Swaminathan
Excerpt:
“Brinjal is consumed throughout one’s life. It’s a vegetable of very widespread consumption. Therefore what will be the chronic effect? Brinjal,(eggplant) there is so much of variability in the country. Will that variability and the biodiversity be destroyed by growing one or two varieties of brinjal in the place of numerous [varieties]? What happens if the resistance breaks down? We would have then lost our bio-diversity. Are steps being taken?” Dr. Swaminathan said.
Read more at:
http://beta.thehindu.com/sci-tech/agriculture/article98332.ece
Hat tip to diarist Bronxist
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