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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

How 'Bout Them Apples?


Hahaha, I love it when I can find an excuse to use and abuse Steven Tyler! He's such a good sport :)

I read a disturbing news story over the weekend. We are a youth-obsessed culture thanks to Hollyweird. Normal aging is seen as something to be manipulated and even cut away as necessary... Well, we can colour our grey hair, slather ourselves with creams and exercise till the cows come home, but we are still going to get old - and look it! 

Apparently now even our apples must look eternally young and fresh. Despite public resistance a BC apple grower is among a group seeking approval to eventually market GMO apples (they're still in the development stage) with flesh that doesn't turn brown when cut. It's unsightly! Personally, I've found lemon juice quite effective for dealing with this travesty. The thought of apples being genetically modified to prevent browning is unsettling to say the least. The fact that we will eventually see these on our shelves whether we want them or not, is infuriating. What's next... perhaps an apple you eat before bed that delays the aging process... hmmm, sounds like Snow White and that was a poison apple!

24 comments:

  1. Oh man, I hate GMOs so much. I remember being on an airplane with a guy who was one of the lead scientists on GMOs back when they were new and experimental and he could not understand my horror and objections. He thought he was doing something good for the world and I knew he wasn't. It was awful. And a very long plane ride for us both.

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  2. OMgoodness, that apple looks just like Steve Tyler! :)
    I love heirloom seeds, hate GMO's, also mountaintop removal, commercial farms...oh don't get me started!

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  3. It's crazy, isn't it? I can't for the life of me understand why people have become so obsessed with aging. Embrace it. Live life fully. Grow old gracefully. What is wrong with doing that?

    This apple thing is rather frightening. There's no telling what we are doing to our heatlh by modifying what we eat. I also use lemon juice when I need my apple slices to look fresh longer, and it works fine. It's also natural. Unless they start fooling around with the lemons, too....

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  4. Why oh why, can't they just leave things alone? Another reason to grow your own produce if you can.

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  5. Ugh. I am already horrified by half the stuff they put into food to preserve it.

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  6. Steven cracks me up - I bet he's still prancing around in those heels and flicking his hair like a teenager when he's 75 ( not that far away, surely?). I hate all that GM stuff, and I hate the way they try to pull the wool over consumers eyes by making out that it's a brilliant!

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    1. ps love your new header photo!

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    2. Thanks :) I think he looks like he's about to set off on a big adventure!

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  7. Frankenfood marches on. Anyone interested in joining a mob with torches and pitchforks?

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  8. Jane, it is beyond unsettling, it is scary! The youth obsession culture we live in is scary and the constant genetic manipulation of our food even more so. I am a firm believer that a lot of the diseases we se happening more and more have to do with the foods we eat, the genetic manipulation and the pesticides. I still remember when bananas had seeds, you know those little black bits that got stuck in between your teeth. And the stretch and tuck stuff? There is a lady in my building who is so plumped up with fillers and injected with botox that we are not sure she can smile, EVER.

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  9. Its is very disturbing what they are trying to do with our food. In a few years all the grains will have been tampered with. Monsanto apparently owns all the patents on GMO's.
    Scary indeed and not much if anything we can do about it all.

    That Steve Tyler is one interesting fellow!

    I really like your new header, such an interesting leaf and I love the shade of green with the sweet little lady bug on it.

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  10. Well that is the strangest thing! There are so many important things that someone with that many brains and access to that much money could be inventing. Love the apple head!

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  11. I know...some things need to be just left alone...like the Steven Tyler apple!

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  12. I must say...I love Steven Tyler!!! but, GMO's...that's another story. Monsanto...don't like them either. I love my age and I'm old. I made apple heads a long time ago. They were all over my basement. My boys thought they were very scary. hahaha

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  13. That picture made me laugh! It is unfortunate to consider how much rubbish is put into food that is supposed to be good for us.

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  14. Apple Head is funny! GMO apples or anything else are not. I am so opposed to this endless tampering with Mother Nature and destruction of what's natural and good. So an apple turns brown--big deal! People lived with that for millenia. Suddenly now, this is intolerable? Oh wait, there's a pile of money to be made from this by a small group of people!

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  15. I think its best to leave Mother Nature alone...then they would have to do the same thing to pears because, they to turn brown when cut and sliced. One of the reasons is why I didn't like apples as a young child, because my mom would cut them in slices, and they would turn brown...hated the brown apple pieces.

    Now, we realized that simple lemon juice will keep it from turning brown. Steven Tyler is a 'good sport'...even though the apple face resembles him in a 'funny way.'

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  16. Nie podoba mi się, gdy ludzie wtrącają się w przyrodę. Nic dobrego z tego nie wynika, a może wręcz przynieść szkody. Mnie nie przeszkadza, że jabłka brązowieją, ale smakują tak samo. Pozdrawiam.
    I do not like when people interfere with nature. Nothing good can result and may even be detrimental. I do not mind that apples turn brown, but taste the same. Yours.

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  17. Ugh, I hope that doesn't get approved...just another thing we'll have to watch out for. Grumble grumble grumble

    Steven really does look like a dried apple, heeheeh

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  18. Oh no...I'm thinking that all this business with GMO's is not going to go well in the end. As always happens, everything we think is a good thing...we completely overdo. Hence all the people who are now terribly allergic to soy...my elderly mother being one of them. We can hardly find a speck of food that doesn't have it in it. And of course, soy is now almost entirely genetcally altered. Sad.

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  19. i've been looking at your blog recently and it's really great, I really like it!

    Also, I'm going to go against the grain on this post, but hear me out. I think there is a lot of fear about the scientific works especially on the food. Sometimes there are cases when it's kind of creepy, I agree. But there are also pros in genetically modified foods. For example, in this case, tweaking the enzyme production of certain crop can drastically reduce the amount of pesticides, which in turn can prevent the ecological disasters and extinction of certain species in the environment (ex. frog species exposed to pesticides experience abnormal growth on their reproductive systems). But somehow it seems as though some people are just horrified as if this is some abomination of nature or something, which is quite unfair and untrue in a lot of cases. While I can respect differing opinions, it is my personal opinion that American public sometimes have negatively biased views on science (ex. believing that global warming is a hoax despite the fact that there are numerous scientific evidences for decades about the changing climate patterns).

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  20. Sorry, one more comment.
    I definitely agree with you about the youth-obsession culture.

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    1. Thanks for the compliment :)

      I really appreciate you sharing your perspective with me. I can totally concede that scientists have made great strides in the area of crop production - and they are in fact working at swinging the pendulum the other way from our earlier excesses (pesticide use). I just think (in this case for example) they are tinkering needlessly
      (profit driven) and need to leave good enough alone - I don't care if my apple browns after I've bitten into it - the day it doesn't will be surreal and unsettling.

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  21. Not only am I hugely opposed to GMOs, but I cannot believe that as a consumer I can't get the said foods labelled as such. To me this is a basic consumer right, and even though there is plenty of popular support, the lobbying must be more wealthy. Anyhow, I eat mainly organic foods for that reason, never mind that they cost more.

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