PLUMS Aires Raised in a village characterized by excellent fruit, from very young I've been a consumer of fruits "at the bottom of the tree." In the back of my house growing species with fruits and flowers: hibiscus, figs, tomatoes, peaches and plums. In other houses in the neighborhood are also many other growing grapes, apricots, mandarin oranges. As harvest time each neighborhood solidarity was to be distributed.
One of my favorite was the plum trees, wearing giant like presiding over the garden, and beyond the end of August was filled with white flowers produced an alleged falling snow amid a chorus of buzzing bees, hornets and wasps.
This forced cohabitation gave me invaluable experience: see the "natural cycle plum, flowering and pollination and fleshy green growth of the fruit and the desired end of November beginning of the color of ripeness in the fruit. The advance made in December to start taking a deep purple, which heralded greater sweetness y. .. Most bugs swarming to get their food. They swallowed plum
our fill. The tree was so huge that my father managed to transform it into dried for the winter, my mother, I added sugar and jam produced bound the whole family.
In short, it is obvious that if we let nature take action, we have good plums just a few days during December. But this 2010
comes astounding. Plums fruit shops began to visit in February, and continue to plump in April. But they are "rare", huge, meaty and delicious, although very little similar to those of my childhood. Some are giants such as peaches, compact fleshy, juicy.
What happened to the plums? Watch it on the oracle of Google, I know little beyond the transgenics assigned the Wikipedia, where I extracted the photo accompanies this post. So I called Roland, my friend, agronomist, usually involved in processes of GM foods, and I repeated this story here, with my doubts.
- are transgenic course! "I said as if I was a fool who did not understand, what I can not clear is what fruit of all that is in the fruit shops is no longer ...
- And is it true that bad? I added to highlight how much more I can be silly.
- Look, if you were a journalist I would say no, I work on this. But what are my friend I can assure you I do not know. Do not know. Sincerely, think are not bad. Consume these products ourselves, and we are not suicidal. But what about long term relationships with its intensive use, it will tell the truth.
- I imagine that, somewhere, must have only rabbits eating GM food testing. Poor rabbits, but it was always done: to risk their lives before our own.
- Sure you do. But so far there is no meaningful data. So moving the transgenics, which is why environmentalists are also grounds to argue against, is that no definitive proof.
- Of course I remember that the evidence on the harmfulness of cigarettes have also bought many years. That may also be a similar case, or worse, because smoking is an enlightened choice by adult consumers. The food, however, consume it all in good faith to feed, including the much-battered population "at risk" as sick children or elderly.
- The fact is that anyone still has any concrete evidence against Rolando, calm thought.
As disturbing conclusion: I just saw some plums in the grocery store even larger than it had been until yesterday.
