Cloned Animals coming to dinner? (Read 809 times)

I hear all that cloned food tastes the same anyways...

We have a winner. Your check is in the mail.

In the US, we have already genetically selected (by choosing who to breed) produce and animals for the largest, least tasty, least healthful, longest shelf-life, most milk-producting, most eggs-laid per hour, etc. It is amazing to go to another country where a cucumber actually tastes like something other than water (and is not shiny and enormous), apples are not all bright and red and perfectly symmetrical, all produce in general is much smaller, looks like it actually grew on a tree rather than in a factory, and has much, much more flavor. (And it looks ugly. Until you get used to the fact that an orange is not meant to resemble the shape of a tennis ball.) And getting used to the fact that strawberries are only availble during strawberry season (which is just starting here, but is the summer in the US. Not Jan-December as our grocery stores would make you think!!!) I will also comment that fruits and veg's here are 3-4 times cheaper than in the US. It took me a while to realize that that pepper is 4 shekels (~$1), not 4 dollars. And apples are 2-3 shekels per pound, not 2-3 dollars. I will be looking into Trent's CSA this summer.