• Hexbear2 [any]
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    6 months ago

    It's all food, with maybe one exception, honeycrisp apples, but all sub variants of the honeycrisp are worse! In an effort to appeal to mass market, all food is being purposely made more bland. Then you gotta pay more for "high quality tasty food" it's disgusting. Food science is a mistake, return to grandma cross breeding heirlooms.

    • uSSRI [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      It's a result of breeding for shipping across the country and storage too. Heirloom tomatoes could never make it to a grocery store intact. And a demand to eat everything out of season.

      • ElGosso [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        I mean on one hand yes, on the other hand, I don't want to eat salted beef and dried pumpkins all winter like they did pre-refrigeration

        • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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          6 months ago

          It doesn't have to be that way, but intensive/non-local and non-seasonal agriculture requires ecological degradation that is largely ignored. Not to mention the horrid working conditions the people spraying agrochemicals on food have to endure.

          There's plenty of seasonal vegetables in winter, and tons of recipes from cultures that experience harsh winters, too. bean don't require refrigeration, be they canned or dried.

      • glans [it/its]
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        6 months ago

        I'll raise you.

        food science is a broad subject. it includes all kinds of objectively good things like the addition of iodine, folates and other nutrients to food. also it includes sanitation and quality control which are more required under capitalism.

        people talking shit about science in food are advocating for sawdust in bread, spoiled milk and lead just about fucking everywhere.