Re: Have you notice the changes taken place in your food?
- From: Larry Caldwell <larryc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:12:50 GMT
In article <1129471064.994962.79460@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
tinacci336@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (tinacci336@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) says...
> Has any one noticed how the marketing of food has more or less became a
> greedy race -"to get there first" and "milk the consumer to the hilt".
> Quality as to taste and usefulness has gone out the window. This has
> taken place over a period of time to where many people today don't
> realize what has came about. One recent thing that I have notice in the
> last six months is with eggs. Have you noticed how suddenly the old hen
> has changed the size of the egg she lays. What use to be a 'medium
> size' is now a 'large size' when it gets put in the carton. The price
> is still the same. In other words your getting less and still paying
> the price.
> Another item is how through the years produce has been placed on the
> market before it is matured. Been artificially so called "ripened" and
> put on counter for sale, though it is still unmatured as to taste and
> texture. Tomatoes are a good example. Todays marketed fruit has no
> taste or texture in compareness to that which ripens naturally. This is
> all because each supplier is trying to beat the other to market and the
> consumer suffers the action. I'd like to see everyone to quit buying
> any "fresh" produce just for a week and let the "green stuff" rot on
> the counter shelf.
It sounds like you have been buying your food in stores. If you buy
store bought food, you need to shop carefully. Recently, canned food
has been selling 3 cans for $1 as they clear out warehouses for the new
crop. This is an annual event. Frozen produce has the same cycle -
there is only so much freezer space, and when they new crop comes in
they have to sell the old stuff or dump it. Fresh frozen vegetables
actually have more nutrients than cold storage, and often taste better.
However, if you want quality fresh produce, you have to eat what is
locally grown. America's cheap food policy and the big food monoliths
have just about wiped out specialty food shops, but you can still find
some supermarkets that buy local produce for their shelves. Cities used
to be surrounded by truck farms, which have also been hurt badly, but a
few are surviving as farm gate produce stands or by selling at farmer's
markets.
> This practice has so slowly been brought about that a great majority of
> consumers, today, don't really know how, matured, ripen produce is
> suppose to taste. There is a big difference.
Most people don't know what a chicken or an egg is supposed to taste
like, or milk for that matter. I still remember my first taste of store
bought milk. My reaction was, "What the hell is THAT?" I was six years
old, and thought milk came out of a cow.
> Having to buy and eat inmatured produce does not have to be with todays
> transportation system what it is. Produce can be picked one day in
> Califoria and be transported and on the grocery shelf in New York City
> four days later. Instead now it lays in whare-houses days and weeks
> being "artifically matured."
That's the way it has to be, if you want eleven illiterate Mexicans to
pack and ship all the produce consumed in your city. It's cheaper, and
when people are presented with two vegetables that look the same, they
will buy the cheaper one every time.
> Another thing which is having a bad effecy and will grow worse as time
> goes by is the genic manipulation of plants and animals. Personally I
> believe it should be stopped or very tightly controlled, or you are
> going to be forced to munch on a varity of taste-less junk.
Feeding has more to do with flavor than genetics in animals. In plants,
genetic manipulation might actually give us a tasty cold storage tomato
someday. Mostly, Roundup-Ready vegetables can be produced using far
fewer applications of herbicide, yielding a cheaper crop. Flavor is
adjustable, if it is not satisfactory.
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