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According to a chart distributed by the farm, MacIntosh apples ripen by Sept. 1. Fallen and discarded apples crunched underfoot by last weekend...
Recall the Flavr Savr, a tomato bioengineered to ripen on the vine and last months on the shelf. It might have been a huge moneymaker if only the thing had tasted like a tomato. Its maker, Calgene Inc., traded above $20 a share in 1992, but the stock subsequently rotted to $5, and Monsanto Co. has offered to buy the company for $7.25 a share...
...life, but his entire life since grade school--believing that destiny had saved a seat for him. To explain why an unlikable man could carry out such an unlikely ambition, it helps to understand some skills and obsessions that were planted very early. They had a long time to ripen...
...research on its side. The magazine's more recent warnings, they add, have not been similarly grounded in facts or else have made minimal risks seem major ones. In May 1989, CR did a story on the health risks posed by the continued use of the chemical Alar to ripen apples. The piece made news in other magazines and on TV and helped spread alarm about the chemical; eventually, stores took Alar-treated apples off the shelf, costing U.S. apple growers an estimated $100 million in discarded produce. While some, including CR, still maintain that Alar could pose a hazard...
...gene splicers have shown no shortage of imagination. Products in the pipeline include chickens that grow faster on less feed, snap peas that stay sweeter longer, bell peppers with fewer seeds and longer shelf life, pineapples that ripen more uniformly, squash and cucumbers that need less water, corn that requires fewer pesticides and herbicides, grains that have more protein, vegetable oils that are lower in saturated fat, coffee beans that have less caffeine, French fries that absorb less cooking oil and kidney beans that don't cause flatulence...