Fresh tomato

empirex said:
Absolutely! How can you not like tomatoes.
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But what about all the pesticides Alex Jones says they're using on tomatoes to poison us? And surely he's had something to say about BPA by now?

:D
 
Those chemtrails also poison rain water, so organic are out for Empirex too...:D
 
DJ... said:
Just taking the piss. It's the first thing people think of when you're around. You've been sure of that with the conspiracy threads. Can't blame a guy...
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A$$ :p

Well what you said is actually partially true though.
The pesticides are in fact designed to kill. It's a deliberate attempt to reduce population, through both a direct, and slow-kill method.

The insect population that is ;)
 
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DJ... said:
Problem is most of what we get in supermarkets as tomatoes have close to zero flavour. Because they're very perishable products and consumers complained of them going off to quickly, they now stock hybrids and pick them long before maturity. In fact they pick them green and turn them red with a quick ethylene compound gassing. I call them holocaust tomatoes because of this, and because they hardly have any nutrients in them. No comment about the flavour with this metaphor.

The problem with this entire process is that although they're bright red and the right firmness, they have close to no flavour resembling that of a tomato whatsoever and the texture is mealy. They also cultivate them to produce less sugar as this aids degradation of the tomato, so they're hardly ever sweet, which they should be.

Best bet is to ditch perishables shopping at your supermarket and find a local green-grocer to supply you with decent veg. Fresh fruit is nearly always ripened with ethylene so that they have a longer shelf life, but the problem is that the the vast majority of the them do not ripen properly once picked, so they use ethylene to change the colour to resemble that of a ripened fruit...
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I have a farmer buddy at work that only grows tomatoes.
You are right on much of the above and then some.

Sometimes they get bugs they can't kill with vegetable insecticides as well, especially in SA.
That crop does not go to waste....

Another thing I have noticed.
Plant a shop tomato in your garden, let it grow and taste the difference.

This is why I grow my own :)
 
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