17 Feb Tue 2009
To IN_Source or OUT-Source our produce? BACK Tracing the Tomato !The untold story!
It is good to know where the TOMATO comes from ..Put a chip in it and try to trace it by our satellite GPS system .Yes?
It Is Good to know what, where and when to grow and eat our fruits and vegies , offcourse, just in case there is a backtrace!
Humans may consume planted potato chips but not the new editions- yet to come- of silicon vally hi-tech implanted chips in our produce, to say and stay within what is politically correct .
Tracing TOMATO,where does it come from in REAL?
Mexico? Close..
In the begining,tomatoes grew WILD in the Andean regions or what is known now as : The Corridor of Ecuador,Peru,Clombia,Bolivia, and Chile.
The Aztecs -not the Incas- were the first to cultivate it and extensively use it in their diets.They called it "XITOMAL".The Spanish Conquisadoros took it back home and spread its seeds among their empire .The Italians discovered its aphrodisiac properties and incorporated it into their national cuisine.The English suspected tomato to be a poison and traced its origin to Italy and banned it as a Poison!
In fact to be unbiased to any one race..in our trace , John Gerard the English Herbalist in his 1592 herbal ,found out that the leaves and stems were poisonous.TRUE!
The UN-INFORMED Executive chef at the Royal palace tossed away both tomato fruit and potato root and cooked instead their green tops !BAN ,BAN,BAN .Poisonous tomatoes decree was born!
Back to our present time of 21 century.Check out LICOPENE in tomato as cancer fighting - ingredient .Not to mention Vitamin C!
How come some got food poisoning not long ago from eating tomatos ,jalopenos,lettuce and spinach for example.AHA..need to find out the source..
Tomato and Jalopeno were out-sourced in Mexico .BAN! BAN!BAN!
But , how come tomatoes do not tatse like tomatoes anymore?Check out the Fumigation by growth hormones like ethylene.How come those migrant farmers spraying the tomato had deformed babies?Shut down that cherry tomato grower.The Tomato Brands war of survivor: the fatte$t vs the fittest!
Remeber back in 1994 that company which introduced the Tomato hybrid called "FlavrSavr"?It incorporated an anti-sense gene that shuts off the gene responsible for making a ripe tomato get soft and keep it well for as long as 14 days after harvest fit for consumption right on the store shelf.
The altered gene was labeled as food additve and approved as safe.
I personally check out Heirloom and wild cherry tomatos seeds as produced and preserved by nature.
End of the Tomato Talk...