Thread: "enhanced" watermelons?

George <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wonder if these "enhanced" watermelons were destined for the local
wally?


I'd bet Wal*mart wouldn't want to pay the high cost of transporting such
heavy fruit to the USA.

What bothers me more than watermelons is the use of forchlorfenuron in
the USA on kiwi and grapes. I don't know if there's large crop of kiwi
here but there probably is for grapes. Both are my favorite fruits. The
kiwis I can find here are a product of New Zealand but I don't know their
stance on it's usage there.

The thought of those fruits soaked in the additive really stinks, imho.

Here's the EPA report on the additive. It certainly wasn't written for
the laypersons to fully grasp!

http://www.epa.gov/opprd001/factshee...lorfenuron.pdf

The report is from 2004 so it's been in use for quite a while. I've
probably ingested a fair amount of the stuff.

Andy

Andy wrote:

> The report is from 2004 so it's been in use for quite a while. I've
> probably ingested a fair amount of the stuff.
>
> Andy


And has it increased the size of your berries?

-Bob

In article <iqtml1$fdd$[email protected]>, George <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Wonder if these "enhanced" watermelons were destined for the local wally?
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110517/...ng_watermelons
> _3
>
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/3wtze6x

This is truly a world crisis. 115 acres of watermelons ruined. You can
expect prices at your local store to go up instantly until you have no
option but to starve to death.

The article said, of course, that they are feeding them to the animals.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
[email protected]

On May 17, 7:06*am, Dan Abel <da...@sonic.net> wrote:
> In article <iqtml1$fd...@dont-email.me>, George <geo...@nospam.invalid>
> wrote:
>
> > Wonder if these "enhanced" watermelons were destined for the local wally?
>
> >http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110517/...a_exploding_wa...
> > _3
>
> >http://preview.tinyurl.com/3wtze6x
>
> This is truly a world crisis. *115 acres of watermelons ruined. *You can
> expect prices at your local store to go up instantly until you have no
> option but to starve to death.
>
> The article said, of course, that they are feeding them to the animals.
>
> --
> Dan Abel
> Petaluma, California USA
> da...@sonic.net

I wonder if the animals will have enhanced 'berries' as well.......

On 2011-05-17, George <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Wonder if these "enhanced" watermelons were destined for the local wally?

This is the horror of where GM foods are undoubtedly headed. Jes like
yer current ad in a magazine fer some new pharmacological scam takes
up two entire pages, one to 'splain its dubious benefits and the other
to warn of the possibly lethal side effects. This is what we're
headed for. Buy a new square tomato and then hafta wait for the
on-staff biomed technician to provide a safety consultation prior to
eating. Get a mis-modified food still in beta testing and run the
risk of exploding tum-tum, burn-yer-house-to-the-ground flatulence, or
near fatal Roseanne-Barr-face rash.

With any luck at all, I'll be pleasantly taking a long deserved dirt
nap, by then.

nb

In article <iqtml1$fdd$[email protected]>, George <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Wonder if these "enhanced" watermelons were destined for the local wally?
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110517/...ng_watermelons
> _3
>
>
> http://preview.tinyurl.com/3wtze6x

I don't buy them as I don't care much for Watermelon. Dad says he likes
it but when I buy it and serve it, it always ends up sitting and rotting
so I don't bother any more.

My favorite melon is Cantaloupe and I've finally perfected getting a
delicious ripe one every time. :-)
--
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come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
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On Tue, 17 May 2011 07:34:59 -0500, Andy wrote:

> George <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Wonder if these "enhanced" watermelons were destined for the local
> wally?
>
> I'd bet Wal*mart wouldn't want to pay the high cost of transporting such
> heavy fruit to the USA.
>
> What bothers me more than watermelons is the use of forchlorfenuron in
> the USA on kiwi and grapes. I don't know if there's large crop of kiwi
> here but there probably is for grapes. Both are my favorite fruits. The
> kiwis I can find here are a product of New Zealand but I don't know their
> stance on it's usage there.
>
> The thought of those fruits soaked in the additive really stinks, imho.
>
> Here's the EPA report on the additive. It certainly wasn't written for
> the laypersons to fully grasp!
>
> http://www.epa.gov/opprd001/factshee...lorfenuron.pdf
>
> The report is from 2004 so it's been in use for quite a while. I've
> probably ingested a fair amount of the stuff.
>
> Andy

good thing it hasn't affected your brain. oh, wait.

blake

Re: dabel-06FA19.07060117052011@c-61-68-...connect.net.au
Dan Abel <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <iqtml1$fdd$[email protected]>, George
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Wonder if these "enhanced" watermelons were destined for the local
>> wally?
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110517/...ng_watermelons
>> _3
>>
>> http://preview.tinyurl.com/3wtze6x
>
> This is truly a world crisis. 115 acres of watermelons ruined. You
> can expect prices at your local store to go up instantly until you
> have no option but to starve to death.
>
> The article said, of course, that they are feeding them to the
> animals.

No problem then. What could possibly go wrong?

Seriously, this farmer may have overdosed his watermelon with this common
"drug", as it's called in the article, but what I get from it is that
producers in the Chinese food chain are basically using as much of whatever
drug/chemical/other agent as they can get away with. First time users like
these get burned and the experienced farmers figure out how much of this
stuff they can feed the melons without this happening.

If we think the US has had a huge detrimental impact on the environment, we
ain't seen nuthin' yet.

MartyB