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Re:The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by bogomipz on Sunday September 03, 2017 @06:59PM (#15164464)
>"After WW2, people didn't consider taste very important; only appearance, size, cost, and maybe nutritional value mattered, so lots of tasteless vegetables were bred."

Do you have a citation for or more info about this? Were genetically modified tomatoes introduced after the war? I would have thought that came much later with the rise of Monsanto[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavr_Savr

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Re:The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by xbmcuser on Sunday September 03, 2017 @07:40PM (#15164609)
Most fruits and vegetables we eat today have been genetically modified but by selective breeding sometimes over hundreds of year. Take corn for example something that is found almost all over the world its current form is because of genetic modification natural corn looks quite different.
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Re:The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by mcv on Monday September 04, 2017 @09:28AM (#15168066)
They're not genetically modified, merely bred for specific attributes, like people have been doing for thousands of years.

Just regular evolution with human selection still works fine, with no need to directly interfere in the genetic makeup.

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