Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?

Re:Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutriti... by true_religion on Monday March 05, 2018 @09:27AM (#16521224)

The human element can serve to add trust in the place of verification, but shouldn't take its place.

People lie. Industry "standards" change commonly accepted definitions. People buy what's cheap, and effective even if it may not exactly be what's on the tin (e.g. farmer buys an 'organic' fertilizer which isn't, thus 'contaminating' the organic nature of the goods going to your table).

That said, I don't see why higher yield with lower nutrition goods are bad in general. It seems malnutrition is from people not eating enough, not from being stuffed with poorly nourishing food.

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Re:Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutriti... by hashkb on Monday March 05, 2018 @10:01AM (#16521451)

If the farmers at local markets are lying about using conventional methods but still growing smaller, tastier fruits and veggies with shorter shelf lives despite still having dirt and rocks on them... then we're totally fucked anyway.

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Re:Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutriti... by hackerman12345 on Monday March 05, 2018 @10:51AM (#16521817)

I've seen personal stories here about those farmers market people stopping by Walmart before hand... probably can get a nice discount on dirty fruit.

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Re:Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutriti... by Reedx on Monday March 05, 2018 @03:59PM (#16524323)

Yep, check out CBC's undercover investigation on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYwB63YslbA

Some don't even bother to take the stickers off!

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