Posts Tagged ‘Heirloom vegetables’

You Say Tomato, I Say Monsanto

April 30th, 2009  By Vanessa Barrington

tomato

Scientific American recently published an article called How to Grow a Better Tomato: The Case against Heirloom Tomatoes. The author details how plant breeders are going about saving heirloom tomatoes from their own fatal flaws. The article was written in a combative tone with the author seemingly intent on provoking a knee-jerk reaction from lovers of good, real food not managed under laboratory conditions. It worked. Read More

Permalink  Comments (11)

Tags: , , , ,

Newsletter Signup

CivilEater on Twitter

Naomi Starkman on Twitter

Civil Eats on Twitter