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[–] 3 points 3 months ago

And then the agro industry comes in, selects or genetically-engineers the fruit varieties with the longest shelf life, standardizes all the crops around those varieties at the expense of older, often hardier ones, harvests them green so they mature onboard cargo vessels on their way to supermarkets thousands of miles away, and ends up making all of them taste like shit.

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