Your corn is sweeter, your potatoes are starchier and your turkey is much, much bigger than the foods that sat on your grandparents’ Thanksgiving dinner table.
Most everything on your plate has undergone tremendous genetic change under the intense selective pressures of industrial farming. Pilgrims and American Indians ate foods called corn and turkey, but the actual organisms they consumed didn’t look or taste much at all like our modern variants do.
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/turkeytech/
A chocolate laboratory in Italy will be good for chocolate eaters — and
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The chocolate biz is raising the bar with a lab to assess cacao beans from
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