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At 19:21 18/01/99 -0500, Diane Olson wrote:
>Donald, Do you know if apples are being irradiated nowadays? I ask because
>my 3 year old daughter let an apple sit somewhere hidden for a full week, &
>it never turned brown!!! THAT is scary. Diane
>
>Donald J Merkes wrote:
>> ... on the Ideas Network of Wisconsin Public Radio (www.wpr.org).
>> TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE - “Food and Biotechnology”
>> *Walk around the supermarket and you’ll find potatoes, corn, and lots
>> of other genetically-engineered foods. Biotechnology is changing what
>> we eat, but is it safe? This evening at eleven on TO THE BEST OF
>> OUR KNOWLEDGE, the debate over genetically-altered crops.
>> Also, a man who travels around the world collecting “heirloom seeds.”
{ ** I'm very much with you in being against commercialised genetic
engineering, particularly when used for un-labelled food. }
** Diane (and others who've had electricity and refrigeration all their
lives):
In 1940-41 (early winter, but warm up there) I remember going up to the
attic of the family home (an old stone farmhouse called Ardlamont, on the
shores of eastern Lake Ontario), and finding the planks covered with apples
of various kinds, grown locally. In fact, I was there to help turn them
over, and pick out any that needed to be eaten (or cooked into apple purée)
right away, or were just too bad.
The wonderful smell, and the feeling that we had no worries about fruit to
eat in the winter, have stayed with me the rest of my life.
Certain kinds of healthy apples (the various Pippins, and Sturmers, from
memory), can be kept for a month or several at "room temperatures" (cold at
night), provided they're in somewhat dry air.
David. P.S. Some years later, I learnt to chop wood at Ardlamont, and to
sift the ashes - can't now remember why: maybe for use in the garden.
** http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/6783/index.html#top
David MacClement <davd@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/3142/index.html#top