Did you know...
It is Saturday (ok, you probably knew that) so I'll do something non-Oracle. Did you know - carrots aren't really supposed to be orange? They should be purple. And they are if you grow a few generations of the Orange ones (they revert back to their natural state).
So, much like the yellow, easy to peel bananas we enjoy - Orange carrots are a product of "us".
I wonder what Bugs Bunny would have to say about that...
So, much like the yellow, easy to peel bananas we enjoy - Orange carrots are a product of "us".
I wonder what Bugs Bunny would have to say about that...
posted by Thomas Kyte at 1:47 PM
9 Comments:
well, actually there are a quite a lot of things around that are a product "of us", but in this case this is still natural stuff, it's just a matter of genetic selection in contrast with modern OGM techniques.
Most of the fruit we eat, in its original or "natural" form would be either much smaller or more acid, like cherries, peaches, plums, apples...
And the same goes with domestic animals.
In the end it looks like "hackers" have been invented a loooong time ago!
Pigs revert from pink to black within a few generations too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_boar#Feral_pigs
So, if technology could accelerate classic cross-breeding techniques, would that accellerate the downsides?
word:miess
Wow.
I did not know that the genetically modified stuff also "auto-downgrades".
I do remember eating the the "version 1.0" purple carrots when I was a kid when the genetically "upgraded" stuff was still not widely available.
Funny thing is how the dutch were having fun with hybrid carrots, 200 years before Mendel was supposed to have invented genetics!
:)
If you happen to be in holland this friday you will see lots of people dressed up as carrots on our national holiday ;-)
@Noons: Yeah, not to mention royal inbreeding going back at least to the Egyptians!
Poking at a black box isn't necessarily science.
word: rette
Thanks for the article link on carrots. Coincidently, I was chewing carrot this Monday morning when I found this link on your blog site. You are truly amazing person with so many flavors and colors.
- Sanjay
i like this
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