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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Money says this turns out like engineering tomatoes. They decided consumers wanted a more consistently colored skin, more spherical fruit. Yeah. Tweaking those genes took out the sugars and acids, which is why tomatoes taste like cardboard today.

"Let's take a non-issue and tweak it!"