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  • buy organic food with no preservatives
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  • salt (inorganic preservative)

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  • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Genetically modified generally refers to direct modifications to genes done in a lab. As opposed to selective breeding.

    Organic often refers to the use of fertiliser and pesticides. So produce that is grown with compost rather than synthetic fertiliser and synthetic pesticides.

    It’s completely feasible to produce organic watermelons and solely consume organic watermelons. It only refers to how the fruit was grown. Not the variety.

    There are GMOs that are created in a lab. Commercial varieties breed mainly for shelf life and volume. Then there is heirloom variety’s, older varieties generally breed prior to over commercialisation of farming that has made food more bland and bigger. All of these can be grown organically.

    In fact it’s very easy for the only watermelon you eat to be organic. Especially if you grow them yourself, as many gardeners use organic methods exclusively.

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      10 months ago

      I hate North America’s obsession with seedless watermelons and grapes.

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        10 months ago

        I didn’t know seedless watermelons existed. In the UK most grapes are seedless, didn’t release grapes had flavour until I had seeded ones.

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          10 months ago

          It’s probably because they use the same cultivar that doesn’t mature seeds and goes for maximum growth and Resistance to fungi and disease instead of flavour.