[ospzfmbbzr]

Double plus good cripsy tomatoes mmm

More mostly water pale tomatoes like subway etc. Wonderful.

Try a eating a real heirloom tomato and if you are still interested in this franken-food I'm not sure what to tell you.

[mustacheemperor]

A 'real heirloom tomato' represents a plant that has been extensively modified by humans through the slower genetic modification process of artificial selection.

The wild ancestor of the tomato is the size of a pea.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanum_pimpinellifolium

[algoatecorn]

The GM aspect of food crops has nothing to do with harvest/ripening processes

[kevin_thibedeau]

The FlavrSavr tomato was developed to delay decay so that they could be picked in a riper state. GM doesn't just mean pesticide resistance.

[algoatecorn]

I'm aware of FlavrSavr as my line of work is plant genome engineering. My response was to a comment which was presumably directed toward the article that was posted. In that article, the new tomato variety is not engineered in a way to affect shelf-life. Besides, per acre, almost all of our GM crops are engineered for producers' benefit. Out of the many registered GM varieties, only a small handful are associated with something other than pesticide resistance, Bt, or environmental resiliency.