Arctic Apple Approved for U.S. Market

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29 Mar 2015, 11:05 am

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Editorial: Market will decide fate of Canada’s Arctic apple: Consumers will decide future of engineered fruit:

There are people who will welcome British Columbia’s new Arctic apple, recently approved for commercialization in the United States, its genes tweaked to prevent flesh from turning brown when exposed to the air.

Browning is the visual bane of the perfectly presented fruit salad. To artisans, not browning is a convenience that liberates the fruit from lemon juice, salting, carbonated baths, blanching or applications of commercially blended citric and ascorbic acid just to keep it looking pristine.
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Some recoil from the insertion of an extra set of instructions from an apple’s DNA telling its cells not to produce the natural enzyme that launches the browning process. GM crops such as canola, corn, soy beans and sugar beets are already widely grown here. Most processed foods contain some GM ingredients. Still, there are those who will perceive a GM apple as the new Frankenfruit.

Will you eat the Arctic Apple?

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29 Mar 2015, 12:20 pm

I'd give it a bite.

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29 Mar 2015, 12:26 pm

I'd gladly eat it.

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29 Mar 2015, 12:48 pm

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I guess they will be able to sell them pre-sliced. For edible bouquets and such.

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29 Mar 2015, 1:00 pm

I don't want to eat it thanks. I used to think gm foods where a good idea and was cool but now, not so much

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29 Mar 2015, 1:07 pm

Bill Nye is now ok with GMO food http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ener ... bout-gmos/

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29 Mar 2015, 2:09 pm

I'll try it if I'm offered. My great grandfather had his own orchard where he experimented with cross pollination and grafting his trees. He made unique kinds of apples, cherries, and peaches. The orchard isn't maintained anymore, but still the most delicious fruit you could ever taste. Very rare fruit in that orchard. I doubt Arctic Apple could beat that.

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29 Mar 2015, 10:14 pm

heck i'll try it, not that browning ever bothered me in the first place - unless i'd be arranging fruit bouquets i guess. just let me know how long it's been sitting out, sliced.

apples make me feel queasy sometimes but if this makes kids eat more apples, hurray.

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29 Mar 2015, 10:29 pm

Of course, I love genetic engineering.

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29 Mar 2015, 10:30 pm

I can hardly wait! Where are they being sold?

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31 Mar 2015, 7:27 am

No, thanks!

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31 Mar 2015, 8:07 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:

But apples are not even that healthy. They are fruit but contain almost no vitamins and minerals, a whole bunch of carbohydrates which kids eat more than enough of, and the only good thing is a bit of fiber.

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31 Mar 2015, 6:16 pm

from across the pond, where GM food has a much harder time than it does in the U.S.:
I'm findning it interesting how certain 'spectacular' engineered qualities, such as this mostly cosmetic one in the no-stain-apple, gain the amount of attention they do, including the echoeing question 'would you...?'

whereas, from any non-marketing standpoint, qualities such as hardiness or higher yields, less water consumption and so on, have been created years ago and are ubiquitous, even over here in europe, where the growing of GM plants is largely restricted. It all contains GM soy, and our clothes are made of GM cotton.
Yet, it takes an apple that looks nice in the fruit-salad on supermarket shelves to reignite the discussion....

I'm, btw. not against GM organisms, but I find it worrying that the companies that are the avantgarde of development are people like monsanto. (did you read that roundup was declared 'possible carcinogenic' by the UN?)

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31 Mar 2015, 6:22 pm

trollcatman wrote:

true, although they are still better than other junk kids would be eating.

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