The World's Vegetables Are Vanishing, And It's Quietly Wrecking Our Diets
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Frozen produce is frozen ripe very close in both time and georphically to when/where it was picked. The freezing process actually seals in the nutrients it produced as it got ripe in field. The only "loss" with freezing can be texture. Certain foods like strawberries being flash frozen and then experiencing any slight thaw and refreezing can…
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Yeah, I couldn't find any indication of selection being an actual issue, so I don't know why supply is being blamed. When there's already a bigger selection of vegetables available to most people than in all of human history, adding more variety doesn't seem like a solution, just a way to further clutter supermarkets. Seems like the real work is…
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Monoculture does have the risk of wide spread disease impact but we're so advanced in food engineering that we can frequently work in resistance within only a couple of years. And things are as monoculture as you assume. There's multiple varieties of carrot and corn grown, but they have similar enough resultant produce that you don't notice the…
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It already did. The Gros Michel banana, which was effectively a monoculture crop, was all but wiped out by an outbreak of Panama disease. Banana farmers switched to the Cavendish, but we didn't learn our lesson about monocultures and now there's a new variety of the disease that can infect the Cavendish.
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There's no dirty rhetorical device. Am pointing out that frozen alternative is not as rosy as everyone up the chain seems to think. Avoiding this fact will not erase it from our physical reality.
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Not to mention the MLM garbage and people reselling regular produce with the stickers removed. Bunch of grifters, all of them.