• DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    honeycrisp are good, I just like the sourness and crunch of a granny smith over the sweetness of a honeycrisp .

    the reason that capitalism does this is to try and infinitely expand. new strains to market to sell more apples, that's it, that's the entire idea. and so in this pursuit of infinite growth they act like short sighted idiots who run off the cliff edge. once you remove the profit motive, there is no reason to forcibly 'innovate' constantly, we should change agriculture for a large number of reasons, but in this case it's outside factors that influence agriculture that simply is not an issue when your primary focus goes from selling a good to providing food for people because they need food

    • Windows97 [any, any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      honeycrisp are good, I just like the sourness and crunch of a granny smith over the sweetness of a honeycrisp .

      granny smith have a great taste but are more often mealy than not in my experience. Honeycrip is one of the only breed of apple that is almost always crisp and it's also a good balance between sour and sweet

      new strains to market to sell more apples, that’s it, that’s the entire idea. and so in this pursuit of infinite growth they act like short sighted idiots who run off the cliff edge. once you remove the profit motive, there is no reason to forcibly ‘innovate’ constantly

      Is it just a problem of having too many types of apples that nobody needs or is that making them more vulnerable to diseases? I genuinely don't know much about how apple farms work at all.