Man we lucked out with the potato. It genuinely sounds bio-engineered. Here's this hardy plant that grows nigh anywhere, keeps forever and covers like most of your nutritional needs. Also it tastes pretty good.
The modern, laboratory sense is just a more efficient way of doing exactly what farmers were doing 5,000 years ago. Like all technology, genetic modification isn't inherently good or evil, it's how the people who control the technology use it that matters. Monsanto et al are bad because they're controlled by capital.
It's funny given the resistance it first had in Europe. It's part of the nightshade family and was largely used as animal feed until the 18th century when it was popularized in large part due to a Frenchman named Parmentier. One story claims he hired guards for his potato fields to create the impression of value, but dismissed then at dusk so peasants could steal them and get hooked on the starchy goodness
Man we lucked out with the potato. It genuinely sounds bio-engineered. Here's this hardy plant that grows nigh anywhere, keeps forever and covers like most of your nutritional needs. Also it tastes pretty good.
The potato, and everything else we eat that isn't wild game, is bio-engineered. Have you ever seen a wild cucumber? They're like a cm long.
well yeah but I meant in the modern laboratory sense and not in the historic agriculture sense
The modern, laboratory sense is just a more efficient way of doing exactly what farmers were doing 5,000 years ago. Like all technology, genetic modification isn't inherently good or evil, it's how the people who control the technology use it that matters. Monsanto et al are bad because they're controlled by capital.
you're correct but please let me have my alluding to futuristic gene splicing vegetable/starch thats actually been around forever take here
Oh, aliens definitely used quantum entanglement to send the potato back in time.
not quite what I was going for but thank you none the less
ok well some of the shit where you use genes from something else entirely
that wasn't gonna happen in any reasonable timescale the old way
AND IT'S SUPER COOL
Shout out to my brassica gang. All my homies love brassicas
Yeah not to mention you can lop the eyes off which u dont eat anyway, chuck em in almost any soil and you get more potato
I've accidentally grown a potato plant that must have been from some animal burying part of one into the soil.
It's funny given the resistance it first had in Europe. It's part of the nightshade family and was largely used as animal feed until the 18th century when it was popularized in large part due to a Frenchman named Parmentier. One story claims he hired guards for his potato fields to create the impression of value, but dismissed then at dusk so peasants could steal them and get hooked on the starchy goodness
I heard the exact same story about the german kaiser lmao
Yeah there's a couple people it gets attributed to, Wikipedia mentions Frederick the Great for example
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