Anybody notice their fruit is odd lately?

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And it's not just fruits. When large supermarkets compete, they simply want to sell as much stuff as possible for the highest possible margin. Well, as most people don't taste the diff that often it makes sense to prioritize like this:

0) sticking to govt rules
1) looks
2) price
3) taste

I know that in Europe for example, chicken is allowed (govt rules) to have a certain percentage water. So water is injected into our boneless chicken. Doesn't alter the looks, lowers the price per kg (water is much cheaper then chicken). And the taste... Oh well if 5% of the people start going to the butcher instead who cares.

In India, people found out what stuff to inject into melons to make them red inside. Less govt rules, same principle.

organic fruit and veggies is the only way to go!

being bought out by corporate america (Bert's Bees, Tom's of Maine, Seeds of Change, Arrowhead Mills, Muir Glen, etc.). Thus the health food stores are inadvertently opening their back doors to the very corporations we are trying to avoid. A non-profit corporation is needed to have first refusal at buying successful health companies outright or at least their tm when the owners are ready to retire and no family members wish to take the reins.

Love (consciousness) is in everything including the void.

Google codex alimentarius...setting "food standards" internationally in conjunction with the wto and the nau...

http://www.codexalimentar...

http://www.healthfreedomu...
(check out the 'nutricide' video, deeply disturbing stuff!)

Stockpile your supplements and green foods now...start growing your gardens...my hubby and i love holt m.d.'s berries and greens superfood powder, tastes like mint and raspberries and it's very, very nutritious...plus a lot cheaper than some of the superfood powders on the market (that taste like grass clippings or worse, blech!)

http://www.naturesbenefit...

We can't wait to get out of the city and into a house where we can grow our own food in an organic garden! Until then, we buy local from farmers and drink our greens every day. You won't believe how much energy it gives you!

I mourn the taste of truly great produce. In the past couple years, I've been very saddened by the state of the fresh sections at our grocery stores. Radiation and pesticides, yick!

Blackberries are a good option to grow for those who have the garden space. They're full of antioxidants, delicious, and hardy...they WILL take over whatever space they're given, and then some. Nothing like August blackberries, sun-ripened and perfect...mmm...

It sounds like freeze damage.

IMissLiberty

We noticed the quality of our grocery store produce has gone WAY downhill in the last few years, so we now support a CSA farm (Community Supported Agriculture). We give a farm a few hundred bucks at the beginning of the year, and then we receive a lot of great organic produce throughout the year. That way you keep local farms in business and you get the best produce money can buy, for cheaper than you'd pay at the grocery store! It is a great system if you have CSAs in your area. Check out localharvest.org/CSA for more info.

These fruits and vegetables have been genetically engineered, grown in labs and subjected to radiation -- all to keep the fruit looking better on the outside but a tasteless mushy cardboard inside.

I cannot believe only 1 poster below is aware of this, that most of the ingredients you buy in the regular supermarket have been genetically tampered with and modified. Say hello to my little friend Cancer.

The solution? Get yourself an aerogarden if you don't have a back yard. Buy your own ORGANIC seeds and plant your own fruits and vegetables.

Only purchase your fruits and vegetables from your local health food store co-op or from a farmer who only grows organic.

Just Say No to Monsanto!
(do a google search on that one)

And BTW, if you're not a vegan or vegetarian and you eat fish, you should be aware that a Norwegian fishery just reported they are VACCINATING the diseased fish -- who are suffering from pancreatic disease and heart problems from the unnatural fish farm conditions -- and setting them out to sea!

Care for a little vaccine in your salmon tartar??

It's a really good time now, boys and girls, to become a vegan...

I've been complaining about the quality of fruits and vegetables for the last 2 weeks, too! the entire grocery store is full of terrible looking stuff.

then, 2 days ago i bit into an apple that tasted that tobacco. no joke. i couldn't eat it.

E Pluribus Unum...

.....Out of many, one.

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Doctor Paul needs to speak up and so do we, don't you people see what is going on in our skies. Dennis Kucinich mentions Chemtrails once in 2001 and never again.

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Several people i know including myself have contacted doctor Pauls office and have never received any response in regards to this violation of life and liberty. Being a Doctor and have serving in the a

I got some really bad plums from Giant Eagle recently that looked and felt ripe but when you bit into them they seemed really mushy on the outermost layer and hard and watery in the middle, I ended up throwing away everyone of them after the first bite. I've also been growing hot peppers in a garden for the past couple years and this year they seem less consistent in their growth and ripening. I'm from western PA and it seems a bit chilly for August which is why I think last year my habaneros where about the same size and growing peppers at about the same time and this year some are huge with nearly ripe peppers and others are a few inches tall just starting to form flowers. I understand there are a number of things to take into account I just found it very contrast to last year and figured I'd mention it.

Also I'd like to mention I just registered with the DP, I check it at least twice everyday for new interesting posts, and I feel I've gained a lot of insight from other members posts and personal input. I've never seen a more passionate, intelligent and down to earth group of people than Ron Paul supporters.When I first became interested in Ron Paul it seemed like nobody in my area even heard of him. I felt extremely hopeful after learning Ron Paul's message and quite quickly turned my friends on to what he had to say. Time went on and it seemed I was bumping into more and more RP supporters (I'm sure the big Ron Paul stickers on the side of my car aided that:-). Then I stumbled across the Daily Paul and have been reading it since, and I figure since I gained a lot from the Daily Paul I'd like to give back by becoming an active member and sharing any useful knowledge or insight I may have to share.

Thank you to all who in one way or another make such a wonderful opportunity possible.

Magm

bought any fruit from the stores lately but I had some excellent Red Flame Grapes from my backyard.There ain't nothing wrong with them except there isn't enough of them LOL.But I made sure to plant a few more of the seeds so I can have some more vines next year.Me and my birds fought over my Peaches though,and my neighbors culled my Pears.Blackberries were good also,but I've yet to see any Apples this year.
Peace

I was just thinking that today as I was looking at my orange tree and noticed my oranges look funny.
I have watered them but when I eat them they are really dry like if they were grown in the desert!
I think its because of the plants here are being tricked by the weather.

The tomatoes at my grocery store have been horrid for the last few weeks. The two batches I bought started developing mold spots 1-2 days after I purchased them!

but had no seeds in them!
is that normal to get apples without seeds?
also - is it normal for apples with seeds - for them to be full of fungus or sprouted already? it seems like a few apples - their bases were punctured and air got to the seeds.

just don't' know.
if you do, help us out please.

I try to get what I need at a farmers market or buy the canned stuff...When I have bought so called fresh fruits and veggies at the flea market the taste stays in my mouth for days..the bad taste....Ever spray bug spray and breath it in by accident?..thats what the store bought stuff taste like.

Freedom is another way to God...A corrupt government is a straight way to hell.

my sister bought some eco-box that was delivered to the door once a week last year... no gmo and only normal and fresh stuff... was good..

my father grows much in summertime... and to compare it is ridiculous..

take a tomato for example.. a homegrown smells and taste like a tomato..mmm

buy one in a store it is tasteless, mushy..and has no smell at all..

we must not forget the nature spirits if we want a more complete solution to nutriious, healthy, and lip-smacking produce. These elementals are responsible for everything that grows. My wife and I have been working with these beings and although we have a rather small back yard, she carries a beautiful energy. It's wonderful. One thing all of us resolved together involved our 100 year old grapevine which I transplanted from my grandparents residence. The vine was growing nicely with lushous grape clusters. Two problems then developed: 1. The broad leaves were being eaten by Japanese beetles and 2. The grapes were being sucked dry by yellow jackets. What to do? Being students of Finehorn and Michele Small Wright (permaculture), we decided to work with the nature spirits, beetles, and wasps rather than try extermination methods. We sat down and explained the situation to everyone, that we wanted a healthy, productive grapevine and that the insects could go elsewhere to thrive and not be at risk. After repeating this statement over several days, the insects moved out and have not returned after many years. So, in summary, check out Finehorn, MSW (she has wonderful essenses for the garden), compost your food wastes, and try obtaining some volcanic ash for your garden and plants. Then watch the magic happen!

Love (consciousness) is in everything including the void.

Our soils have been depleted of mineral content ... which is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR PLANTS AND THE PEOPLE WHO EAT THEM TO THRIVE AND SURVIVE..

Chemical fertilizers certainly make fruits look good. Unfortunately, they are empty of the mineral nutrients they're supposed to have to help sustain life. And, without minerals, they are often flavorless. When minerals are taken up by a plant, it turns them into an organic form that is easy for us to assimilate. it makes them both more nourishing and tastier. Minerals dissolved in drinking water are not as bio-available to humans.

If you have a garden, you need to add lots of rock dust (Google it) to your soil in order to produce healthy, life sustaining plants.

Even organically grown foods, if grown in mineral poor soil, are not that nourishing. (But, at least they don't add insult to injury by poison you).

Of course, the bible has much to say about letting land lie fallow every so often and, crop rotation would surely help too, however, these "suggestions" don't seem to suit the operators of our modern chemical single crop mega farms. That's why we should support small, local farmers and let the pretty veggies and fruits at the supermarket rot in their bins. (But that won't happen).

It was only a matter of time before the effects of agri-business farming became painfully obvious. The time is now, I guess.
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Check out this Mercola.com article:
12 Foods You Don't Have to Buy Organic.

"Of the 43 different fruit and vegetable categories tested, these 12 fruits and vegetables had the highest pesticide load, making them the most important to buy or grow organic:

* Peaches
* Apples
* Sweet bell peppers
* Celery
* Nectarines
* Strawberries
* Cherries
* Lettuce
* Grapes (imported)
* Pears
* Spinach
* Potatoes
"

And for those who don't know, Dr. Mercola is a HUGE Ron Paul supporter!
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Moobi

"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." -- Thomas Jefferson

Pulpy peaches. Dry and no peach scent. I haven't bought my fruit
from grocers in years for that very reason. And, now so much of the produce is from Mexico.

I just thought of this...remember those news stories about all those bees disappearing, and even the agricultural scientists couldn't explain why they'd disappeared, or where they'd gone?

Now I'm wondering whether the "bee shortage" (for lack of a better term) has any link to the tasteless fruit issue. Whether it's a major or minor impact, I can't help but think it might be related...

Perhaps the bees are "on strike" against Monsanto. Can't say I'd blame them.

the other day i went into my local grocery store and bought three pieces of fruit for lunch...

the plum i ate fist was great...then, i ate the peach...it had no taste whatsoever! i though, this is weird...i thought it could have been because i ate the plum first and my taste buds were just reacting to that (i didn't know why the peach had NO taste at all, I was just trying out hypothesis')...anyway, the pear was also very "tasteless"

funny, weird...not funny haha

O Captain, My Captain, rise up and hear the bells!

Drug stores! I see them being built all over the place. Sometimes two or three on the same busy intersection! And very few people know why...

I hate Wal Mart, but (noticed our local one re-modeled)I needed a spice for my pickles, so I went there (other stores were out)

Anyhow, there are thousands of less items available to purchase - the store practically looks bare compared to the past.

Also, checkout registers are fewer, and very dark and dismal looking. It in fact, looks depressing. And according to a worker, they have cut back most hrs of their workers, which total one day's less work or 8 hrs plus.

I believe THEY are getting ready for the Depression.

I remember traveling through Europe, buying fruit from the local outdoor markets and thinking WOW, this is what Bananas and Apples are supposed to taste like. American supermarket fruit sucks!

We mostly buy organic food. I will buy regular onions and avocados.

http://www.foodnews.org/w...

check the number on the sticker..
if it begins with the number 9 it is
allegedly organic. You will notice a
difference if it is.
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I grow fresh organic fruit and vegetables. There is no comparison to the quality of my fruit and vegetables compared to those that have been sprayed by chemicals or tampered with in the growth process. The chemicals and hybird tampering of fruits, vegetables and meat products have gone off the charts do to government involvement. All this unhealthy tampering is a major contributing factor to human health defects of extranomical proportions. This country is literally being poisoned to death in every since of the word. Physically, financially, mentally. Every person that is able should have their fighting game face on. This country is in shambles. America is imploding. Wake up and look around. The government at every level and the msm is trying to deceive people and cover up as much corruption as they can. Many are just sitting and letting this tragic affair take place. Not I ! Many, and I will say again, "MANY" are in process of battling the corrupt individuals in charge of trying to destroy our freedoms and liberties in this country. And who ever is assisting them are considered part of their band. We will prevail.

As told to me by a Grocery store owner a few years back. The big grocery suppliers have a program whereby they will help your situation by remodeling, building a new facility for you and provide various other benefits in order to "lock" you in to a bindable situation, allowing them to more or less control you, i.e., forcing their clients to committe and order a certain quantity of groceries for a year in advance. Which means, as far as fruits and vegitables go, you must committe and buy your perishables a year in advance = the supplier co. then stores the quantity ordered in cold storage and is drawn on by the grocery store, so, in effect, whatever you purchase from a grocery store has been stored cold and the further in the year we go, the longer your fruit and veggies have aged, thereby losing not only flavor, but nutrition as well. Buy local as much as possible, but organic.

Rhino's been his usual disinfo,know it all self...

Paper Ballots,Hand Counted At The Precinct Or Bust

i've asked several people the same thing. my home grown fruits and vegies are fine, but most of the store bought have no flavor. i've gotten no answers.

are the test subjects for the LBAM spray project. I am wondering if your fruit came from one of the areas where they are admittedly spraying/testing this new pesticide. You can search: eradication of light brown apple moth or lbam spray. I would think there is still plenty of info out there. L.