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Why does our food taste like cardboard? + Dodo not so stupid after all - C C - Feb 24, 2016
Why does our food taste like cardboard?
http://us.clickandgrow.com/blogs/news/92100358-why-does-our-food-taste-like-cardboard
EXCERPT: You might have noticed that the vegetables you get in the store do not really taste right in the last years. [...] The reason is actually the age-old quality vs. quantity theory. It's probably not a shocker that in the last half a century the productivity of agriculture has gone up as high as 500% - to feed the growing population, we've had no other choice but to make our crops ripen faster and in higher quantities. But it's not only our plant-based foods that have reached higher productivity and astonishing speeds. [...] But at what cost?
[...] The researcher David Davis from the Texas University decided to measure the changes in the nutritional content of vegetables from 50s till 1999. And yes, you guessed right - the results were not that positive. According to his research, the drop in the nutritional contents was measurable anywhere from 6 to 38% [...] Why? His guesses covered fertilization and other environmental factors, and most recently - genetic differences. In the last half a century, farmers have focused mostly on optimizing the yield, compromising the nutrition...
Dodo Bird Was Not So Stupid After All
http://www.sci-news.com/biology/dodo-bird-was-not-so-stupid-03655.html
EXCERPT: According to a new study in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, an extinct bird known as the dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was in fact relatively smart...