Apples that never go brown could be on sale by 2014 - with GM fruit staying white for weeks
By ROB WAUGH
Apples that never go brown could be on sale as early as 2014.
A Canadian biotech company has filed a request with food regulators to start selling two varieties it claims will stay fresh for weeks on end.
Okanagan Specialty Fruits said the genetically modified apples have had the gene responsible for browning ‘silenced’, meaning they remain green or red indefinitely.
The firm hopes that it will get approval in the U.S. and Canada within a year and will start planting trees - with the fruit being sold the year afterwards.
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the meals are too small and "gross". I'll have to warn him to avoid 'apple' substances and 'apples' at school after next year.
He's a normal eleven year old that they tried to medicate. Class clown type kid. My daughter said, "oh, hell no!". He was transferred for special classes and no one at the new school can figure out why. He's in the top 10% of his class.
And they wonder why kids are all obesity and ADHD prone. 
... if stored properly, apples can last much longer than that.
We used to ship them to England in barrels (certainly "weeks on end"
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> Nothing new there...
> ... if stored properly, apples can last much longer than that.
> We used to ship them to England in barrels (certainly "weeks on end" .
The "new" bit is that you will no longer have to "store them properly"
so they can be stored in all kinds of unhealthy & unsanitory conditions
and *still* look as if they are fresh & healthy.
Rather like the practice of not testing BSE-infected cows (just in case
they find any) doesn't actually make the untested beef "healthy".
