T Minus 1 Day to Turkey (Coles Science Center Blog)

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T Minus 1 Day to Turkey

Here's a little something to "chew on" from Wired Science regarding your upcoming Thanksgiving meal:

"Most everything on your plate has undergone tremendous genetic change under the intense selective pressures of industrial farming. Pilgrims and American Indians ate foods called corn and turkey, but the actual organisms they consumed didn't look or taste much at all like our modern variants do."

image source: Wired Science blog

Bottom line: turkeys over twice the size, sweeter corn, and starchier potatoes. What, no pumpkin pie?

Posted by JAC on November 26, 2008 11:51 AM | Permalink

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