Is The Tomato Overrated : The Power Of The Little Red Fruit

The tomato comes from the Aztec word 'tomatl' which means "plump fruit" and the Spanish conquerors called the tomato the "tomate". The tomato was not used as a food product at first. Italians thought the food was used as a drug. “...The fruit earned a reputation as an

The book was written from the author’s ceaseless desire for knowledge and irresistible curiosity; he was astonished at the sight of tomatoes displayed in a garden organized by college students.The variety of tomatoes encouraged the author to explore its origin; most of the tomatoes were cultivated in America and transported to Asian countries.As the author researched the original

In the novel, The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan tells the intriguing story of how plants are domesticated from the perspective of the plant with regards to four specific plants.. The four plants he chose for discussion are the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. As he discusses the domestication of these plants, his overall focus is the desire that each of these plants have to us as humans. Pollan has written books and magazine articles among other pieces of literature that discuss the relationship between plants and humans. Throughout this informational text, Pollan tries to keep the perspective from the “plant’s-eye view of the world,” but he often slips into Pollan’s eye view of the world. As he talks about experiences that he has had with each of these plants and gives a little bit of their history, it was often hard to stay focused on the topic that he was trying to convey. However, I found that the perspectives that Pollan brings up are interesting to think about. The Botany of Desire was an interesting journal type informational novel that didn’t quite live up to my expectations of what it could have been.

John Soluri 's Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States, (Which for spatial and repetitive purposes, I will refer to as Banana Cultures for the remainder of the paper), introduces the reader to a world of corporate greed, consumption, and environmental change using the history of the common, everyday fruit, the banana. He explores the various political occurrences, health problems, and changes in mass media through the rise of the consumption of the banana in the United States, and around the globe.

After the Spanish settled in America, many new foods and species of plants were introduced to the people of Eurasia, none of which they had said before. Although most of the exchange of food was from the New World to the Old World, Eurasia also introduced the America’s to wheat and grapes, two very important foods for mass. Potatoes and corn were a major part of the Columbian Exchange as they provided a lot of nutrition and were very easy to grow. They could grow in soil that was previously useless for agriculture. Other foods that spread across Europe were tomatoes, peppers, chocolate, beans, pineapples, avocados and blueberries. This exchange of food was the main reason that the worlds population doubled from 545,000,000 in 1600 to 1,128,000,000 in 1850 and historians often describe this massive increase in the nutritional value and variety of

In the 1620s the potato was introduced to the colony of Virginia courtesy of the British governor of the Bahamas. The potato didn’t truly spread until it received a seal of approval from Thomas Jefferson after serving them to guests at the White House (Chapman, n.d.). The potato continued it’s spread across the world and eventually became a staple part of meals (and snacks) the world over.

Which then led to people inventing other stuff and different kinds of food like maize which was made by a weed from from the indigenous americans this was a big food revolution in history. (corn was a human invention not a natural production.

Tomatoes where brought over during the Columbian exchange. Tomatoes are really important to the Europe

To begin, tomatoes was one of Manatee Counties best crop from 1850-1910. According to King (n.d.) she states most tomatoes were grown in the Manatee County

The author of the book, “The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World” (2008), Dan Koeppel, who is a famous journalist describes in a fascinating way banana’s cultural importance, threats associated with the crops of banana in the future and banana’ history. Banana is a very delicious fruit and is eaten all over the world. Banana is one of the world’s fourth largest harvests in the world. Dole and Chiquita are eminent American based distributors and producers of banana. They are claiming to produce the banana on low price. In this book, Koeppel discusses the risks associated to the plantation of banana around the world. He also discusses the fact that due to blight, the plantation of banana is destroyed (Koeppel, 2008). He points out that the farmers and the producers have no insight at all regarding this matter (Koeppel, 2008).

Although it looks like a tomato, it's kind of a notional tomato. I mean, it's the idea of a tomato.

Without a doubt, the first virgin ideas were that in the minds of the farmers who began to experiment with plants in their natural components, as compared to today’s bio-manipulation strategies.

Welcome to the age of an agricultural revolution as everyday biotechnology continues to bring innovation to human’s most basic needs – food. Food is essential to any living organism, providing energy for our production and nutrients for our protection. Without this fundamental element, life cannot exist. Our lack to produce our own energy, like plants, causes us to become dependent on others for survival. Humans existence is attributed only to the million years of evolution our food source underwent to sustain our survival. Changing the primary nature of our food source, whether it is plant or animal, directs mankind in a dangerous future if our food dependency is permanently hampered. Welcome to the age of an agricultural devolution

As part of their discussion over the amount of tomato products to pack in a particular season , it was

Modern genetic engineering (GE) and plant hybridization can trace its roots to a 19th century Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel, whose pioneering studies on garden pea plants revolutionized the comprehension of how heredity and the transmission of genetic traits function (Schwarzbach, Smykal, Dostal, Jarkovska, & Valova, 2014). However, it was not until Watson and Crick (1953) that the double helix structure of DNA and the composition of chromosomes were identified. With this knowledge, scientists then sought novel ways to more efficiently manipulate an organisms’ genetic sequence, eventually leading to a California-based company named Calgene to introduce the first genetically modified (GM) food, the Flavr-Savr tomato, to the consumer market in 1994 (Redenbaugh, Hiatt, Martineau, & Emlay 1994). Genetic engineering is largely carried out by recombinant DNA technology and allows scientists “to add one or a small number of genes from essentially any organism to simple bacterial cells” (Knight, 2015). Once genes are inserted into the bacterial cells, they can then be introduced into another organism. Foods have been genetically modified, since the production of the Flavr-Savr tomato, to serve specific functions. The functions most closely associated with GM foods have been “improved seed yield, shorter stems that better resist wind damage, herbicide resistance, frost resistance, salt tolerance” (Bennett et al., 2004).