In October, 2022, The WinePress reported that a new type of crop was poised to hit grocery store shelves relatively soon. Now they have: introducing the new gene-spliced purple “super tomatoes,” available in seed form at select grocery and gardening stores across the United States.
SEE: GMO Purple ‘Super Tomatoes’ Are Set To Hit US Grocery Stores Soon
This move is part of a larger plan to introduce the next phase of genetically-modified-organisms (GMOs) across the world, by taking it to the next step by significantly altering the plant’s and animal’s genetics to essentially create a new line of foods that require less sunlight, water, fertilizers, pesticides, etc.
For more on this recent news, Agtech Navigator provides more details (Excerpts):
Norfolk Healthy Produce develops and markets innovative varieties of fruits and vegetables on behalf of the bioengineering group Norfolk Plant Sciences, where the Purple Tomato was created.
According to the Davis, California-based company, the new tomato variety contains purple antioxidants called anthocyanins (the healthy nutrients in blueberries, blackberries and eggplants). Thanks to a bioengineering approach that combines tomatoes with two genes from an edible flower (snapdragon), Norfolk’s tomatoes are the only varieties that have purple antioxidants in the flesh and the skin, the company said.
Professor Cathie Martin, who developed the first and only purple-fleshed tomato, said she has ‘dreamed of this day’ since publishing her first peer-reviewed scientific report in 2008.
It has been my wish that gardeners could grow and enjoy purple tomatoes, and share in the health and beauty. It is so exciting that gardeners in the USA can grow these in the 2024 season.
She said
Nathan Pumplin, CEO of Norfolk Healthy Produce, said:
We are thrilled to offer these first-of-akind seeds to home gardeners. Our tomato is just a tomato – you can grow it in your garden next to your Sun Golds and Purple Cherokees, and other favorite varieties. We share our gratitude to the thousands of fans, who have shared their interest and encouragement through our website. Please give a big thanks to the breeding and seed production team, as well as the regulatory team, whose care and diligence made this high-quality product possible.
We live at a time with many organic and non-GMO options in produce. Consumers looking for something better and different, enabled with biotechnology, have very few options to choose from. Norfolk Healthy Produce is proud to offer an additional choice to interested consumers and suppliers.
Packets of 10 seeds cost US$20, and are only available in the US, where the biotechnology regulatory process has been completed with USDA, FDA and EPA. The first variety is an indeterminate cherry tomato, and can be grown with the same gardening methods used for other indeterminate varieties.
The company pointed out that surveys with American consumers showed that 80% are interested to eat, purchase and grow the purple tomato, knowing that it is bioengineered (often referred to as a genetically modified organism, or GMO). Only 5% of consumers were not interested.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
All of this tampering with God’s design and perfect creation is going to fail in the years to come, guaranteed. Whenever man screws with God’s design and natural order of things it always goes haywire. The sales pitch is this new wave of gene-edited crops will end hunger and will improve health in some areas. Therefore, we know that the opposite is true.
I suspect it will be a colossal failure down the road, as people conversely get sick from all these gene edits.
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Isaiah 5:13
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Not a huge fan of tomatoes, but if ya want them sugary, ah just add sugar duh, or salty, add salt, they always make simple difficult!
You gotta love these fake ghost survey’s these shills market up to tempt people to buy it. It’s as if we have already entered into the wall-e movie. Hit daily with new marketing adds on our black mirror devices about all nonsense dung artificial products.
Fake news, fake food, fake economy, fake clothes, fake lifestyles lol the new world fake order lol coming soon to a theatre near you… you know !?
great article but purple thing look like dung inside. hope someone buys it to test expose all deadly ingredients it has.
I’m definitely not trying it, no way LOL. I want me some of that old, “naturelle” food, they way God made and intended it to be.
So, they take the good old Smokey Mountain & Cherokee purple tomatoes….& ruin them, too. Also, Russian Krim. Those tomatoes are all open seeded, too. With a handy little p.s. ‘your insurance company will not cover any illness related to war, riot, or insurrection’ ….whether perp or victim, I’m suspecting?
Now I know why I never liked tomatoes, or very few veggies. All these years our parents said “eat your veggies, they’re good for you” Well they won’t be saying that pretty soon, but there won’t be too much that’s good for us anymore anyway. Oh Lord, get us out of this insane asylum.