Apparently with ethanol as the latest and greatest form of energy, corn prices are going so high that the cost of corn syrup which is used as a sweetener in many products is impacting the prices of those products. According to a Wall Street Journal article, Seeing Sweet Savings, Heinz is developing new hybrids of sweeter tomatoes to address the issue in their products (think ketchup.
On the other side of the tomato world, whenever I got to my local grocer, there, right by the cash register, are the heirloom tomatoes. If you aren't sure what I'm talking about, they are the icky looking tomatoes sold at farmers markets coming in a spectrum of yellows, greens, reds and oranges and ranging from gigantic monsters to little tiny ones. I've only tried them a few times, quite delicious. These are supposed to be the non-hybrid tomatoes.
So what direction will food take in the future? If colonists were sent to another planet, would they take the heirloom tomato seeds or would they take those of the sweeter hybrids?
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