| I don't buy rotten tomatoes, Ish. For as much of the year as possible, I buy locally grown organic tomatoes (they have taste, a very important thing for me in a tomato). Yellow, purple, orange, green stripes, all varieties of beautiful heirloom tomatoes! In the off-season, I buy hydroponically grown tomatoes that are also local. Sometimes in winter I will also buy tomatoes from Mexico, but they are organic as well, and none of them are GMO tomatoes. The problem with modern tomatoes is that the concept that tomatoes should be created for shelf life and nonbruisability takes all the flavor away. Tomatoes--and other produce too--should be grown locally. You should eat what is in season in your neck of the woods for the most part. This is what is good for the environment, and for your health as well. Cooked tomatoes are full of lycopene, which is great for your body. So if you must have tomatoes in the dead of winter, eat canned ones or make spaghetti sauce or something. There is absolutely no eventuality when choosing a tomato crossed with a fish gene is a good or necessary thing to do. |
