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To: TimF who wrote (264662)	5/23/2008 3:44:25 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You talked about how there has been an attempt in the last 3 to 5 years to increase food quality but how for 30+ years before that it had decreased, and your example was red delicious apples. Yes, that is the case. The realization that something should be done was in fact largely motivated by the fate of the Red Delicious apple. However the new methods are being applied to all Washington apples. Not sure what your confusion is. Quite relevant to your argument, because your argument only deals with fruit (and really only with one type of apple), to try to make a point about all food. Nonsense once again. The post you are responding to pointed out additional ones, and if you had any knowledge about produce you would understand the issue is not restricted to one variety of apple, and indeed is not restricted to fruit either. In any case the subject isn't really food, let alone produce, or just red delicious apples, but the larger issue of increasing quality of items across the board. I was pointing out that one needs to be careful about the metric for "quality". I gave a specific example of how quality decreased in the industry until the industry woke up and started to do something about it. You might want to spell out what "quality" metrics you have in mind. As I pointed out, appearance and availability had been very important metrics, but various segments of the fresh produce industry has now decided that eating quality might be more important, and they have changed grading rules to reflect this. Not that you would be aware of any of this "nuance", since you don't seem to even be aware of the issues.