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'Tear-Free' Onion in the Works
RedWolves2 writes "CNN has an article about how scientists in Japan may have discovered a way to make onions easy on the eyes without taking away from the taste. My grandfather always used to tell me to eat onions because it would put hair on my chest (oh how he was right). I wonder if this new 'tear-free' onion would work in the same way?"
Until we can buy these tearless onions, one tip (I've been told, I've never tried it) is that you can put a piece of bread in your mouth while you cut them. Or you could just gouge your eyes out of your sockets.
As far as getting rid of the hair on your chest caused by onions:
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The Onion always make me laugh, not cry.
Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape
After you peel it, but before you cut it, you can rinse it off with water and that helps out quite a bit.
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My grandfather always used to tell me to eat onions because it would put hair on my chest (oh how he was right).
Fortunately, RedWolves2's bio clarifies that he is, in fact, a man.
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Tear free onions are nice, but fart free beans would be the greatest invention since sliced bread! People would line up to buy those.
How ya like dat?
Tear-free onion?
How about a heartless artichoke?
Most of the foods eat have been genetically manipulated the old fashioned way - Selective breeding.
Plants have been changed to have bigger yeilds that ripen at the same time. In some cases (such as corn) the differences between the domesticated version and the wild cousin is drastic. Plants also have been manipulated to remove genes that cause bitterness.
Animals have been changed to be larger, slower, dumber and to carry more meat on their frame.
The problem is that the words 'Genetically Modified' scares a lot of people (like the words 'Nuclear' and 'Radiation'). But there is a whole world of difference between transferring genes from two unrelated organisms and removing or enhancing the genes of a single organism.
I don't see anything wrong with enhancing already existing genes, or removing genes that provide undesirable traits in our food. What you find in the supermarket is different from what you'll find in the wild. Going back to the selective-breeding analogy, nobody has a problem with seedless grapes. There's not much of a difference between finding a random seedless mutation and making a seedless mutation.
Switching genes between organisms are another story. I don't have a problem with adding vitamins to plants that normally lack them. (Adding vitamin A to rice could reduce a lot of blindness, for example). Other cases need a closer look though.Then again, if you want to worry, probably massively dosing our livestock with antibiotics will hurt us more in the long run.
Just my 2 zorkmids,
Dasunt