{"id":375,"date":"2009-03-02T17:22:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T17:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2009-03-02T17:22:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T17:22:57","slug":"mutant-produce-now-comes-complete-with-stickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/mutant-produce-now-comes-complete-with-stickers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutant Produce Now Comes Complete with Stickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i722.photobucket.com\/albums\/ww230\/mcolletterogers\/Artwork%20for%20Work\/100_0707.jpg\" alt=\"Hybridized fruit now sports brightly colored, impossibly sticky skin growths\" width=\"316\" height=\"239\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hybridized fruit now sports brightly colored, impossibly sticky skin growths<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Do you remember when you could buy a pear, wash it, then eat it?\u00a0 Not anymore.\u00a0 Mad scientists have successfully hybridized every last produce species.\u00a0 Shortly after harvest, fruits and vegetables now develop a brightly colored, impossibly sticky scab on the outer skin.\u00a0 Being highly toxic, the scab must be removed before eating, presenting consumers with an annoying conundrum: Gouge the little devil out with a fingernail (if you have one), and risk packing your nail with pear pulp?\u00a0 Or slice off the scab, losing a good part of the fruit and dirtying a knife in the process?\u00a0 Whichever route you follow, the best part is saved for last:\u00a0 tossing the scab into the trash, there to join millions of others, further clogging already overflowing landfills.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m back to gouging one of those darned stickers from my pear this morning, wondering why a paper sign attached to a box of fruit can&#8217;t adequately identify the contents?\u00a0 Guess it&#8217;s another reason to buy from the farmer&#8217;s market. . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember when you could buy a pear, wash it, then eat it?\u00a0 Not anymore.\u00a0 Mad scientists have successfully hybridized every last produce species.\u00a0 Shortly after harvest, fruits and vegetables now develop a brightly colored, impossibly sticky scab on the outer skin.\u00a0 Being highly toxic, the scab must be removed before eating, presenting consumers &#8230; <a title=\"Mutant Produce Now Comes Complete with Stickers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/mutant-produce-now-comes-complete-with-stickers\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,5,17],"tags":[238,416,550,566,593,615],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-make-vegetables-taste-good","category-green-kitchen","category-food","category-opinion-and-editorial","tag-fruits","tag-overpackaging","tag-stickers","tag-sustainable-eating","tag-trash-and-landfills","tag-vegetables","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}