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26 July 2006

Gene-free tomatoes

FEEDBACK will not inquire why Roger Key started to read an elderly copy of the Daily Mail newspaper used, he says, for packaging. We are only grateful for the wonderful advert he sends, for seeds of the “Tomazing” tomato, promising both “sweetness without the calories” and “high sugar content”.

More remarkable than the product, though, is its genesis: “a remarkable breeding success story based on traditional methods not genetics”. So on what was it based? Animal sacrifice, giving the seedlings a good talking-to, or what?

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