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How about just stop growing shitty tomatoes? Fuck.

The tomatoes I eat taste great, because I don't buy tomatoes grown by ignorant assholes who don't understand how plants work.

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The farmers understand both how plants work and how markets work. They have optimized their plants to maximize production for the market forces they experience - they get paid by weight for nice-looking tomatoes that can be shipped long distances without degrading. Taste doesn't factor into it.

I'm pretty sure that not understanding plants is not a problem that industrial agriculture has.

And yet their tomatoes taste like shit. I disagree.

They just target a market you are not part of.

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