06-20-2018, 03:25 AM
The strawberry papaya is a GMO
There is a natural strawberry papaya, as well as the Sun Up GMO strawberry papaya. GMO papaya's were developed by a scientist at Cornell University back in the 1990's. Without the original Rainbow GMO variety, there would not be a commercial papaya industry on the Big Island, as a majority of the fruit was damaged by ringspot virus. Rainbow GMO papaya is resistant to ringspot virus.
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
There is a natural strawberry papaya, as well as the Sun Up GMO strawberry papaya. GMO papaya's were developed by a scientist at Cornell University back in the 1990's. Without the original Rainbow GMO variety, there would not be a commercial papaya industry on the Big Island, as a majority of the fruit was damaged by ringspot virus. Rainbow GMO papaya is resistant to ringspot virus.
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
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