
Food history: everything you wanted to know
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What Is the Oldest Genetically Modified Food?
We've been selectively breeding crops and cattle since the year dot. Butiproper genetic modification of crops that can be commercialized, i think it might be 19 92. And laurelise x o asks, when were addatives first introduced to food? Define adjective at that point. I'm assuming that he means petro chemical adjectives in which case we're looking really at the late nineteenth century. So petro chemical food dies. O o god, if you could dye it purple, die it purple. Late nineteenth century. This is so called, get yourself petrochemical food die. Petrochemical food flavoring. Add it to your ice cream. Yes, sir.
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