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Exploding Watermelons
05-17-2011, 11:56 PM
From the Guardian:
"The flying pips, shattered shells and wet shrapnel still haunt farmer Liu Mingsuo after an effort to chemically boost his fruit crop went spectacularly wrong."
Exploding watermelons put spotlight on Chinese farming practices
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"What's the watermelon for?"
"I'll tell you -" "- what watermelon?"
Edit: More seriously, add this to the growing list of examples why I don't eat Chinese produce if I can help it.
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I remember that we turned off smilies forum-wide a year or two ago - people who expressed an opinion didn't like them. Can't help you with the other concerns, though...
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reminds me of the farmers who compete to grow the largest pumpkins.
If the melons take on water too fast the square/cube law bites them in the ass and they pop.
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Ok... I'll admit it... I would be morbidly curious in seeing a REAL clip of the fruit exploding.
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*Snrk!* As if the Chinese government in Fenspace would actually have anything to do with the banzai institute that didn't involve shackles and bayoneted rifles.
