WHAT'S EATING YOU??

Ever wonder.. about those giant tomatoes in your salad or curries, never spared a thought about why it was so big?

Hold that thought!

Second query, must have sunk your teeth into one of them over-sized juicy apples, and never questioned it's size or the flavor, right?

Wager big, Vegas-money here, nobody really gives a once over, visually or otherwise, before you dig-in to anything on the meal table.

Not a big deal at all. But maybe it should BE!

Here come some answers but they are not really refreshing or relieving.

These new-age MUTANT ninja vegetables are actually mutated vegetables and fruits forced to outgrow their actual size and therefore mandated to taste different (and not at all in a very fulfilling manner).

Now that it's up for debate, think point of origin for the delicacies, next stop how did they grow so different from it's absolutely "normal cousins." Not getting ravenous here, but it's generally agreed, they taste way better and they pump more nutrition.

Scientifically speaking, these freaks of fruits.. and veggies are called genetically engineered  organisms, also genetically modified organisms, for short - GMOs.  They are organisms whose genetic material have been altered using genetic engineering techniques.

In this process DNA molecules from different sources are used which are combined into one molecule to create a new set of genes.    

Bhutan is a nation adamant to stay green and promote green but economic development demands a little leeway from the age old stand. Currently, the agriculture ministry has a ban in place, on import of GMO  products BUT it does allow imports setting a limit to the level of GMO contents. Earlier in 2000 a ministerial decree was issued which completely forbid the import of GMO products or materials.


There's a bigger picture here, taken into wholesome account:

!!BIGGER PICTURE!!(:-)

A wise move for Bhutan to have allowed the small flexibility. Bhutan's 35% food supply is dependent on imports from countries where modern bio-technology practices are on a full swing.


Take for instance, Bhutan's closest neighbor and supplier, BALEH-BALEH India, allows GMO contents up to one percent and sometimes even more.

    

Also with  Holy! FDI and the Economic Development Policy (EDP) in place, not many alternatives but to sort the mismatch.

SO Like it or not, modernization is upon your digestives in gastronomically mutated proportions.

"Slowly undergo the metamorphosis, in small doses, till you are a genetically modified digestive system." [in the voice of Megamind]:-)

Or perhaps, it's not that terrible. If there was the danger of a whole nation turning into a cirque du freak, Bhutan (from the back seat) would have already witnessed a live version of the RESIDENT EVIL, in the rest of the advanced world.

On the other hand better check-in on PESTICIDES,..