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Sure: bring down CO2 levels. So probably not for a while.
Also, we breed for size and taste. That will also lead to lower nutrient density.
But we don't breed for taste, only for looks. Ask anyone who's been to Europe how much better their fresh food tastes compared to what's on North American store shelves.
Let's not pretend that Europe is a utopia. We're going through the same shit as North America, with fruit/veg that lacks taste, looks uniform, and goes off quickly.
Yep and it varies a lot by country, for example in the Netherlands I can pretty much only find tasteless water shaped like perfect round tomatoes, but in France I can still find all sorts of different varieties with amazing taste , ans natural looks (like coeur de boeuf).
Yeah most of the good veg here in England is from small organic growers, and that's too expensive for a lot of people. I grow my own tomatoes and they're yummy, the supermarket ones taste bland as fuck.
I guess by taste, I simply meant sugar content. Our fruits tend upp the size and sugar. Our vegetables tend to just up the size and in turn become bland and often watery.
Oh my god, yes.
Prices are (were?) Lower over there too. I literally ate like 4 or 5kg of apricots in less than a week over there.
If your comparison is to the US, one thing to note is that up until very recently, the EU provided more agricultural subsidies and had higher import tariffs.
I learned about how we made apple's shitty by breeding for appearance and got very bummed out.