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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

From:

http://laughlines.blogs.nytimes.com/



NEWS PARODY



From The Onion:

Tomato Genetically Modified
To Be More Expensive

PASADENA, CA—Geneticists at the California Institute of Technology  
announced Monday that they have developed a tomato with a 31 percent  
larger price tag than a typical specimen of the vine-ripened fruit.  
“By utilizing an exciting new breakthrough in gene-splicing  
technology, we’ve been able to manipulate this new tomato with  
recombinant DNA in such a manner as to make it nearly as pricey as a  
similarly sized tangelo,” said Dr. Lee Nolan, who headed up the  
project. “Genetically modified crops such as this will be instrumental  
in helping average grocers keep pace with unaffordable organic stores  
such as Whole Foods.” In addition to vastly surpassing similar produce  
in expense, the new tomato will reportedly wipe out four species of  
ladybugs.