At 10:27 PM 06/27/2001 -0400, you wrote: >>But mechanization would be difficult. > >Right, given the fragility of strawberries you underestimate the power of bioscience: I can easily imagine genetically-altered strawberries the size of basket balls with a thick skin, so that they can be harvested with machines. Consider how different commercial strawberries are already -- compared to wild strawberries. The latter are smaller than small marbles and have much more intense taste. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine "Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself." -- Richard Feynman.
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