THE TRAGICOMEDY OF FOOD COSMETICS
By Dr. R Sudarshan
If you drive along the Bogadi Gaddige main road today, beyond the borders of our home city, you will see heaps of firm-bodied mangoes castaway on the road shoulders and the gutter. That's essentially the food cosmetics gone terribly wrong.
These tons are not mature enough to ripen as fruits. But they have dark stains on parts of their skin, owing to rains, humidity, and lack of sun. They are pesticide washed, of course. But are neither acceptable to wholesalers nor retailers as they are blemished. And they cannot be turned into fruits because they are plucked a moment too early and even ethylene or calcium carbide won't give them the uniform pink yellow hue that the customers love.
Stain, blemish, crooked shape, rugged skin, uneven colors, or varying size are cosmetic identities of human perception that can only promote an industry of pest venom and deny us the delight of nature. And of course, that can also make some farmers bankrupt and give them a thought of killing themselves.
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THE COLOSSAL SECOND WAVE OF NATURE - WATER APPLES
By Dr. R Sudarshan
Have you ever had a second thought about why the second wave of nature is immense?
The surface waves that come after the body waves in an earthquake are an order of magnitude stronger. The second wave of a Tsunami is the one that inundates. The second wave of the Pandemic sent humanity shivering on its knees.
We were just recovering from the first wave of water apples that occurred at the farm last month, sending half a ton of fruits to the market where we hardly sold any. Just then this week, the second wave occurred. Even bigger, even prettier, and much more of a pink riot as if a red carpet is laid for the birds and squirrels on branches between the leaves.
Don't eat. Don't worry. Just visit a farm where the water apples hang. Because that's the biggest thing on the planet after the big bang.
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