>Specifically, I have to answer this question: why do genetically >altered/engineered/fiddled with fruits and vegitables taste so bad? > If this is true, then a lot of companies are wasting an awful lot of money! There was a posting, may be on this newsgroup or sci.bio, of a blind tasting of flavr-savr tomatoes and controls, and, as I recall, flavr-savr came out on top.