Oh. It is often said that fruits and vegetables used to taste much better and that they were healthier but with a renewed. The i could immediately cotulla to shauns in paris is a balance of knowledge regarding old plan for. Between the old agronomy publications we find something special. In nutrition all composition table for fruits and vegetables it is 60 years old. It lists the fisherman and mineral content of each and every variety. And indeed over the last 60 years many fruits and vegetables seem to have lost some if they need traditional. So how did this happen. They did this american biochemist donald davis lectures on the subject. Im here to tell you about an important problem that many people are not aware of nutritional declines in foods. Davis works at the university of alston texas and has analyzed the development of 43 vegetable varieties between 950 and 999. I think that most of these declines are caused by increases in yield when you score up those nice nutrients per weig
Southern france they got. One of the last traditional seems pretty says in france lives that. John luke does not produce hybrid tomatoes. He creates what he calls old pariahs here. This is how we have 10 seeds. They go in a seed stay on the bottom and the skin close to the tongue has to look to you to. Everyone used to know this technique of producing seeds for themselves. Cycled through to the farmers knew that the next harvest depended on the seeds and they were very careful when producing them for the weeks for some of you ate the tomatoes yourself but the seeds were always the most important thing a small today no farmer produces them anymore but the Big Companies do that. A dying tradition yes almost an orthodox i teach. In this greenhouse theres only cultivates only the old farm growing ts. 100 percent. Effective also it seems a bit wild and chaotic because i only have a small area of land to work with it is that to make the most of the space i squeeze the tomatoes in close toget
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This hour europe is down a little bit. Were giving back just a little bit today after another great session but descent session yesterday. You can see if youre not listening on the radio, were down about 40 points on the dow jones. The nasdaq is going to benefit from the great numbers from google. It benefitted earlier this week by netflix and has i wouldnt say diverged from the other averages but certainly been much stronger than a relative basis. S p is down less than a point. In europe, there were green arrows after what has been a pretty good week and since last week when the feeling that this would be resolved favorably in terms of greece started and seeped into the markets. France. The only index at this point up but upright at a fifth of a point. Asia this morning is better with japan higher. The hang seng higher. And what were watching closely is shanghai up sharply. Up 3. 5 in a snap back. Crude continues to be on the weak side. Now down under 51. Next stop potentially under 5
Firm has no intention of tlashing outtlash thrashing out a takeover deal. Theres nothing to negotiation. Unilever too sales rebound despite emerging markets. The ceo is planning on another year of growth. Overall results 2. 9 underlying growth. This is the 7th year in a row that we have top and bottom line growth. Strong internals as well. And welcome everyone to the show. A number of earnings out of switzerland to cover. First, Credit Suisse beat expectations in the Second Quarter with profit of over 1 billion swiss francs. Earnings continue to suggest weakness in the Investment Bank. Lets get more with carolyn froms urich. As you said numbers were better than expected but the credit doesnt go out to him. Hes only been on the job for a couple of weeks. Yes he might have been very well prepared for that job but were talking about the Second Quarter here and that credit obviously still goes out to the outgoing ceo and im a little surprised to see that the Second Quarter shaped up better