I Support Genetically Modified tequila

[7th_Sephiroth]

yes i know its a lounge copycat of a GD post, but i do, the blur aguava cactus where tequila is distilled from is going extinct because the damn things take 10-15 years to grow, so they have genetically modified them to grow quicker and larger

[crispini]

1. I support ALL tequila.

All tequila is good tequila. Or is it? Discuss!

[7th_Sephiroth]

3. theres 2 kinds

100% blue aguava and the mixed kind that most people use for margaritas, i perfer the 100%

[edbermac]

2. Is the worm genetically modified too?

Imagine seeing THIS at the bottom of the bottle?? Holy Shit!!!

:wow:

[Igel]

4. "blur aguava"

I rather like that.

[7th_Sephiroth]

5. typo, supposed to be "Blue"

but Blur does fit with the effects

[Igel]

7. Doesn't it though?

(No intention to make fun of spelling, but the typo was just too apt.)

[kenny blankenship]

6. Tequila problems

Blue Weber Agave is in danger not because it takes years to grow a harvestable pina (the heart that tequila is made from) but because it has already been genetically modified by selective breeding.
The genetic similarity of existing blue agave plants has resulted in a uniform susceptability to a new disease: fusarium fungus.
As much as a third of the planted agave plants are being lost in a year. If that has levelled off, or reversed itself I don't know about this new information.

Tequila to answer the other poster doesn't contain a worm in in the bottle. One product called Mezcal, which isn't tequila, but similar, does.

Tequila is a HIGHLY regulated industry in Mexico with the tightest controls on what can be called tequila and what can go into it. A famous boutique label was shut down not to long ago because it was discovered by CRT officials that they were adding vanillin to their barrels.
Not fined, not cited or warned (or invited to participate in CRT regulations overhauls as they would be in the USA) but shut down.

Tequilas certainly ARE NOT all the same, controls on the methods of production notwithstanding. I don't want to get into a religious discussion about labels and so forth, but I would like to underscore one piece of information relating to the question of quality of which many Americans seem to be unaware. Most tequila consumed in America is not tequila but a mixture (Mixto) of 51% tequila, 49% cane liquor or other spirits. (If the product is "mixto" unfortunately it doesn't need to be labelled that way in the states) Dedicated tequila drinkers and you know who you are, don't need me to inform them of this, but obviously the ignorance of this situation is widespread.

If it doesn't say 100% de agave on the label, it isn't tequila!