I saw this article today.  I always hear about China's 2000 plus years of history and knowledge but they sure haven't learned from the wests past mistakes.  I saw a program where there are regions in china that have no bees.  In the future the most valuable resource will be clean land.  I wonder if those were Brunswick watermelons?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110517/ap_on_re_as/as_china_exploding_watermelons

No need to feel awkward. Facts are facts. We either learn or are doomed to repeat them.

LOL TMC!   Brunswick Watermelons!  :)

We shouldn't mess with Mother Nature.  It says people misused the chemical.

It says they misuse insecticides, as well.  That's a shame.

noss

JUST few(只是极少数人的个别行为，不能代表全体）

JUST FEW (这只是少数，不能代表全部）

Sounds like a load of BS. I have that happen to some of my watermelons and I use no hormones. Must have been a slow day at AP.

Watermelons are very unique.
I have to agree with Ruben.

They must have tried to harvest them during or after a rain fall is one of my guess's. Some farmers prefer to load them at night when the air is cool.

Not a good idea to load melons in a dry van after a rain fall either.
Vents don't help. Imagine the heat inside the trailer with the wet melons just slowly cooking.

Every smell a rotten melon?

In my uneducated opinion, I think there is more to what they are saying as to what happened across the pond.

I read the article.

They said they applied the hormone to late, close to harvest, and it caused it to expand too quickly. It is suppose to be applied early in the season but only to thick rind types. The thin ones can not handle the extra pressure of expansion.

The actually said it turned normal mature seeds inside white instead of normal black. Good fertilizing, water and sun, is good enough for my taste buds.

Not to take this even further:

But I wonder how many people realize a certain % of containments-bugs, byproducts, etc are allowed in food- otherwise not much would be allowed on store shelves.

In otherwords- That can of Tomato sauce is not 100% tomato sauce-.oo1% is other.

Just a fact

I forgot about this, I love marinated artichoke hearts and I opened a jar of a major brand and thought they tasted funny, sort of like rubber.  On closer inspection I found two latex glove fingers in the jar.  I should have sent them in to the customer relations department but I left them in a cup and by the time a thought about it they had dryed up into something unrecognizable.  Maybe I could have received a couple of free cases or a  life time supply?  I hope what little I did eat were artichokes?

One word-Yikes!