The same thing has happened to pears (used to be hundreds of varieties widely grown) and pork, which veered dangerously close to the color, texture, and flavor

The same thing has happened to pears (used to be hundreds of varieties widely grown) and pork, which veered dangerously close to the color, texture, and flavor of Styrofoam in the 90s before they started breeding some of the tasty genes back in from the vestigial show pigs. Thank god for the 4-H breeders.