New Zealand: ‘No Tears’ Onions

This article says that they have developed a new type of onion that when it is sliced it will not make people cry. They do this by "turning off" the gene that produces an enzyme that makes people cry when they cut into it.

I would think that's great but when I slice an onion I do not cry at all but if these onions have hormones that make cells less powerful it would probably make the onion taste different. That means that people should know what's happening to the onion. Generally when they change something in one way, it affects it in another way. So they shouldn't "turn off" the gene because what makes you cry is probably the thing that makes it taste good.