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Date Posted: 21:56:23 06/30/03 Mon
Author: Rev Joe
Subject: Re: Genetic Engineering
In reply to: june 's message, "Re: Genetic Engineering" on 21:32:54 06/30/03 Mon

>this is why i don't eat corn and mostly stay away from
>any corn products. once upon a time corn was a
>natural thing, and it had food value. then we learned
>to make hybrid forms that produced more and more and
>more ... each time it became less valuable. you want
>to talk about empty calories? corn is right up there
>with soda. in order to get something relatively close
>to what was the natural form you have to buy either
>animal feed or what they now call "indian corn". it
>was a great idea to feed the starving, but without
>nutrients, it kinda backfired, if you ask me. i bet
>there are many other forms of genetic engineering that
>have some important feature that is hollow.
>

The other thing to be aware (or beware) of is how the crops are grown. A major reason corn and other crops have less nutritional value is because of modern farming techniques, which deplete the soil by too much growing and not enough rest. Prior to WWII all farms were organic and the farmers would rotate crops - for example planting corn in a field one year, then spinich the next. The corn would take certain things out of the soil that the spinich would put back, and visa-versa. Then every few years certain fields would be planted with a cover crop (oats, clover, ect...) and allowed to "rest." The soil would rejuvinate itself.

Years ago wheat had a protein content of around 40 percent. Now it's about 8 percent.

Since WWII, and the rise of corporate farms with their attendant demand for greater and greater profits, these natural practices of Earth Stewardship have nearly died out. The first commonly used chemical fertalizer was nitrogen, which happened to be in great supply left over from arms manufacturing. Someone needed to make a buck.

Add to this the new "frankenfoods" which have not been tested (in fact each of us is a guinea pig for the corporations) and one can wonder if it is safe to eat at all. Not that I couldn't miss a few meals. And the claim that the "new" crops are more weed and bug resistant is a misnomer - they actually mean the crops can take much larger doses of weed and bug killer, which is only helping to produce new insecticide/herbacide resistant bugs and weeds! Ever hear of evolution? There's actually a horror story about this subject in the book, "Surf Zombies of Quarter Moon Beach."

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