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Date Posted: 15:44:25 07/01/03 Tue
Author: SYNTARSUS
Subject: Re: Genetic Engineering
In reply to: Rev Joe 's message, "Re: Genetic Engineering" on 21:56:23 06/30/03 Mon

Rev. Joe, my comments come after yours . . .

>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.

People think that environmentalists are insane, but I think that they are right about a lot of things. We DO need to practice good stewardship. If you read: 'What Would Jesus Eat?' You will find that the way they slaughter meat in slaughterhouses nowadays, is completely different from the more humane way that the Jews used to do it long ago. Now they sometimes accidently don't kill the animal right away. The animal will slowly bleed to death and go into shock and all of that, then be (basically) skinned alive and die piece by piece. It's disgusting!!!! The Jews would make sure they had killed it quickly & humanely. If they didn't, they were in trouble. When the animal is traumatized, blood is pumped into the meat, and the Jews are not supposed to eat the blood of animals. So, doing this ritual properly was very important, and not very often done unless it was for a special occasion. This is so different from our mass-hamburger marketing society. It's enough to make one sick!

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

Really? That's fascinating! No wonder bread was so important in Biblical times. You know: 'Give us this day our daily bread.' It must have been much more nutricious back then.

>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.

Gee. I wonder why we need fertilizer . . . Could it be because we don't take care of our crops the way we should?!?!? (Just like what you wrote in the statement below . . .)

>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."

That is just like with antibiotics. Viruses & bacteria - after a while of being exposed - tend to build up a resistance against it. Then, we have to make stronger and stronger antibiotics in order to combat the stronger & stronger bacteria. Then, our normal immune systems get weaker & weaker against these stronger growing viruses & bacteria. It's like the antibiotics are doing all the work for our bodies, our immunity gets weak & lazy, and the viruses get angry and fight back. (Though this analogy could be wrong.)

I wonder if antibiotics are the cause of some of these weird new viruses . . . Probably. They even use them A LOT in farm animals, even when the animals aren't even sick!!! They think it makes the meat 'safer' to eat!!!! How stupid is that? Safer? I don't think so! They're breeding killer viruses!

I hate to talk about TV, but on 'Daria' there's a made-up TV program that they watch called: 'Sick, Sad world'! To sum it up . . . (basically) . . . Yes. It is. It can be, anyway.

- SYNTARSUS

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