| Topic Name: |
The "You have all failed" recap. |
| Message Name: |
southern kim |
| Date Posted: |
06/08/2005 |
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we on the west coast cover it by simply accepting all of his rants as gospel, and airing them accordingly..sorry.. most pros i know just don't work that way.. |
| Message: |
NATURE is constantly changing the chemical makeup of foods through normal genetic mutation and evolution. Lima beans have a trace of hydrogen cyanide in them, and nature put it there, not agribusiness. All potatoes have a trace of arsenic, courtesy of nature. These are just 2 of thousands of examples of naturally occurring toxicants in foods. The key is in the DOSAGE; not the mere presence of a toxin.
There's nothing wrong with "organic" foods (a complete chemical misnomer). But if major food producers didn't use insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, and manufactured fertilizer, starvation on this planet would skyrocket. It's easy for a "boutique" farm to grow small crops without synthetic compounds. That has nothing to do, however, with feeding the world. With advances in genetic engineering, fewer pesticides are needed because agricultural scientists are engineering crops which are more naturally resistant to insects and disease.
Everything I'm saying, by the way, is supported by long peer-reviewed science in the relevant journals and by the UN WHO and Agricultural Organizations.
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