RE: [pf] Risks, imposed or chosen

by David A

17 December 2000 20:18 UTC

tully wrote:
>> What foods do you currently eat that you believe are "nature 
>> created?" Very few, in fact.
> 
> Whole food cookery is still possible as we have not yet reduced 
> all our  foods to chemical pablums.  Any whole fruit, vegetable,  > 
> grain, meat, etc.  that is not genetically modified is as nature 
> created it

Actually very few of the vegetables in your typical produce section are 
as nature created them. Potatoes aren't. Corn doesn't exist naturally 
(it's been breed over the centuries from teosinte, which is a veritable 
weed). Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, and collards don't exist 
naturally. Nor brussels sprouts--they were developed in the 19th 
century.

>From Alan McHughen's "Pandora's Picnic Basket," p. 70:

"...almost none of the foods we now consume existed when human 
civilization arose some 40 thousand years ago.... Those of us who demand 
only natural, unmodified food are necessarily limited to such a 
selection as wild berries, some fish, perhaps watercress, and whatever 
wild animals might be trapped and slaughtered...."

> Do you work for the biotech industry?

No.
 
>>> But...guess what? Science has turned out to be really really
>>> wrong on this one.
>>
>> It's customary to offer proof and evidence when making bold
>> assertions,
>> if you want to be taken seriously. Or is that too much bother?
> 
>> Are you denying that there is plenty of evidence that mother's 
>> milk is superior to baby formula?  

Oops--sorry about that one. I thought Vicki's comment 'science has 
turned out to be really really wrong on this one' pertained to GMOs, not 
formula and mother's milk. It's a little confusing in her paragraph.

David