Re: More than 80 percent of the corn, soybean and cotton grown in the United States is genetically engineered.
- From: Doug Freyburger <dfreybur@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:26:06 +0000 (UTC)
ViLco wrote:
In fact, when did allergy and intolerance to gluten start to spread?
Ask an archeologist about the bones of a hunter gather society and the
bones of a grain farming society. If it doesn't have to be those
specific disorders then the answer is when humans started eatign grain
as their predominant staple food.
When we
started messing up with wheat circa 50 years ago, using crossbreading and
exposure to radioactivity to accelerate the many generations and allow the
selection of high yield wheat verieties (like the italian Creso) in a bunch
of years instead of many decades.
That was also the start of a societal trend damning meat and praising
low fat so the percentage of calories from grain went why up. That was
also the dawn of the fast food industry and an escalation of "super
sized" meals.
Gluten intolerance was never heard of in my area until the 60's, and was
very limited till then. Nowadays it's almost normal.
People still tell my I'm making it up when I decline to eat wheat.
There was a lot of ignored and undiagnosed intolerance then I say.
I know that radioactive bombed seeds and GMO seeds are two different things,
but they both bring to a different genetic patterns.
Agreed, but there are so many changes it is very hard to point at one
and have any certainty it's the core problem. Think of people who
refuse to have their kids vaccinated because the vaccines may cause
damage. Even the low chance of getting the disease in question is far
worse on the average and each kid not vaccinated is another starting
point for an epidemic. People are not rational about stuff and that
includes seeing a long list of explanations then focusing on one. It
ignores all of the other causes. And I've only listed three others.
There's one type of selective breeding that I'm not worried about.
Folks are selectively cross breeding with wild or nearly wild varieties
for a specific trait and then doing selection to move that chosen trait
into the general population of the crop. That has wider possibilities
than simple selection. The old concept of "new blood" still applies
just more carefully done.
.
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