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areallivehuman -> RE: Food: The Ultimate Secret Exposed (8/5/2010 3:02:08 AM)
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To blithely say the upswing in cancer is simply because people are living longer is to hide your head in the sand. Every hospital I can think of in a 50 mile radius has added a "cancer center" in the last 15 years. I won't disagree that people are living longer, but I don't recall people in their 40's and 50's getting cancer in such numbers. Look around and see how many people you know who have been touched by it. TV commercials for cancer services, doesn't that speak volumes for the size of the target audience. Cancer is now a billion dollar industry. I reckon more people will make a living from cancer than die of cancer this year.
Genetically modified food. Not inherently bad. Yes it has helped to produce a "cheap, plentiful food source". That is good. But we sometimes do not understand the consequences. For example, celliac disease is human intolerance to modified wheat, hence the "gluten free" craze. Genetic modification can be used for good or evil. For instance, the seeds a farmer buys today are modified so that they are able to grow and bear fruit, but are unable to reproduce, the seeds are infertile, the plant is unable to proagate as natue intended. You may not find this disturbing, but I do.
Chemically modified food. I swear that scientists have isolated the part in cocaine that is addictive and it is present in diet Coke. I have some experience in addiction and in talking to people who drink 4-6 diet sodas a day, they're addicted. I'm rewarding myself, I can't have another until this time, I'm stressed, etc. And I believe that food manufactorers want us fat and hungry, in a cycle of the more we consume the more we want.
I remember talking to my vet about my cats weight. I asked him, " I remember being able to leave a bowl of dry food out and always filled, and my cats were never overweight." (My cats have always eaten only dry food.) He looked me straight in the eye and said, "Well, they like to sell cat food." Do you believe that that mindset could make the corporate transition to human consumption? I do. I'm old enough to have actually seen the TV commercials (I think for Dow) that promoted "better living through chemistry.'
Have you noticed that girls seem to be hitting puberty younger and younger? I think that it's the constant ingestion of growth hormones in milk. Talk to someone sometime who works on a large dairy operation. The cows get chemicals to make their feces a liquid, another chemical so they don't feel the cold in the winter, another to hasten their growth so they can start producing milk earlier. Where do all these chemicals end up. Our bloodstreams.
I could go on, but I'm late for my morning walk.
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