phoenix said:
This is off topic but if many of us had left it to nature we would be dead.
You're right, left to nature many of us may be dead, but we could say equally, that because we HAVEN'T left it to nature, a whole lot of us have died and another whole lot of us who haven't died have had our health compromised by too much manmade change to our foodstuffs and the food chain whilst our bodies, of course, haven't adapted to those change. The problem with scientists is they create all these products, preservatives etc., but they forget that the human body may not be able to process them without being harmed.
My Mum constantly repeated the same thing over and over as she got older when she ate certain foodstuffs and we all thought she was just being a pernickety old fart at times. She would have me and my sister demented while we scoured the shops for different types of bread because the last loaf 'wasn't the same'. She'd taste a slice and say "It's not the same ..." We'd say, "The same as what?" She'd say "The same as it used to be, they're putting something in it now and I can taste it and taste the difference." She also used to love a Kit Kat with a cuppa and then one day we got the same response "Ewwww ... yuk ... it's not the same." Sure enough I tasted it and it wasn't the same taste as before. I checked the ingredients and there were a few different ingredients that hadn't been on the list before, one of them was a sweetener.
But it wasn't just taste - she developed ulcerative colitis in her 60s which just happened out of the blue. She'd had asthma since the her 40's and as she got older her system became more sensitive and incidentally, so did mine. I followed a similar pattern. My whole family is very sensitive to chemicals in food and otherwise and we seem to detect even small changes in our foodstuffs that others may not notice.
While we're looking at Modern Wheat I think we should also look at the Modern Human Body and whether it's adapting and evolving over generations to cope with chemical additives and GM foods. Are we now breeding children whose systems can cope with it all, or are we breeding children who are developing illnesses at a young age because they can't cope with it?
That programme on TV the other night about children and food showed two groups of kids each having a party. Group A was given traditional party foods, sausage rolls, cakes, biscuits, sweets, jelly, ice cream etc. and Group B was given whole foods, sandwiches, meats, fish, fruit, juice etc. They were then observed for an hour or so afterwards and were scored on how many times they hit out at each other, fought, were cruel, shouted, screamed. The parents also observed them. There was a significant difference in behaviour between the two groups. Group A were badly behaved in general, with a lot of hitting and fighting. Group B were placid, quiet and acted kindly towards each other. Basically their nervous systems weren't being overstimulated by the **** in their food and the parents were gobsmacked.
We can control nations by what we feed them, perhaps our Governments should sit up and take notice.