On 12/04/2009 06:45 PM, Alexander Hollins wrote:
(If it's a little poisonous to humans, well, what's it doing in a
food crop to start with? And if it's not even a little poisonous to
humans, why are there restrictions on how much of the toxin can be
present in the plant if it's to be sold as food? Hmph.)
because people screamed "franken food" and insisted on it. cows eat
sevaral of the varities that cant be sold to humans, building up
concentrations well in excess of whats allowed, with no effects.
Cows aren't allowed to live long enough to show any long term effects.
when
several tons of starlight bt corn accidently got turned into taco bell
taco shells, no one got sick.
Not rapidly and intensely enough to make it obvious, no, that's correct.
I hate monsanto with the passion of a
fiery sun, but lets focus on their ACTUAL sins, please. cooking
makes bt totally harmless,
So we're told; me, I wouldn't know if that's really true.
and, mercury is poisonous, why do we allow
MERCURY in our foods.
We're not too happy about mercury, either.
But what foods are you thinking of? Personally, I don't eat fish
anymore; I think that's the big offender.
they went for insect resistance because that was the path of most profit.
Of course. It just didn't occur to me beforehand that it would be.
And whether or not BT is actually harmless to humans (forget the
butterflies and bees, let them hire their own lobbyists) the point was
kind of that BT corn showed the direction things were going, and nearly
all the rest is "proprietary" so I, at least, have no idea what's really
going on with, say, soybeans, but I would *guess* that it may involve
pesticides being built into the plants. But I have no idea what
pesticides might be involved... oh, well, perhaps I'm just paranoid.
Anyway I realize, looking over my posts, that I am once again guilty of
weighing in disproportionately (and somewhat provocatively) on OT
threads so I think I should cool it on this. (At least it's not religion.)
and it was a book long before a movie,
"Make room, make room!"
I read the book, didn't see the movie, but from what I heard the movie
was probably better than the book. Or anyway, more memorable.
and the word soylent is latin.
i am you, i believe it means
But in the book it just meant"soybean/lentil" mix, a meat replacement,
and its universal consumption was just one more annoying result of the
massive world overpopulation, and AFAICR the cannibalism thing was added
entirely by Hollywood. The whole bit, "Soylent Green is People!",
wasn't in the book at all.
The old geezer who dies dramatically in the movie after, I think, they
find out what soylent green is, in the book, just expired in a rather
tedious fashion as a result of bed pneumonia after busting his hip.
