Yeah, it wasnt the most rousing of harrison novels (im a huge stainless steel rat fan, myself)
oh, well, perhaps I'm just paranoid. yeah, pretty much. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > >
