tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post115040846816037533..comments2023-12-17T19:35:07.459-08:00Comments on Bouphonia: The Garden PathPhilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1150644563807220532006-06-18T08:29:00.000-07:002006-06-18T08:29:00.000-07:00Another point to consider is, when we humans consu...Another point to consider is, when we humans consume the meat and or milk from these cattle, what does the genetically altered corn do to our own bodies????? Man had better stop playing "God" before we are all destroyed.Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02029959039410979337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1150479914758241372006-06-16T10:45:00.000-07:002006-06-16T10:45:00.000-07:00DPR: Well said.ChiDyke: Thanks! BTW, I can't seem ...DPR: Well said.<BR/><BR/>ChiDyke: Thanks! BTW, I can't seem to comment over at your place...what am I doing wrong?<BR/><BR/>Dan: Good question.<BR/><BR/>Dizzy: Agreed. And enough people have recommended that book that I'm definitely going to have to read it.Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1150469931386519162006-06-16T07:58:00.000-07:002006-06-16T07:58:00.000-07:00On a related note -- Of the 45,000 items in the av...On a related note -- <BR/><BR/>Of the 45,000 items in the average American supermarket, 1/4 of them contain corn in one form or another. Berkeley biologist Todd Dawson tells Pollan, "When you look at the isotope ratios" — foods reduced to their chemical components — "we North Americans look like corn chips with legs."<BR/><BR/>The ascendancy of corn in the national diet — which has everything to do with economics and nothing to do with nutrition — has upended the natural order and created problems.<BR/><BR/>Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals<BR/> http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/arts/content/arts/omnivorereview0611.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-1150467827175195232006-06-16T07:23:00.000-07:002006-06-16T07:23:00.000-07:00they made application for approval as a human food...<I>they made application for approval as a human food so they do not have to keep the altered corn separate from edible corn.</I><BR/><BR/>does this mean they will be grown in the same fields, or that monsanto will be spared the expense of preventing cross-pollination, or both? yikes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com