[Mb-civic] Radioactive Potatoes

[Ian]

Cheeseburger (and radioactive fries?):

Radioactive potatoes?  Maybe.  But we don't really need them to be
radioactive in order to find ourselves mutating at some future point due to
the food we eat.  Consider.

First, Monsanto created rBGH (recombinany bovine growth hormone), which is
given to cows to produce more milk.  Yet rBGH failed numerous studies for
safety: in some studies (way too many, in fact), the cows developed
infections from the rBGH - which, of course, get transferred to the milk
they produce.  And who drinks milk?  Yeah, we may drinks a glass or two, and
put it in our coffee, but it is CHILDREN who drink the most milk.  And since
well over half (by some estimates over 75%) of the cows in the U.S. are fed
rBGH, I think it is safe to say (sadly) that we may be on the road to
causing genetic defects in our children, and our children's children etc.

Then Monsanto created genetically modified corn, which now makes up (by some
estimates) 80%-90% of the corn market.  Yet even if you don't eat a lot of
corn (either fresh (an ironic word now...), canned, etc.), 50% of corn is
turned into high fructose corn syrup, which is in every single flavored
and/or sugared drink on the market, from Coca-Cola and Snapple to
you-name-it.  In fact, according to one statistic, each of consumes about 22
POUNDS of high frustoce corn syrup each year.  Neat, huh?

Finally, Monsanto then created the bT potato, a hybrid which actually
creates its own pesticide.  In other word, the pesticide is actually part of
the potatoes DNA, which means when we eat bT potatoes, we are consuming the
pesticide within.  It is estimated that 75% of all french fries - including
McDonalds, the single largest purchaser of bT potatoes - and 75% of all
potato chips are made with bT potatoes.  So here again, we are consuming
something that may very well be causing slow and gradual, but nevertheless
definite, mutations.

Given all this, I suppose I'd opt for radioactive potatoes: at least I'll be
able to get around better, since I'll glow in the dark!

Peace.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cheeseburger" <maxfury at granderiver.net>
To: <mb-civic at islandlists.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 4:37 AM
Subject: [Mb-civic] Radioactive Potatoes


> Radioactive Potatoes
>
> You remember the scene in "Close Encounters Of The 3rd Kind" where the man
> and his wife are sitting at the dinner table with their 3 kids, and they
> pass the mashed potatoes to him and he just slowly keeps spooning them
onto
> his plate artistically until he has a mountain of them, and all his family
> has just been staring at him all this time, and he looks up and sees them
> staring and says something like "I guess you noticed there's something
> strange with dad lately..."  then he pauses and adds "But don't worry, I'm
> still dad..."  And then the guy just starts to cry because as he put what
> he couldn't figure out "This means something...  This is important..."
> ..?   Well, this isn't about that.
>
>
> Radioactive Potatoes in America:
>
> http://www.606mag.com/main.php?id=38
>
> It's in the name. Microwaves use micro-waves of radiation to cook food.
> Maybe the Soviet Union was on to something when they banned microwaves in
> 1976. But we were too preoccupied with the nuclear arms race to notice
that
> we were eating radioactive potatoes and electrically charged Lean Cuisine.
> Ninety percent of American homes have a microwave as a part of its nuclear
> unit.
>
>
> Chernobyl Potatoes After The "Accident":
>
>
http://www.chernobyl.info/en/Projects/Igovka/Chernobyl/IgovkaafterChernobyl
>
> To our surprise we understood that there were no other places, I mean
> uncontaminated places, and we must live here in Belarus and undertake some
> measures to clean it up, to grow vegetables and fruit, we had to learn how
> to live in an area contaminated wish radiation. In Kaluga region we were
> told that in spring, potatoes from Belarus were bought for sowing and they
> were worried about how they would dig up the radioactive potatoes in the
> autumn.
>
>
> Which brings us to the story of sitting talking to a retired bigrig
trucker
> I know a while back and him telling me how he used to pull right up to
> fields somewhere in Nevada or somewhere, where they did all those nuclear
> etc tests, and they would just fill his truck up with potatoes grown
there,
> and he'd drive off somewhere down the long roads of North America and
> deliver them and then someone would cook them and eat them, and then
> another truck would pull up and they would fill that one.
>
> Oh well, I just always wondered if people ate "Radioactive Potatoes" after
> talking to that trucker, and put that in my search engine.
>
> I guess they still do.
>
>
>
> Cheeseburger
>
> - Where has the sparrow gone now that I need its song.
>
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