Evolution, Science & Religion (Evolution)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Monday, June 18, 2012, 15:32 (4323 days ago) @ David Turell

We genetically and chemically alter our foods so that we can produce more and more. This is actually one of my favorites because not only does it poison our environment, it poisons our bodies, and the feather in the cap is that we end up WASTING a very large percentage of it.
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> I don't think it is genetic alteration (frankenfoods) as chemical. When I was young and in Medical School the world did not have very much autism or Altzheimers. I think cooking with aluminum is one of the sources. Aluminum in dailysis units has caused trouble. We are built for a hunter-gatherer diet, and are nowhere close to it now.-
I absolutely agree about the hunter-gatherer diet and our departure for it. That is what I was talking about with our foods. Genetic alteration could work out ok if we understood it, but we don't. The chemicals I was referring to are pesticides, herbicides, growth hormones, steroids, and other ways that we 'enhance' our foods without fully understanding the impact it has on us.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.