Part of the perfect diet - No sugar, no grains, no processed foods.
Cue the Kanamits
I raise a large garden as well. However, Golden Rice is a very good product for 3rd worlders. Greenpeace is a bunch of commies bastards. I put anyone who is against something like golden rice in the same category as the idiots who pushed to outlaw DDT. Comfortable, well fed people should not be making decisions for less fortunate countries.
And the third world should starve?
I'm so sick and tired of GMO KOOKS.
The fact is, Monsanto has saved more lives than Hitler murdered. They save more lives than we kill every day in America in abortuaries.
You are part of the affluent First World. You'll likely never know what it is like to go hungry unless your Guru tells you to fast. But getting beta carotene into the diets of millions who don't otherwise get it means that hundreds of thousands will *live* and millions will keep their eyesight.
It's a diet which is by no means perfect, but the people hungry in Asia don't care much about your waistline.
Golden Rice is People!
Good for you, I am glad you have discovered what was ailing you. I have been extremely allergic to corn and wild rice (a grass seed) all of my life. Recently I have been having trouble after eating wheat. I do eat rice, however with no problem (so far).
>> I’ve lost 12 pounds in three weeks,
People in the third world don’t celebrate a loss of 12 pounds in 3 weeks. They die from that. Third worlders would love to have a “wheat belly”. First World problems are not Third World problems.
And so you’re spreading this communist bullshit responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of Americans? If ever there was a face of pure, unadulterated evil in the world, it’s that of these left-wing organizations leading innumerable people to horrible deaths so they can pat themselves on the back for associating their genocidal behaviors with “good eating.”
Monsanto and the rest of big ag are an example of fascism in the US and the world. They sue farmers whos crops are pollinated by wind of nearby GMO crops, and fight like hell any attempt to lablel gmo’s- forced into our food without proper testing. And the gov’t plays right along
Tremendous advancement has been made in crop efficiency, all by virtue of natural hybid tech. Once gmo’s are involved with patent rights involved, the “charity” of the super ag corporations becomes highly questionable.
It is amazing how many self proclaimd conservatives play right along with the gov’t/big ag aliance.
bfl
The GMO-seed sector of Big-AG is really in the fertilzer, herbicide & pesticde business, and the GMO-seed is merely the means for increasing and monopolizing those businesses, and the tradeoff is massively decreasing varieties of the seed-base of the world’s biggest crops.
The Irish potatoe famine did not happen just because most of Europe experienced a large and broadly spread potatoe blight at the time. The Irish potatoe famine happened because under control of the British colonial system in Ireland, Ireland had become a vast potatoe field for Britain, with more acreage in potatoes than anything else AND under that system they were growing mostly ONE variety-strain of potatoe. Europe was hit with the same potatoe blight, but with diversity of potatoes that Europe outside of Ireland was growing, Europe did not have the famine that Ireland did.
The tyranny of the experts comes from their convincing everyone that with their technology and expert opinion, they can prevent all our problems from happening again, and as they do they always and arrogantly ignore the conjoining throughout history of the certainty of unforseen circumstances and “murphy’s law”.
GMO - “the ‘perfect seed/crop’ “ IS about decreasing and monopolizing food crop-seed varieties and the so-called “humanitarian” benefits of GMO are a smokescreen, which will in time, via nature, prodoce food crop calamities never seen before.
Yes, Conservatives, we believe in “free enterprise”, however only fools believe that the adage “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” applies ONLY to the political sphere, and no where else, and the great moral philosopher who championed capitalism, Adam Smith, was no lover of monopolies.
There are 250 million children living in the tropics who are vitamin A deficient and they need this vitamin. Golden rice can deliver it to them because they eat rice every day and because that’s all that they can afford
The fact is vitamin A deficiency is the biggest killer of children in the world today. Unicef estimates that a little over eight million children die prematurely each year from all causes such as diseases like malaria, TB and HIV-Aids. But more than 25 per cent of them die from vitamin A deficiency, which is essential for eyesight and the immune system
Two million children a year are dying, and every year it is delayed, another two million kids are dying. The blood of that is on the hands of the people who have made it impossible to make an exception for golden rice.
Bears repeating: The blood of that is on the hands of the people who have made it impossible to make an exception for golden rice.
It is abhorrent that any FReeper would side with Greenpeace on anything, much less Golden Rice. Whose side are you on, anyway? Do you also consider Rachel Carson a hero?
Allowing millions of children to die from something that is absolutely preventable, whether it's vitamin A deficiency or malaria, is the apex of evil. Why anyone would stand with these sorry assed excuses for humanity is mind-boggling.
I raise a large garden and produce most of my own fruits and vegetables. After a recent spate of health problems, I decided to place myself on a very restriced diet; and among other things, I stopped eating all grain products...no wheat, rice, corn, barley, rye, or oats. I've lost 12 pounds in three weeks, feel better than I've felt in years, and my allergies -- from which I have suffered severely for almost 50 years -- have virtually disappeared!
And right after that post, you dropped dead?