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Cornflakes in cereal killer warning [CLIMATE change could lead to "killer cornflakes"....]
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Posted on 05/13/2008 2:54:24 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Cornflakes in cereal killer warning

By Rosemary Desmond

May 13, 2008 03:28pm Article from: AAP

CLIMATE change could lead to "killer cornflakes" with the most potent liver toxin ever recorded, an environmental health conference has been told.

The effects of the toxins, known as mycotoxins, have been known since the Middle Ages when rye bread contaminated with ergot fungus was a staple part of the European diet, environmental health researcher Lisa Bricknell of Central Queensland University (CQU) said.

"People started suffering mass hallucinations, manic depression, gangrene, abortions, reduced fertility and painful, convulsive death," Ms Bricknell told the 10th World Congress on Environmental Health in Brisbane today.

"The rye bread, which was known as the staff of life, quickly became known as the sceptre of death."

The damage was done not from a single exposure but from many small doses of the toxins over a long period of time.

Mycotoxins can appear in the food chain as a result of the fungal infection of crops in the field or in storage, either by being eaten directly by humans, or by being used as livestock feed.

The most important group of mycotoxins in Australian maize is aflatoxins.

They could spread when temperature and moisture conditions were right and could affect crops including maize and peanuts and in some milk, dried milk products and some spices, Ms Bricknell said.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: digestiveissues; fud; globalwarminghoax; jedi; scaretactics; tinfoilhat
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To: Sub-Driver
Hokey Smokes, Bullwinkle ... I have a few memory cells left after all ... I (vaguely) remember back in my hip eye daze that ergot was a form of halucinogenic.

That's all I'll say about this .... because ... I ... forget ... the .... rest.

21 posted on 05/13/2008 4:28:30 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: Sub-Driver
"People started suffering mass hallucinations, manic depression, gangrene, abortions, reduced fertility and painful, convulsive death,"

That's it! I didn't really hear McCain's speach yesterday and become depress! I was having a hallucination from those corn flakes I ate! ...Uh, wait a minute...I didn't eat any corn flakes yestersay...I haven't had any in years...OH NO! It was for real!!!

22 posted on 05/13/2008 4:33:45 AM PDT by LRS
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To: EBH
A world full of frightened ignorant hungry toiling peasants is easier to control if you can ensure that they're frightened, ignorant, hungry and you have all the machine guns and control the corn,
23 posted on 05/13/2008 4:36:37 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Hussein Obama for Caliph 2008!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Global warming made me fat. It caused my gray, thinning hair. It made the dashboard crack on my Pinto. It’s the reason I had to move out of my parents basement at 35. It causes tooth decay. It was responsible for my divorce. It made my dog cough.


24 posted on 05/13/2008 4:45:37 AM PDT by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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To: buffyt

Read the labels. There’s corn starch in a lot of products. Of course, if you eat fresh meats and vegetables, and whole grains, you avoid the worst of everything anyway.

It’s the processed stuff that gets packed with “ingredients”.

(I’m no fanatic... I’m just saying...)


25 posted on 05/13/2008 4:47:00 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Sub-Driver

There goes my breakfast. Literally.


26 posted on 05/13/2008 4:47:13 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo (Earth - Taking care of itself since 4.6 billion BC)
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To: samtheman

Those ingredients will get you every time.


27 posted on 05/13/2008 4:51:20 AM PDT by Drawsing (The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
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To: Sub-Driver

Don’t fret. McCain is here to SAVE THE GLOBE!!


28 posted on 05/13/2008 4:51:28 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The GOP death march to the gravesite is underway.)
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To: Drawsing

I generally try to avoid anything in which the ingredient list says “continued on other side” or the items on the list read like the contents of an advanced chemistry set.

I particularly love the ones in which one of the ingredients gets a sub-list (in parenthesis) of its own.


29 posted on 05/13/2008 4:54:46 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: kb2614
I remember when the climate never changed, then Bush stole the election.

Perfect.

30 posted on 05/13/2008 4:58:50 AM PDT by Obadiah (I dream of the day when chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned!)
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To: samtheman

Ha! I’ve earned the gruging repect of the smarter NYC libs in my office. I dare say I’ve gotten some to rethink their positions.

As I commute on the train right now it’s still cold. I think I’ll go in and state as I often do:

“Everyone’s talking about global warming but nobody’s doing anything about it! Enough talk! Let’s make this global warming happen already!”


31 posted on 05/13/2008 5:12:35 AM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This plague is already upon us. Algore and cohorts exhibit the symptoms of having eaten the tainted corn flakes. They are not dieing fast enough, though.


32 posted on 05/13/2008 5:17:23 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: Sub-Driver

Global Warming is going to turn Tony The Tiger into a killer. Is there nothing that Global Warming won’t cause, or nothing the warmists won’t try to calim it will cause?


33 posted on 05/13/2008 5:56:23 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Sub-Driver

Ummm... yeah, Europe is a LOT colder than Texas...or even Iowa. And this plague hit Europe, during Europe’s COLD SPELL. So how, exactly, does this relate to global warming?


34 posted on 05/13/2008 6:09:38 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Sub-Driver; All

Would you feel better if stick figures were running back and fourth?


35 posted on 05/13/2008 6:13:36 AM PDT by bmwcyle (I always rely on God and Guns in that order)
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To: Sub-Driver

After my 1 1/2 year old Jack Russel terrier died, the vet had her liver examined and it was found that her liver was destroyed by an AFLOTOXIN. In other words, something moldy that she ate in the back yard. I say it was something moldy from the yard because the other dogs didn’t get sick and they all ate the same dog food.


36 posted on 05/13/2008 6:19:44 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter

Sorry about your dog.

Every now and then a high level of aflatoxin-contaminated corn gets into dog food. There seems to be a genetic predisposition for susceptibility.

Diamond pet food recall in 2005 was the most recent incident. There were reports of “dozens” of pet deaths, many with situations similar to yours - some multiple pet owners had only one pet die.

There is a dog food called Canine Caviar which sells a lamb and pearl millet mix. They do not advertise lower aflatoxin levels compared to brands made with corn, but it would be interesting to check.


37 posted on 05/13/2008 10:18:27 AM PDT by rusty millet
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To: Sub-Driver

The answer is to cap-and-trade aflatoxins obviously. /s


38 posted on 05/13/2008 10:32:55 AM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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To: Northern Yankee

“Could this be a “cereal killer”? ; )”

Ha haaa! Good one!


39 posted on 05/13/2008 11:56:10 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Impy
Outbreaks of St. Anthony's Fire, also known as ergotism occurred during the Little Ice age due to ergot contaminated rye bread/grain.

< http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=14891>

LSD is a derivitave of ergot.

40 posted on 05/13/2008 12:58:18 PM PDT by Mogollon (Vote straight GOP for congress....our only protection against Obama-Clinton, or McCain.)
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