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To: 1_Rain_Drop
BTW, How do seedless grapes and seedless watermelon reproduce?

They have seeds!

BTW: Virtually EVERY food is Genetically modified. It use to be done through cross pollination, it can now be done genetically leading to more nutritious disease and pest resistant food sources.

It always strikes me as strange that everything we eat is so bad for us, yet the instances of food born diseases and poisonings have fallen to almost an unmeasurable level.

Everything we consume is killing us, yet people are living longer and longer.

20 posted on 12/19/2012 12:41:10 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Not only are we living longer, but I remember my grandmother in her late 50s. Despite being born in 1898 and raised in a Russian village until she was 18 and despite being a marvelous gardener who did all her own baking and canning and cooking from scratch, she developed Type II diabetes and died at age 60.

I compare pictures of her to my friends and family 10-35 years older than she ever was and the older current folks still look younger than she ever did and all are more active, even the 90+ year-olds. All the currently extant people have lived exclusively on what was available at the supermarket for the past 60 years or so.

OTOH, at least two people I know in their early 60s who are/were ardent organic eaters and, in one case, also a vegetarian, both of whom had access to the best preventive and acute medical care, are either dead of heart disease or have a diagnosis of advanced cancer. One woman under 50 has episodes of atrial fibrillation, despite an organic, vegetarian diet since the age of 18. All were physically active and devotedly followed a *healthy* (according to popular consensus) lifestyle.

All of this is anecdotal, but perhaps it indicates that food is secondary to genetics as to morbidity and mortality.


27 posted on 12/19/2012 1:21:44 PM PST by reformedliberal
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