[Aliska]

I don't exactly understand about wheat although my grandfather and the others grew wheat; they planted more diversified then and rotated crops. In my young life, I spent time with my father and farm business and remember that farmers often purchased seed, don't remember talk about saving it. When I was a teen I grabbed a pink soybean out of a bag (maybe B4 gm but treated) and ate it, was told I shouldn't have. No, I shouldn't but it didn't seem to hurt me.

But I can see the upside of modern methods, too. So they spray green or ripening wheat with glysophate to cause the stalks to start dying (fast) which causes the plant to detect that it needs to optimize and send all remaining energy to the kernels?

The other thing is patenting and controlling plant material. I can certainly understand patenting seeds developed by the company but how far the patent net extends I don't know.

We can still freely buy and save flower and vegetable seeds although I suppose some vegetables are gm and possibly sterile. I don't know that a seedless watermelon would necessarily be poison though.

Which reminds me my partner was telling me about a seedless red raspberry growing along the road at his place. I get all excited about stuff like that and used to go hunting for the unusual. I was regretting that I missed the opportunity to propagate seedless red raspberries and grow at home. But maybe they are already available. I just thought it was extremely unusual plus being older, would rather not ingest too many of the seeds like I did with abandon when I was younger.

There's so much talk about gluten intolerance. I thought it was some fad except some time ago when I learned that a very few Catholics couldn't receive communion because of celiac disease (gluten intolerance). But if it is as you say, maybe eating wheat that could be contaminated with glysophate and other sprayed chemicals wouldn't be so good.

Then I thought of the biblical injunction about taking no thought about what you shall eat or what you shall drink, presumably within reason. And bread which I think was made with white flour or even whole wheat was the "staff of life" and the most symbolic of all the plants. Every culture seems to use white flour for millenia.

[logi_cal869]

Gluten intolerance and Celiac are closely-related conditions, one being merely a named condition for symptoms resulting from complications of the prior.

A doctor was curing Celiac 70 years ago, but his findings were supplanted by an illegitimate study upon which the current foundation is rooted.

“Gluten-free” is merely one more of the named “diets” I phrase as a “4-letter word,” another form of self-medication. From one perspective (science) one has nothing to do with the other (gluten intolerance/Celiac vs. GMO).

From my research findings, however, they are related (indirectly related to GMO, pertaining to the regulatory agencies which govern such things).

However again, the toxicity of glyphosate formulations are slowly being realized to compromise the gut...a precursor for complications which include gluten-intolerance and Celiac.

This is a complicated mess worsened by propaganda & hyperbole. The net result is that they tell us that they cannot grow crops w/o spraying toxic chemicals on our food and if it weren’t glyphosate, it’s going to be something worse. And no matter what it is, they ALWAYS tell us that it is safe until it’s proven otherwise.

There’s a word for that...