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food and potable water

Posted By: Caryl Stephanson
Date: Friday, 25 April 2008, at 4:17 p.m.

In Response To: Teach your children well... (OT) (Caryl Stephanson)

Without prejudice. Much of this is my opinion, backed up with what I have researched online and opinions of professors with whom I have conversed on the subjects. Please draw you own conclusions.

I think that the issues of food and potable water will be much more pressing than global warming very soon. I am not saying that global warming won't exacerbate things, just that it will fall on the list. Actually, melting polar icecaps may even help with the water issue and I predict desalination plants springing up rapidly in the nest 20 years. I will leave the water issue for now.

On world consumption sustainability and food patterns circa 2000: www.agrifood-forum.net/issues/consumption/doc/agri-consumption.pdf

We have the resources to supply food to the world and choose not to do so, or at least not at prices 3rd world countries can afford.

And of course, food has so much less the nutritive quality than it did 50 years ago, in large part because of chemical farming. It increases yields at the cost of nutrition. www.soils.wisc.edu/~barak/poster_gallery/minneapolis2000a/index.html www.jacn.org/cgi/content/full/23/6/669 www.cgca.net/serf-publishing/qualityandhealth.htm

Raw food diets have come to the fore of late as processed foods are stated as culprit for varied conditions such as cancer, arthritis and heart disease. www.living-foods.com/articles/rawfreshproduce.html www.rawfoodlife.com/Articles___Research/Science_of_Raw_v__Cooked/science_of_raw_v__cooked.htm

Then there is the issue of dairy products. Dairy is either not consumed at all (even in China whose residents are famous for eating almost anything) or very little (most of the rest of Asia) with the resultant drop there, in my opinion, in heart disease and cancer. The dairy industry has a vested interest in having us continue to consume their products. http://jds.fass.org/cgi/reprint/62/10/1665.pdf Two sides are presently battling it out as to whether dairy causes or prevents cancer: www.nationaldairycouncil.org/NationalDairyCouncil/Nutrition/Reducing/cancer.htm www.alkalizeforhealth.net/Lnotmilk6.htm

I know that in Canada when we import foods they are not allowed into the country without first being sprayed with pesticides and fungicides. The fruit and vegetables I don't peel I soak in vinegar for 20 minutes then rinse.

Then there is irradiation of our food. www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety/irradiation/index.cfm?parent=3 http://physics.isu.edu/radinf/food.htm#food1 Draw your own conclusions. See number 7 in the FAQs and whether you agree that it is completely safe.

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