Our food is being poisoned

[TheBlade]

This is why we should pray over our food. Nothing shall by any means hurt you. Pray every time you eat..

[Unit 11]

My first thought upon seeing this was, "I'm 58 years old and have never worried about what I eat or drink. And I'm still alive & well, within my weight range and am in good shape. Thus I refute it."

My second thought was, there are so many things we can get preoccupied with, worried and psyched out about if we're not careful. I know that well from experience. 

 

[BeauJangles]

2 hours ago, TheBlade said:

This is why we should pray over our food. Nothing shall by any means hurt you. Pray every time you eat..

That's right, brother. We should pray and be thankful for our daily bread. The Lord's Prayer was stated accordingly that we need to be grateful and recognize His glory, mercy, and loving kindness towards us as His children. You know what? It's truly a wondrous and beautiful thing when you dwell on the splendor of our God, the Almighty One. Amen!

[David1701]

On 8/2/2020 at 10:49 PM, LonerAndy said:

I guess I am not nearly as concerned.

People are better off today, than at any time in human history.  Around the world today, and in the US, we now have a higher standard of living, and supply of safe stable food, than at any time in the last 6,000 years.

High Froctose Corn Syrup is perfectly fine.  There is nothing more unhealthy about HFCS, than any other sweetener.   It is similar to sugar beats and cane sugar.   In short, it is very similar to other types of processed sugars.

Which also is the only unhealthy aspect of HFCS, is that it is a sugar, and will cause diabetes and obesity, like any other sugar.

https://youtu.be/6-uL2oW4dcY

This is a simple 1.5 minute video that explains how HFCS is made.   It's not all that complicated really, and nor is there anything involving toxic chemicals.

I realize there is a ton of goofy stuff on the internet, and even on college campuses about how horrible HFCS is.  However, the medical industry has found nothing to support such claims.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/high-fructose-corn-syrup/faq-20058201
 

There is no evidence at all, thus far, that HFCS is any less healthy than any other sweetener.   That doesn't mean you should use it all the time.  It is still a sugar, and still causes obesity and diabetes like any other sugar.

As with all things, moderation.

Pesticides are an unavoidable aspect of farming.   Without pesticides, the entire world would be starving to death.   No pesticides, means no food.   It really is that simple.

Imagine if you will, being a chicken farmer, with outdoor coops.  You are in Wyoming or Idaho.  Wolves or foxes are there.  You decide to put no protection around your dozen chicken coops with a hundred chickens..   In a matter of days, you will barely have 5 chickens left.  The rest will all be eaten by predators.

The same is true of farming.   Instead of chickens, you have crops.  Instead of foxes and wolves, you have bugs and fungus.

If you do not use pesticides, you won't have any food.  No food for you the farmer, means no food for us in the cities, and the result will be mass starvation.

Even so-called organic farms, use pesticides.   Everyone uses pesticides.  You can't have farms without pesticides.  Even Amish farmers use pesticides.  It simply isn't possible to have a farm, and not use a pesticide.

So how do so-called organic farmers charge higher prices, while not using chemicals?  Well they do use chemicals.  They use "organic" chemicals.  That's how they claim to be organic farms, while using chemicals, is they use chemicals produced by nature.   Nature has some wickedly toxic chemicals if you don't know.

One "organic" farm I read about, was hosing down their vegetable, with an extremely toxic tree sap.  Tree sap that lasts for decades, and kills everything.   Bugs or animals that eat the tree sap, die.

Meanwhile the inorganic farms... were using a chemical humans created, that naturally degrades over time.   So they spray this pesticide on the crops, and by the time of the harvest, the chemical has decomposed and is gone.   It specifically designed to last just long enough to protect the crops, and then vanishes.

Which do you want on your food?  The chemical pesticide that naturally degrades in harmless dust, or the toxic tree sap that lasts decades?  Or do you simply not want to have food?

I'm more worried about people using government to mandate toxic tree sap on my food, than the chemical pesticides.  That's me.

Genetically modified organism (GMO).  This is one of the most abused topics in our society today, which is why I saved it for last.

Nearly everything that we have today, is GMO.   Everything.  Literally everything.  When you see a pure bred dog, or horse, or cow, or anything.... you are looking at a GMO.

When you breed for a specific trait you want, such as different types of dog traits, that is GMO.   You are genetically engineering a dog with the traits you want, by selective breeding.

The same is true of all other GMOs. 

The corn you see labeled "A"... is how corn really is in nature.  "D" is modern sweet corn.  Sweet Corn has been genetically modified to be nothing like what it was over thousands of years ago.

Same is true of bananas.

Those are non-GMO bananas.

So we need to first understand that everything around us is GMO.   The media has really messed with people, by making up all these goofy spook stories about syringes with purple colored water, being injected into a tomato.   Not true. Not how it works.

I can talk some more about GMOs if you like.

If you have any questions, just ask.

You make several good points; but, GMO is not about selective breeding, to produce particular characteristics that are within the existing gene pool of that organism (there is nothing wrong with this and it happens all the time). 

GMO is about splicing genetic material from one organism into another one.  It changes the genetic makeup of that organism, into something that has never existed before, cannot be produced by selective breeding, could contaminate non-GMO organisms and cannot be reversed, with our present technology.

[DeafMouse]

Hate to be the one to break the news to you all.....

We are all.......gonna die.

If we eat processed food, if we eat organic food, if we eat only plants and veggies, if we eat meat, if we eat bread, if we don't eat bread, if we eat seeds, if we eat sugar, if we eat carbs, if we eat chocolate, if we drink coffee, if we drink alcohol, if we drink water, if we eat raw foods, if we eat cooked foods, etc etc etc.....

We are still....all....gonna die one day.

The thing we should be more concerned about than what we eat is where are we going to go when we die?  That's whats really important.

 

 

(BTW TY to lonerandy for your explanation in the beginning, it was spot on!)

Edited August 4, 2020 by DeafMouse

[Guest]

1 hour ago, DeafMouse said:

Hate to be the one to break the news to you all.....

We are all.......gonna die.

If we eat processed food, if we eat organic food, if we eat only plants and veggies, if we eat meat, if we eat bread, if we don't eat bread, if we eat seeds, if we eat sugar, if we eat carbs, if we eat chocolate, if we drink coffee, if we drink alcohol, if we drink water, if we eat raw foods, if we eat cooked foods, etc etc etc.....

We are still....all....gonna die one day.

The thing we should be more concerned about than what we eat is where are we going to go when we die?  That's whats really important.

 

 

(BTW TY to chickencoop for your explanation in the beginning, it was spot on!)

Nice post.  I, however, am confused about what you said about me.  This now is my first post in this thread. 

[DeafMouse]

Sorry Chickencoop, I just saw the red on the pic and was thinking it was you lol.  I have corrected the post  I should have looked at the name not just glanced at the pic beside the post.  Apologies.

[missmuffet]

On 8/2/2020 at 9:05 PM, Sower said:

"America’s Deadly Sugar Addiction Has Reached Epidemic Levels"
headline from Healthline resources.
 

Type in sugar addiction on google.
Type it in on You-tube. I had no idea.

Sugar addiction is very real. My son convinced me just how addictive and bad sugar is,
and how it is added into almost everything we consume. I'm not fat, but wanted to loose a few lbs.
I decided to quit sugar, anything sweet including fruit juice and fresh fruit.
I was detoxing. And I went through the detoxification process.
It only took two days before I became sick.
It was miserable, and debilitated. Lost almost ten lbs in just a few days.
I realized how hooked I was, and how far down I fell in my stewardship of my body.
I now allow myself limited fruit and juices, and an occasional sweet.
Sugar added food creates profit to the producers. Our health suffers.
Read/watch the videos. It will/should change your eating habits.
 
 

 

 

Yes, sugar is addictive.

[missmuffet]

On 8/2/2020 at 9:47 PM, Willa said:

High fructose corn syrup is one of the worst things a diabetic can consume.  Fructose is a simpler sugar than sucrose even, and the simpler it is the faster it enters our blood stream, which is what diabetics do NOT want.  The more complicated the carb. the better it is for us because it  breaks down and enters our systems more slowly.  So high fiber carbs are better for us. We should be given pop instead of candy should we be hypoglycemic. Again, it enters our systems faster to counteract going into shock.  So we must keep our blood sugar levels in the middle and fairly steady.  Either extreme can be deadly for us.  Both hyperglycemic and hypoglycemic is bad.

Yes, and it can also promote cancer. It is in everything. I try to buy foods without high fructose corn syrup but that is difficult. Food is more expensive without high fructose corn syrup. 

[DeafMouse]

Everything causes cancer these days....