RE: chips

["Paddy Apling" <e.c.apling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote 13 August 2003 21:14:
> .... When Joe Hansen wrote "Too Many
> Babies", a 1950s attack on Malthusianism, he claimed that the Green
> Revolution had made the problem of satisfying hunger obsolete. It may
> have done so but only at the expense of introducing cancer epidemics as
> Sandra Steingraber's "Living Downstream" so eloquently points out. This
> woman, who survived breast cancer, points out how all the chemical
> additives (pesticides, especially) that keep the grocery shelves so
> well-stocked are the very things that are killing us.

The "cancer epidemic" is a myth.
Cancer is a result of DNA-replication errors - which multiply with ageing.
More people now die of cancer, merely because fewer die of infectious
diseases, and because of advances in scientific agriculture and medicine the
average age of death is so much higher than in past ages.  Now, apart from
accidental deaths, almost the only causes of death are heart failure and
cancer.....

Sandra Steinberger is also completely wrong - in fact pesticides are of
extreemly little danger to anyone except the operatives applying them -
there are far more dangerous "natural" chemicals in food sources than
anything due to pesticide residue or any of the additives used in food
"manufacture".  If food manufactureres had to list all the "harmful
chemicals", including those "natural" to the food source the lists would be
yards long.

It was Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541) who
reminded us that "the poison is in the dose" (I can't remember the Latin tag
at the moment) - i.e. ALL things are poisonous at some level - even those
NECESSARY at some lower level.

Paddy
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Gretings,
Paddy
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