Evolution of food

Before there were civilizations, we were tribes of nomadic hunter gatherers. Life was good. We, as a race, had spent the last 14 million years learning to live on land and evolving into creative, sentient little bipeds. Back then a man could go on a hunt and take a shot at being the tribe hero for a week, month, day, whatever the prey would allow. If he got hungry he could just reach down, reach up, reach and grab some foliage to chew on to hold him over. Aside from a few poisonous plants, the risk was minimal. The ground rule if it wasn't a poisonous species, it was all good.

A few years back I went to the grocery store looking for mung bean sprouts. The produce guy there told me they didn't carry them because they had a breakout of e coli virus. How does a plant get e coli? Flash back to early days of gene splicing and college biology 101. Here's how you hybridize a plant. E coli has a very basic genetic structure. It has a big welcome mat for genetic code. So you take a grapefruit plant, strip in some e coli, add some watermelon DNA and bam! You can feed the whole weight watchers meeting. The only problem is, It also welcomes nefarious DNA. Like viruses.

Earlier this year, some people got sick from an e coli virus in romaine lettuce. If there's any vegetable in the world that should be eaten raw, straight off the ground, it's lettuce. Seriously, how can you fuck that up?

Now let's talk about Monsonto. How does a company who has a history of inventing and producing chemicals, just to sell of those divisions a couple years before those chemicals were banned, get carte blanche over the worlds food? Typically money. Monsonto, before genetic modifications, produced bovine growth homone (banned) DDT (banned) Agent Orange (banned) PCBs (banned). Now they're allowed to fuck with our vegetation. It didn't need fucking with! Not only that, If you're not a part of Monsonto's farmer's guild, and, through the natural process of cross pollination, your crop produces strains of Monsonto's GMOs, the courts will order a cease and desist, put the farmer out of business and quite possibly fine them as well. Americans, contributing to what's wrong with America.

This! Is why you buy locally, support locally.

Earlier this year Monsonto chemicals was bought out by Bayer. While Bayer required their Frankenveggie division was sold to other company(s) it will be interesting to watch how big ag will shape the health of millions of people.