[Mb-civic] Radioactive Potatoes

[richard haase]

YEAH BUT CHEESEBURGER
IF YOU FED SOME OF THOSE RADIOACTIVE
POTATOS TO YOUR SPARROW
IT WOULD SING FOR DAYS

JUST A THOUGHT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian" <ialterman at nyc.rr.com>
To: <mb-civic at islandlists.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Mb-civic] Radioactive Potatoes


> Cheeseburger (and radioactive fries?):
>
> Radioactive potatoes?  Maybe.  But we don't really need them to be
> radioactive in order to find ourselves mutating at some future point due
to
> the food we eat.  Consider.
>
> First, Monsanto created rBGH (recombinany bovine growth hormone), which is
> given to cows to produce more milk.  Yet rBGH failed numerous studies for
> safety: in some studies (way too many, in fact), the cows developed
> infections from the rBGH - which, of course, get transferred to the milk
> they produce.  And who drinks milk?  Yeah, we may drinks a glass or two,
and
> put it in our coffee, but it is CHILDREN who drink the most milk.  And
since
> well over half (by some estimates over 75%) of the cows in the U.S. are
fed
> rBGH, I think it is safe to say (sadly) that we may be on the road to
> causing genetic defects in our children, and our children's children etc.
>
> Then Monsanto created genetically modified corn, which now makes up (by
some
> estimates) 80%-90% of the corn market.  Yet even if you don't eat a lot of
> corn (either fresh (an ironic word now...), canned, etc.), 50% of corn is
> turned into high fructose corn syrup, which is in every single flavored
> and/or sugared drink on the market, from Coca-Cola and Snapple to
> you-name-it.  In fact, according to one statistic, each of consumes about
22
> POUNDS of high frustoce corn syrup each year.  Neat, huh?
>
> Finally, Monsanto then created the bT potato, a hybrid which actually
> creates its own pesticide.  In other word, the pesticide is actually part
of
> the potatoes DNA, which means when we eat bT potatoes, we are consuming
the
> pesticide within.  It is estimated that 75% of all french fries -
including
> McDonalds, the single largest purchaser of bT potatoes - and 75% of all
> potato chips are made with bT potatoes.  So here again, we are consuming
> something that may very well be causing slow and gradual, but nevertheless
> definite, mutations.
>
> Given all this, I suppose I'd opt for radioactive potatoes: at least I'll
be
> able to get around better, since I'll glow in the dark!
>
> Peace.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cheeseburger" <maxfury at granderiver.net>
> To: <mb-civic at islandlists.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 4:37 AM
> Subject: [Mb-civic] Radioactive Potatoes
>
>
> > Radioactive Potatoes
> >
> > You remember the scene in "Close Encounters Of The 3rd Kind" where the
man
> > and his wife are sitting at the dinner table with their 3 kids, and they
> > pass the mashed potatoes to him and he just slowly keeps spooning them
> onto
> > his plate artistically until he has a mountain of them, and all his
family
> > has just been staring at him all this time, and he looks up and sees
them
> > staring and says something like "I guess you noticed there's something
> > strange with dad lately..."  then he pauses and adds "But don't worry,
I'm
> > still dad..."  And then the guy just starts to cry because as he put
what
> > he couldn't figure out "This means something...  This is important..."
> > ..?   Well, this isn't about that.
> >
> >
> > Radioactive Potatoes in America:
> >
> > http://www.606mag.com/main.php?id=38
> >
> > It's in the name. Microwaves use micro-waves of radiation to cook food.
> > Maybe the Soviet Union was on to something when they banned microwaves
in
> > 1976. But we were too preoccupied with the nuclear arms race to notice
> that
> > we were eating radioactive potatoes and electrically charged Lean
Cuisine.
> > Ninety percent of American homes have a microwave as a part of its
nuclear
> > unit.
> >
> >
> > Chernobyl Potatoes After The "Accident":
> >
> >
>
http://www.chernobyl.info/en/Projects/Igovka/Chernobyl/IgovkaafterChernobyl
> >
> > To our surprise we understood that there were no other places, I mean
> > uncontaminated places, and we must live here in Belarus and undertake
some
> > measures to clean it up, to grow vegetables and fruit, we had to learn
how
> > to live in an area contaminated wish radiation. In Kaluga region we were
> > told that in spring, potatoes from Belarus were bought for sowing and
they
> > were worried about how they would dig up the radioactive potatoes in the
> > autumn.
> >
> >
> > Which brings us to the story of sitting talking to a retired bigrig
> trucker
> > I know a while back and him telling me how he used to pull right up to
> > fields somewhere in Nevada or somewhere, where they did all those
nuclear
> > etc tests, and they would just fill his truck up with potatoes grown
> there,
> > and he'd drive off somewhere down the long roads of North America and
> > deliver them and then someone would cook them and eat them, and then
> > another truck would pull up and they would fill that one.
> >
> > Oh well, I just always wondered if people ate "Radioactive Potatoes"
after
> > talking to that trucker, and put that in my search engine.
> >
> > I guess they still do.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheeseburger
> >
> > - Where has the sparrow gone now that I need its song.
> >
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