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Date: | Thu, 4 Feb 1999 09:38:59 +0100 |
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Christopher:
> * Another "aha" perhaps many of you will be familiar with, was in
> relation to the Pottenger research. In Pottenger's experiments, the
> "nutritionally challenged" cats could not reproduce after 3 generations,
> (or infertility was the rule). Sally pointed out that modern folk have
> been on junk diets for often about 3 generations. And look at our rate
> of infertility (not to mention anti-social behavior). When she said
> this I got shivers from head to toe, and they lasted for about 10
> seconds. We are eating ourselves to extinction! & our best response is
> fertility drugs, (and then octuplets - wonder what that does to the
> mother and kids...).
It's true that our infertility rate is increasing, but remember that
the earth is populated (crowded) with 6 billion cooked food-eating
humans; that women in some African countries have 8 children or more,
despite a cooked and nutritionally deficient diet; that most humans
have been eating cooked for at least 1000 generations; abortion and
contraception are quite widespread.
In conclusion, I don't think we are eating ourselves to extinction,
but rather polluting, "nuking", etc. ourselves to extinction.
--Jean-Louis Tu <[log in to unmask]>
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