On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:47:19 -0500, Robert Kesterson <[log in to unmask]>  
wrote:


>
>> Postulate: yams were a weapon; get your neighbours to eat them, when  
>> they get fat and slow kill them and take over their territory.
>
> It's a good thing that attitude isn't practiced as much today.  (Or  
> maybe it's a bad thing.  Depends on which side of the sugar fence your  
> camp is on.  ;-) )
>

It is practised today. Fluorides to make people passive, and so, easy to  
control; wheat to keep people busy with the resultant troubles and shorten  
their lives, prevents wisdom. Chemicals in the food and vaccines to cull  
the population of the ruled tribe.

It's more profitable to rule them than to kill them.

William