From: S.B. Feldman, MD <
> http://www.intelihealth.com/enews?307601


I prefer the views of Prof. William H. McNeil.  In his book "Plagues and
People" he states:

" One can properly think of most human lives as caught in a precarious
equilibrium between the microparasitism of disease organisms and the
macroparasitism of large body parasites"

Chief among these macroparasites he lists other humans but the human
activities he lists as predatory ( war, slavery, famine,poverty, etc.) are
primarily products of the Neolithic Revolution.  I would say that the real
parasites are the crops.  The effects of these crops on human health and the
world's environment only add to the inhumanities perpetrated by man himself
as he seeks to expand the crops' range by cultural, agricultural and
military means.

In many ways civilization benefits the crops far more than the individual
human.  To an uninvolved observer ( from perhaps another world ) it might be
difficult to determine which species is the dominant one on this planet.
The crops have far bigger populations than we do and have most of the best
real estate.  They have affected our environment far more than all the
industrial activity and warfare ever will.

And what would they make of my dog Sheika ( "Princess" in Arabic ) who is
beautiful, immaculately groomed, eats better than most humans on earth and
has never worked a day in her life.  Would they assume that the scruffy guy
following her around with a pooper scooper was her master or her slave.

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin"
http://www.neanderthin.com