[quote]When we look back at that first Thanksgiving, so many years ago, it’s tempting to feel bad for the Native Americans, who foolishly welcomed the Pilgrims and were subsequently violently massacred and given smallpox by the White Invaders from Europe.
There’s some merit to this point of view, but there is at least some small ironic satisfaction in knowing that the natives introduced the Europeans to the substance which may yet be their downfall – corn.
Corn is not inherently bad. There’s a lot to be said for it. It’s a hardy plant that grows with relative ease in a wide variety of climates. It can be served in a wide variety of ways. It can be mass produced affordably and it can be used to make a number of useful derivative products. [/quote]
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I was in Costco today and almost picked up a 12 pack of corn, and stopped and thought, “Does this stuff do ANYTHING for the body or just fill the stomach?”
I am not happy with what I found out.[quote]
But, amazingly enough, it gets worse. Not satisfied with being the largest single component of the average American’s diet, the corn industry genetically modifies its product, sometimes without government supervision, and then distributes the end results to consumers without labeling it.
And genetically modified “supercorn” is now sweeping through North America much like Hitler wanted the Aryan strain to sweep over Europe. GM corn has already profoundly damaged Mexico’s native “wild” strains of corn. Pretty soon, there won’t be any unaltered corn left, even for comparison purposes.
All this would be bad enough on the face of it. The human metabolism and digestive system craves variety. Too much of the same thing is bad, especially when that thing � corn � is so undigestible that the unprocessed kernels will pass untouched through your entire digestive system to emerge whole and unscathed in your feces.
In this paradigm, people are only a little better off than cattle. Almost every chicken, pig and cow in the United States is force-fed corn. Even salmon! Alas, these animals can’t properly digest a diet of all corn (not to mention the massive amounts of pesticides used to keep the corn bug free).
So the livestock gets sick. That sickness is treated by antibiotics and hormones which then bleed into virtually every piece of meat or cup of milk served in America, making the people who consume them sick.
Now, if it’s really bad for cows – who have THREE stomachs – to eat nothing but corn, what is it doing to those of us with only ONE stomach? [/quote]
Holy Shucking Fit!!!
I hope there’s no corn in brocoli. 
