How Did I Not Realize This!!??

My wife sat me down to watch a YouTube video about Genetically Modified Foods that someone posted. Though reluctant at first, I sat and watched. I didn't even make it through the end. I was speechless. I was moved. So moved in fact that I'm blogging about my experience even though I haven't blogged anything for months.

Here's a link to the video... Future of Food There's some real touching footage. Aerial Bombs = Nitrate Fertilizer; Tractors = Tanks; Insecticides = Nerve Gas. I about cried when I saw the dying cockroach. Who'd have thought that "higher yields, increased food production, cheaper prices, and greater availability" of food could be such a bad thing. It threatens all we hold dear and sacred. I was shocked that farmers so willingly dowse their crops with costly chemicals. I thought that all farmers were like the hundred or so that I can name personally and could probably tell you who I am too. They are extremely cautious to use any chemicals unless they have to. (Keep in mind that it may cost you $20 to weed-and-feed your 1/4 acre lawn, but a farmer with 1000 acres would need $80,000 at the same per acre cost. Do you honestly think he's going to use any more chemical than he absolutely has to.)

I was so moved, in fact, that I started looking for what other gross malevolence lurks behind the auspices of good and wholesomeness.

I found this little video about bread: Dangers of Bread
(I'll warn you after about 1:40 it digresses from the original message.)

That bread video is even more credible and uses even more sound logic than the GMO video. Granted the bread video didn't have some guy with a beard and glasses looking very scientific like and very distinguished and credible nor did it have the touching film footage of starving Africans or dying cockroaches, but the trains of thought and use of obvious facts is just the same. There must be some link since a lot of wheat is genetically modified and bread is made out of wheat. I even have a niece that gets really sick if she eats anything that even has a small bit of wheat in it. THAT PROVES IT!!! Wheat bread will destroy the world long before Genetically Modified Foods will. I'm not even going to bother with putting anything away for retirement. We're all doomed!!

I got to looking around even further and found this little tidbit right from my hometown of Idaho Falls which is full of scientists. (We have the worlds premier nuclear research facility just 50 miles away and most of the employees live in or near Idaho Falls.) Apparently there is this chemical called Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) that's in all kind of pesticides and poisons, and it kills more people every year than all other hazardous chemicals combined, and Idaho Falls was the first city to attempt to ban it thanks to an ambitious student in a science fair back in 1997. No kidding!! It's all verifiable fact. Here's the Snopes link to prove it: Snopes: DHMO

They even have a website now dedicated to the whole movement to ban DHMO: www.dhmo.org Go there! I promise that you will learn something you didn't already know... Probably about yourself.

Penn and Teller even did a segment on it for their television show. Here's a snippet from YouTube: Penn and Teller: DHMO (Caution: Penn and Teller, though milder than usual, still use one bad word; and even though I agree with that one use of the word, it's still a bad word.) THIS IS SERIOUS STUFF!!! We have a world wide crisis on our hands!

How many people don't know about all of this?? What can we do??

The worldwide crisis, is not that we are surrounded by all of these terrible malicious things. The crisis, unfortunately, is that we are surrounded by all of these people who are too easily duped by pseudoscience, sensationalism, and hype.

Bring on the backlash...