ElementalMom

Really.

A fellow Foodlabber thought that I tirade I’d had a few years back was worthy of reposting, so I thought I’d let you know it was there.

http://ecowahm.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/finding-the-time-for-a-nutmilk-revolution/

That’s it. The world has gone totally, totally mad.

http://www.physorg.com/news160327633.html

Pigs, people may soon eat their way to flu resistance, say researchers

April 30th, 2009

(PhysOrg.com) — A team of researchers from Iowa State University is
putting flu vaccines into the genetic makeup of corn, which may someday
allow pigs and humans to get a flu vaccination simply by eating corn or
corn products.

“We’re trying to figure out which genes from the swine influenza
<http://www.physorg.com/tags/swine+influenza/>  virus to incorporate
into corn <http://www.physorg.com/tags/corn/>  so those genes, when
expressed, would produce protein. When the pig consumes that corn, it
would serve as a vaccine,” said Hank Harris, professor in animal science
and one of the researchers on the project.

The project is a collaborative effort with Harris and Brad Bosworth, an
affiliate associate professor of animal science working with pigs, and
Kan Wang, a professor in agronomy, who is developing the vaccine traits
in the corn.

The corn vaccine would also work in humans when they eat corn or even
corn flakes, corn chips, tortillas or anything that contains corn, said
Harris.The research is funded by a grant from Iowa State University’s
Plant Sciences Institute, and is their Biopharmaceuticals and
Bioindustrials Research Initiative.The corn vaccine may be possible in 5
to 7 years if research goes well. Meanwhile, the team is trying to speed
up the process……

My longtime readers know that we’re corn free as a family, because Rowan reacts really badly to it. Well… his reactions had been diminishing, so we’d been allowing corn to come back in… when you’re gluten-free as well, it’s nice to sometimes have a tortilla option. But as we all know, the corn gene is almost impossible to keep corralled, so if this version of frankencorn is grown, it’ll be ubiquitous in no time.

Frankly, I am terrified. As if vaccines weren’t bad enough, as if Pharma wasn’t meddling in our lives enough already, now we have to go conflating them with our food supply. Paleo diet, here I come.