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In reply to the discussion: Researchers may have found key to peanut allergy cure [View all]appalachiablue
(43,960 posts)have been altered over centuries- grains, corn, others for growing, shipping and various purposes. I first saw purple potatoes in S.A., and blood orange juice in Florence when young. Different strokes. A Turkish friend remarked years back that corn on the cob was for animals? I thought that was hilarious!
So many dangerous practices in our modern industrial food system, mostly for higher profits, cows fed GMO corn instead of grass; the growth hormones, antibiotics, diseases and awful conditions animals are grown in. People need to become more aware and it's difficult to find the info., but once you do it's amazing. Diseases of affluence in the west, our modern public heath practices and use of harmful chemicals connects to natural gut microbes disruption and the likely related immune system illnesses, clearly.
I've read that 85% of antibiotic use in the US is for animals not humans. Even hand soap, bandaides, clothing, bedding, sneakers, toothpaste, mouthwash and J & J Baby shampoo (until it was pulled) can include the chemical Triclosan which is a pesticide, and antiseptics and antibiotics to kill 'germs'. No surprise we have resistant super bugs now.
All this gets into the water too, like the lawn and agricultural pesticides and fertilizers. Same with plastics from containers, BPA, PBCs, Phalates, probable endocrine disruptors, cancer causers and more. Then there's the GMOS, carbon, air pollution, etc.!! Growing up I knew one autistic boy, no kids with allergies, UC , obesity, rarely a food allergy. I didn't see an an inhaler for asthma until I was 20. No wonder we're the Home of the Sick and Land of the Diseased!
Not funny- the time, worry, cost, self research, medical care and suffering people endure is staggering. We could rebuild our economy by undoing all this for safer options and stronger, healthier people. One day...