Do you think our food is programmed? If you agree that food has chemical elements that “program” mood, which affects thoughts, would you also wonder if our food can be manipulated and programmed. Meaning, if it’s able to program our mind/mood/emotion, is it also able to be programmed (that’s the logic here).
Besides the chemical aspect of it all, it’s a wonder what we were taught when we were younger. In church, what did they ask us to do before we ate? Pray over our food. Why? To program it, it’s called blessings. So, can food be programmed in various ways?
Think about this. Three focus questions:
1. What kind of program is involved in our foods?
My answer: Easy one, chemicals. Endorphins (what our body creates) & Aphrodisiacs (foods that cause a particular emotion)
a). Foods can affect moods/emotions. Think about chocolate, which releases endorphins. Endorphins have the feel well, pick me up effect, so, it alters mood, in an innocent way, it effects our mind.
b). There are aphrodisiac foods, used to motivate sexual play, again, this sexual play is also related to the chemicals in the brain which signals “sex”.
My answer:
Yes. Besides the extreme leap of logic of programming food by praying a blessing over it, to the more basic example of using foods to create a mood (sexual or feel good).
Here’s a more palatable leap: Food can act as a drug and drugs are literally programmed, if you think of illegal/legal drugs as chemical programs, it’s easier to see the cause/effect logic when wondering about the outcome of certain drugs, and it’s also easier to see the cause/effects of eating certain foods.)
Focus on food vs. mind, not just the overall health of the body.
Food means anything that's editable or digestible (but not poisons).
3. Do you think that genetically programmed/engineered foods are healthy/unhealthy alternatives to non-engineered foods?
Don’t know any foods that are genetically programmed? Think soy or corn (and both are in most of our processed foods, inw, non-whole food=God’s bacteria doesn’t even want it).
no the food supply is not "programmed"...the genetic modification of food sources in order to increase levels of certain nutritional neccessities was touted years ago as a way to increase the health of the global population...but due to the fact that this would effectively eliminate a multi billion grossing food supplements industry...it was lobbied against by big business and the idea was dropped
not to mention the fact that due to huge misunderstanding of genetic engineering by the general population...and due to high profile anti-genetic modification groups such as greenpeace etc....as soon as any whiff of genetic engineering food crops comes out there is media talk of it "contaminating" the non genetically modified crops
i personally think that modifying foods in order to help prevent malnutrition in famine ravaged countries would not be a bad thing
as for the manilpulation of food sources to include chemicals for altering moods etc...this would end up being lobbied against no doubt by the even bigger and more powerful pharmaceuticals industry and would also end up scrapped...cause why have people pay just for the food....when you can have them shelling out small fortunes for drugs which they are told they need because of some non existant mental disorder
of course...from an entirely different viewpoint...i do think that some food additives have side effects which cause mood changes but i dont believe these are desired by anyone...unless you are suggesting that the food manufacturers are deliberately making foods which have been linked to things such as hyperactivity in children...and thus colluding with the pharmaceuticals industry so that they can sell the drugs to "cure" these disorders....ritalin for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder for example....well thats a whole other conspiracy route to go down....
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There was a recent article in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry that looked at organic vs inorganic tomatoes for their flavanoid (apparently the healthy part of the tomato) content. It found that organic tomatoes were much higher in them than the conventionally grown tomatoes.
The funny part is, the tomato produces flavanoids when it is stressed, meaning that because organic crops are grown in worse conditions than conventional crops (re: without the benefit of modern technology) the tomato produces a defense mechanism that creates the chemical compound that just happens to be what is the nutritious part of the fruit to us.
lol, I am totally with your implied sentiment, but I got a kick out of that study. Genetic modification is clearly the way to go, but we should be very conservative in our implementation. As per the study, there is no guarantee that advances in technology will cause advances in nutrition.
I don't think our food supply is programed, but it's certainly poisoned.
You know, a lot more goes into creating microwaveable foods than just flash freezing it. Something has to be done to a plate of maccaroni and cheese to make it microwavable; to make it last for a year in teh freezer, before you nuke it.
It's a crisis. The bleeding hearts and the do-gooders on both sides of the aisle babble about the starving African children. Well, it's the opposite here in America. We're stuffing ourselves at all you can eat buffets, with food that's jacked up on chemicals and preservatives. Then we go home and chew on a handful of antacids and heartburn medications and burp and fart our way off to sleep.
And what happens if you want to eat a piece of chicken that isn't pumped full of antibiotics and preservatives? You have to go to a speacialty store like Whole Foods, 20 blocks out of the way, and pay 3 extra bucks for a piece of meat that isn't geeked out on chemicals. End result? The company makes even more money selling you a healtier alternative to the product that they poisoned in the first place!
It's another example of how this country, thanks to both democrat and republican politicians, has been sold to big buisness that's exploited this country.
I keep hearing FOX news talk about the Chinese trying to kill our children with poisionous toys. Well, fu*k all that. The Chinese have a billion people to worry about. Republicans talk about "personal responsability and making the effort to succeed"! Well, doesn't that mean it's the big buisnesses like Wal-Mart and Enron, who should be responsible American companies, and monitor the products they put on their shelves? No, China is the boogie man! Our toys have joined the terrorists! Any number of bullshit scare tactics being employed by the politics of America that are used to divert our attention while the government is sold to "Big Buisness".
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the Japanese have a really well done farming system. I think the farmers in North America are more interested in international trade than the Japanese are, thus creating less of the integration the Japanese have, but there doesn't really seem to be that much interest in local and fresh from the regular consumer here.
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