My rant for today...Im reading this incredible paper on the NIH site that is scaring me to death- nanotechnology may make GMOs look tame in our near future: Anti-microbial properties could contribute to food safety through âself-cleaning packaging, that foods can be milled down to or self-assembled up to an optimum size for absorption in the gut (a kind of high-tech predigestion), that different tastes for the same food might arise from delivering its molecules at different sizes, and that nanostructures could be used to create the controlled release of nutrients in the body. How could that go wrong? đ But this is a quote from it I love : The physical act of eating becomes an incorporation point of bioactive molecules that are simultaneously material and social. We cannot help but ingest and in the act of ingestion and digestion are drawn into the social, technical and political networks of food production, regulation and consumption. We are what we eat â but also what our parents and grandparents ate, and what we eat ate, and other expansions of networks of significant ingestions. Wow, yes, so why are we fed toxic, processed, modified synthetic food-like products when we have known for years that it modifies the way our genes express themselves and not for the better. Another great quote from this paper: As discussed above, epigenetic work throws previous modes of targeting individual nutrient consumption into doubt, increasing wariness about substitutability of synthetic or purified substances for whole foods, attention to potentially damaging effects of prior technical improvements to food, and worry about the balance between nutrients in a complex metabolic environment. All of these factors act as additional brakes on any easy leap to translating the experimental and epidemiological work described above into particular changes to eating practices prescribed to individuals. Hmmm, yep, technological improvements to food havent worked out so well so I say lets stick with the real thing, it seems to work just fine and wont require our bodies to genetically alter to use it :)
Posted on: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 00:34:28 +0000
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