I work hard to provide my readers salient information about topics that mean a lot to me...That makes it even more tragic when someone hijacks my content or spirals my reader's attention out of control, absorbs it into an advertizing loop, or undermining my ability to communicate. This post was about the indigestability of "modern" wheat that has resulted from rapid hybridization and selection for traits that, in turn have led to perverse mimics of the staff of life as well as other grains.
I included a link to a much better researched paper that helped me to understand more clearly, pitfalls of modern "agriculture".
Somehow, my link was overwritten by a gluten-free bake shop, which I do not endorse. Having never heard of this company before, I regret that any one would have been transferred to a bake shop from my blog. The best baker I know, who specializes in gluten free baking is my wife. She is currently not a purveyor of baked goods or baking mixes. If she were, I might consider talking her up a bit. Research on the topic of the changing "face" of grain over the centuries has led to the annihilation of genetic traits that required grain to develop terroir. The whole point of my post, before it was hijacked was to point out the curious possibility that humans have been adapted for centuries to eat local grains and the very diversity of genetic components in our food may also allow our adaptability to stay vital. The somewhat unscientific assumption behind this idea comes from thinking magically, perhaps, but isn't each thing we discover first perceived as novelty? I was talking more about how commercial interests were responsible for reducing biodiversity. On the other hand, they also remove the germ and all parts of the grain that would either attract vermin (by smell) or do anything that could potentially make life possible for the cultures of yeasts that they might introduce. What has become known as "sponge" to bakers today, resembles nothing that would have even been imagined even one hundred years ago.
The true fact that I wished to reveal was that modern loaves, even most that label themselves as whole wheat are more the result of a process that more resembles a chemistry experiment, duplicating endlessly the same exact experiment than eve two loaves baked the same day would have had just a few generations back. There is such a huge reliance on emulsifiers, yeast nutrient, adulterants and preservatives that most bread labels are nearly incomprehensible to anyone outside the corporate food pyramid. In the end, my point was that the corporados in charge of world food supplies are despotic and demonic, sacrificing human health and environmental integrity, once again, for profit.
I wrote much more detail and with much more elegance in my original post. I regret the loss of such a great story. The annotated version is: When I was a child, my grandfather worked at Holsum Bread. He was a union baker. At about age seven, I asked him how they could use the word Holsum and outright imply that the bread was good for you. He tried to change the subject by saying something prophetic like, "You are gonna be trouble someday." Pasty fluff is not what humans evolved to utilize as a food source. I firmly believe that a huge part of our health crisis is caused by inadequate food, most especially our "grains". What passes for food in that category is corporate treason, terrorism of the worst kind. We get sick from this fake, and genetically very new, component in our food supply, we see allergy increases, ADHD, autism/Asbergers, auto immune diseases and digestive collapse, all increasing at alarming rates. Those who learn about food realize the difference between food and non-food. Twinkies, Wonder Bread, macaroni and sweet rolls are not food in the true sense. The damage and havoc that they create in our bodies are not worth the concentrated calories. Like an adrenaline rush, it may feel great in the short run, but in time has a detrimental impact. Unlike a terrorist, the food industry will never tell us that they are at fault for the attacks.
Talk to anyone you know who has discovered that they are gluten intolerant, it is as if you are held hostage by the bakers who cater to their needs, prices are exorbitant. The type and kind of nutrients, as well as the percentage of them in old world grains has evaporated under the hand of corporate influence. The mute response of our government to this assault on the food supply is suspect only because of the vast amounts of money that we are talking about. If we would charge corporations
for the public health threat that they represent, we would have all farmlands across our nation transformed to small scale organic and bio-dynamic farms within a generation. Again, all that we need is the will and commit to take action against those who would put profit over people.
I included a link to a much better researched paper that helped me to understand more clearly, pitfalls of modern "agriculture".
Somehow, my link was overwritten by a gluten-free bake shop, which I do not endorse. Having never heard of this company before, I regret that any one would have been transferred to a bake shop from my blog. The best baker I know, who specializes in gluten free baking is my wife. She is currently not a purveyor of baked goods or baking mixes. If she were, I might consider talking her up a bit. Research on the topic of the changing "face" of grain over the centuries has led to the annihilation of genetic traits that required grain to develop terroir. The whole point of my post, before it was hijacked was to point out the curious possibility that humans have been adapted for centuries to eat local grains and the very diversity of genetic components in our food may also allow our adaptability to stay vital. The somewhat unscientific assumption behind this idea comes from thinking magically, perhaps, but isn't each thing we discover first perceived as novelty? I was talking more about how commercial interests were responsible for reducing biodiversity. On the other hand, they also remove the germ and all parts of the grain that would either attract vermin (by smell) or do anything that could potentially make life possible for the cultures of yeasts that they might introduce. What has become known as "sponge" to bakers today, resembles nothing that would have even been imagined even one hundred years ago.
The true fact that I wished to reveal was that modern loaves, even most that label themselves as whole wheat are more the result of a process that more resembles a chemistry experiment, duplicating endlessly the same exact experiment than eve two loaves baked the same day would have had just a few generations back. There is such a huge reliance on emulsifiers, yeast nutrient, adulterants and preservatives that most bread labels are nearly incomprehensible to anyone outside the corporate food pyramid. In the end, my point was that the corporados in charge of world food supplies are despotic and demonic, sacrificing human health and environmental integrity, once again, for profit.
I wrote much more detail and with much more elegance in my original post. I regret the loss of such a great story. The annotated version is: When I was a child, my grandfather worked at Holsum Bread. He was a union baker. At about age seven, I asked him how they could use the word Holsum and outright imply that the bread was good for you. He tried to change the subject by saying something prophetic like, "You are gonna be trouble someday." Pasty fluff is not what humans evolved to utilize as a food source. I firmly believe that a huge part of our health crisis is caused by inadequate food, most especially our "grains". What passes for food in that category is corporate treason, terrorism of the worst kind. We get sick from this fake, and genetically very new, component in our food supply, we see allergy increases, ADHD, autism/Asbergers, auto immune diseases and digestive collapse, all increasing at alarming rates. Those who learn about food realize the difference between food and non-food. Twinkies, Wonder Bread, macaroni and sweet rolls are not food in the true sense. The damage and havoc that they create in our bodies are not worth the concentrated calories. Like an adrenaline rush, it may feel great in the short run, but in time has a detrimental impact. Unlike a terrorist, the food industry will never tell us that they are at fault for the attacks.
Talk to anyone you know who has discovered that they are gluten intolerant, it is as if you are held hostage by the bakers who cater to their needs, prices are exorbitant. The type and kind of nutrients, as well as the percentage of them in old world grains has evaporated under the hand of corporate influence. The mute response of our government to this assault on the food supply is suspect only because of the vast amounts of money that we are talking about. If we would charge corporations
for the public health threat that they represent, we would have all farmlands across our nation transformed to small scale organic and bio-dynamic farms within a generation. Again, all that we need is the will and commit to take action against those who would put profit over people.
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