How to Know What You What You Don,t Know. Normand Desmarais
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“Now this is not bad enough when many become addicted to alcohol. The destruction of the individual person’s life as well as whole families is affected. Jobs are lost divorces follow. Income and one’s net worth goes literally down the drain. This is a terrible disease where the individual is caught in this destructive system. Adding another destructive weapon to a happy family unit, this ultimately, affects many others around that family unit, further increasing the destruction of moral values, happiness and prosperity to the rest of the population.
“Getting back to the food, it has been said that there is not enough for the whole population of the planet. This is hogwash you would not believe the amount of food that is wasted. Let’s start from the farm, we will pick a vegetable let us say a carrot for example. The farmer has a ten acre plot dedicated to growing carrots. Each acre produces one ton of carrots that is ten tons altogether.
“Now it is harvesting time, the farmer gets all of the carrots out of the ground and sells ten tons to the processing plant. The plant sorts out the perfect ones to sell at the supermarkets, maybe gets two tons there. That leaves eight tons of deformed carrots (Keep in mind these are still edible carrots). Now the producer is no fool he will turn these carrots in to canned, frozen, and diced then packaged. Now some have fallen off the conveyer belt, that’s garbage maybe two hundred pounds, the waste begins.
“The produce, is then shipped to the warehouse and during the handling some product is damaged, say another two hundred pounds. We are now at four hundred pounds of wasted carrots. You may at this point say well that cannot be helped, well mechanical devices do not care what they do; they just do what they do.
“Now it is time to ship the carrots to the stores, and restaurants where inevitably there will be more damage, let’s keep it at two hundred pounds, which now totals six hundred pounds of wasted carrots. Now here is where it gets in front of us yet many do not see. You would be shocked at the waste at the restaurant garbage bin, and if you were to take just the carrots wasted from restaurants from the original ten tons here you would probably see another four hundred pounds of uneaten carrots. Children will refuse to eat them along with many adults yet they were placed on the plate. Total so far, one ton of wasted carrots.
Now add this up with the homes, old age homes that have thrown cooked but uneaten carrots away not to mention product that has gone bad for not being used in time. Another two tons, now we have an estimated three tons of wasted carrots. Combine this with all the other vegetables, fruit, meats, and dairy products, which is one big pile of wasted food. A large majority of this food could have fed many others, rather than having them starve to death.
“In other words there is so much waste from the production line to the shipping and handling, the storage to the table and into the garbage.”
“How do you know about all this?” A young male from the group asked.
“At one time in my life I have been involved from the farming to the production and handling of food stuffs and have seen it with my own eyes. I worked in the warehousing of foods as well as working in restaurants. I have also seen good food products sent to the dumps by the truck load. Many companies would rather dump none saleable foods containing blemishes or deformities, even though it is still edible, rather than giving to the poor, Even then at such a young age I was appalled at the waste which I witnessed. From that time to now, there is no person on this planet that can tell me that there is not enough to go around.” Ronny replied and continued by saying.
One of the back yard neighbours raised his hand.
Ronny saw this and said. “Yes Bill, what’s your question?”
Bill stood up and spoke. “A couple of weekends ago I heard you talk about foods from the gardens. I did not hear all of what you were talking about so could you please explain what you meant by deficiencies and bio what, ever it was?”
“Sure Bill, well the little amount that is grown in some back yard gardens does not have the same nutrients as say fifty years ago, for two reasons. A) The soil is not the same because of so much pollution. B) The seeds we buy are not the original seeds of days gone by, they are genetically modified to grow faster and fend off bugs. Did you know that in some countries it is against the law to sell or grow over a certain amount of original seeds to another person?”
Another example is corn, most if not all the corn produced these days is genetically modified. In other words the corn today is not the natural corn of yesteryear it has been modified to grow stronger, faster, bug resistant so they say, but in reality some of the genetic modifications produce undesirable changes in the human DNA, one example is sterility. I myself am not happy about that. Therefore I do not consume any corn related product, this includes fresh corn on the cob, Corn syrup, corn chips, and or anything else that has a corn added to it, I read the labels and if in doubt I don’t buy the product.
“It makes me wonder why they keep pushing the genetically modified produce, is there an underlying plan to spread some other form of illness that might be harder to detect. Is there an attempt to try and change our own genetic structure? Do they know of an impending change for the good of humanity, that they do not want to have happen to us? Is this the only way that they believe that they can keep some sort of control over us?
We do not know what we do not know, and not knowing is dangerous, as some would agree. I will keep repeating that I am not trying to scare anyone; I am only trying to make people aware to cause them to think about why things are and how it should be, to imagine what it would be like in a perfect world. Most people do not believe it to be possible. A tipping point would prove me right in the long run.
I am off topic, let us continue, as it stands today the fruit and vegetables that we grow today do not have the same nutrients as say over fifty years ago. You have to eat at least forty or more apples today to get the same nourishment as one apple fifty years ago. Some people in the audience were very surprised to hear this.
“Yes it is true it is now against the law to grow over a certain amount of original produce in your own back yard because the authorities fear that you might sell or give away any over flow of produce. If you are caught producing and selling/giving away original seeds of any kind, you will face a very stiff penalty.
“Also did you realize, that we and most other life are, dependant on the Bee population? Bees go from flower to flower pollinating as they collect nectar. They go into the farm fields and in the forests, anywhere that a flower of some sort has attracted them. If the bee population was to drop drastically then we would be in very serious trouble to produce foods and the seeds for the next generation of plants.
“Now here is the scary part, there are some agencies telling the Bee Keepers to kill the queens every two or three years. Why is that? Well for one thing the genetic information is lost and the new queen has to start over lacking much information that would have been passed on. This inevitably causes much confusion in the Bee world, and then we are affected as well with less food production, heck even the wild life is affected as well with less diversity of plant life.”
“Let me continue on the original topic.”
“We have all been brought up in a wasteful society. We waste not only food but practically everything else around us. Plastics such as bags, bottles, cans, wrapping materials clothes, most of which is recyclable but much of it ends up in the dump. We use it once and discard it. We act like spoiled brats that do not know any better. We are being watched by the rest of the world, especially by those that have not.
“Many people don’t know when to stop eating they feel that they have to eat everything on the plate. Many eating establishments actually overfill the plates and bowls of greasy fat making foods, the results of all of this is not hard to notice, when you see the amount of needless obesity about. Don’t tell me that within the last fifty years or so that there has been an epidemic of people with bad genes that cause them to be obese.
“If one looks closely at the problem they would see that it is the food that is consumed being the root cause of obesity. One of the many hurtful foods to the human body is sugar. Especially white processed sugar and fructose glucose,