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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Screwed Carrots


Remember how the ads pushed calcium for older women so that they would not suffer from osteoporosis. They emphasized how calcium could prevent the hunched over, bent over worn out old look.

Regard: Study suggests heart risk from calcium supplements
Older women who take calcium supplements to maintain bone strength may have an increased risk of heart attack, researchers in New Zealand said on Tuesday.
Call it the non-truth in advertising.

Along a related and similar line, does anyone besides me find this sort of scientific modification to be a little troubling - Scientists unveil 'supercarrot'
Scientists in the US say they have created a genetically-engineered carrot that provides extra calcium.

They hope that adding the vegetable to a normal diet could help ward off conditions such as brittle bone disease and osteoporosis.
Somebody better get their studies together. Talk about being twisted and tugged in two directions at once. Would you call these carrots, heart attack carrots?

How about this idea, don't screw around with the food, okay, just leave it alone. I don't want your genetically modified monster vegetables. Everything is fine just the way it is. Try eating normal food and leave it at that.

3 comments:

Glynn Kalara said...

Wasn't there a B- Sci fi movie back in the 60's where killer vegetables eat Toledo or some other mid-western city?

Jim Sande said...

"Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" , haven't seen it myself, I tend to steer away from that high brow stuff ;)

Glynn Kalara said...

Every time I eat something with tomato sauce I get just such an attack. :(