Hi,
Douglas, I fully share your remarks on gmo's, patents and cerfain
developments in agriculture and society.
As promised, some data on mineralchange in sprouting seeds. Source is a
French book: "Decouvrez les graines germees" (discover sprouted grains)
from 1983 by M. Cayla.
He gives for wheat the following figures:
Phosphorus:
Magnesium Calcium
whole grain 423mg%
133mg% 45mg%
sprouted grain 1050mg% 342mg%
71mg%
In oats he found an augmentation of Calcium of 300-350%
Unfortunately, most of the sprout-research has focused on vitamins and
amino acids.
One interesting figure concerns provit A in rice Carotene in rice
increases from 0,3mg in unsprouted rice to 4mg/100g in seedlings of seven
days. (I do not know how riceseedlings taste and whether they are used as
food anywhere.)
I will dive further into the mineral issue and see what has happened since
the eighties in research. Anyway I agree that more research is needed.
wytze
Douglas Hinds wrote:
> Hi wytze,
>
> Monday, April 10, 2000, 12:47:56 PM, you wrote:
>
> w> Hi John, Douglas,
>
> w> ... Douglas' remark on the richer soils and healthier soils makes
> w> sense to me but is the increase in minerals than caused by the
> w> combination of compost and soil micro organisms?
>
> Well, you need the compost / humus to help breed the micro-organisms
> which help make minerals accessible, but above all I would stress the
> need for further research regarding these natural, symbiotic
> processes. This of course requires funding. Speaking of funding:
>
> In terms of my social conscience, I am offended the vast, wasteful,
> expensive and totally needless campaign to cash in on (develop, market
> and thus exploit) unique, patentable recombinant organisms designed
> first and foremost to benefit their developers and pushers, who are
> little better than criminals in my book.
>
> Evidently we find ourselves in the midst of a struggle where the
> natural world is being trashed (both psychologically and physically)
> as unfit, just so others can substitute processes that took millions
> of years to develop with others (*"theirs"*) that have more potential
> to lower the quality of life as we (and all those that preceded us)
> know it than to fulfill the greenback backed hype that's being spewed
> out in the media.
>
> And this is happening even before the natural process that gave rise
> to life itself are fully understood.
>
> Maybe I should go back to the states and run for president.
>
> Or just urge that more research be done on biological systems, while a
> moratorium is implemented on the further release of GMOs in
> agriculture.
>
> Douglas
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