In uk.rec.gardening Michael Saunby wrote:
: "Tim Tyler" wrote in message ...

: Specific enzymes exist to detoxify plant toxins that were naturally in
: our diet - and they have worked well enough to get us this far.

: No they haven't. [...]

? Clearly we got here. Pesticides and herbicides can hardly take
responsibility for that - since they are a recent phenomenon.

: The same is not true of man-made insecticides, pesticides and fungicides.

: Of course not - they've not evolved to harm anything that eats them, indeed
: they've been designed not to.

More to the point, they've been designed to make the chemical corps money.

To that end, they are invisible to consumers - and likely do the minimum
necessary to pass regulator's safety standards.

: All in all it's better to eat meat - animals generally defend themselves by
: running away rather than producing toxins, so all you need is a means of
: catching them.

Not logical. You can't conclude it's better to eat meat because it can
run away.

Meat is higher up the food chain for one thing - and thus will concentrate
environmental toxins.
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