Yet the fact is - and it is a fact - that almost all poisons come from plants, and that, saving Polar Bear's liver and some parts of a few species of fish, animals are edible. This is because plants have had an awfully long to time to evolve poisons to stop animals eating them - since long before mammals, or even mammal-like reptiles, came on the scene.
A majority of plants are either inedible or poisonous. Even some staple foodstuffs - I am thinking here of casava but you could also include potatoes - have to be processed to be edible, and can only be eaten at certain stages of ripeness.
My own, personal, foam-at-the-mouth moments come when some of these so-called experts use the word "nutrients" to mean "vitamins and minerals" when it actually means sugars, starches, fats and proteins! They tell us that sugar "contains no nutrients" and here am I yelling, "Not when I went to school!" And starches, I might point out, are all broken down to sugars in our guts, anyway.
Sorry to take over your rant, which I agree with entirely.
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Date: 2007-11-13 09:43 am (UTC)A majority of plants are either inedible or poisonous. Even some staple foodstuffs - I am thinking here of casava but you could also include potatoes - have to be processed to be edible, and can only be eaten at certain stages of ripeness.
My own, personal, foam-at-the-mouth moments come when some of these so-called experts use the word "nutrients" to mean "vitamins and minerals" when it actually means sugars, starches, fats and proteins! They tell us that sugar "contains no nutrients" and here am I yelling, "Not when I went to school!" And starches, I might point out, are all broken down to sugars in our guts, anyway.
Sorry to take over your rant, which I agree with entirely.