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Post by mskrieger on Jul 25, 2017 10:46:13 GMT -5
I asked about a number of grain growers that i know if they spray glyphosate to aid ripening, and most do, meet one farmer who said he would never want to eat the grain he grows, as long as i get paid once it leaves the farm gate..... Doesn't that make ya sick!!! Oh that's nasty! I knew farmers out West do that on lentils--so I now wash all my bought beans in a couple of changes of water before soaking and cooking--but grain?!?!?!?! A market gardener recently tipped me off to a (relatively) local farmer who grows culinary varieties wheat and corn and grinds it on the farm premises. At first I thought that it was a long ways, and somewhat inconvenient, to be buying my flour from him but now I'm rethinking that. |
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Post by Walk on Jul 26, 2017 12:45:02 GMT -5
I asked about a number of grain growers that i know if they spray glyphosate to aid ripening, and most do, meet one farmer who said he would never want to eat the grain he grows, as long as i get paid once it leaves the farm gate..... Doesn't that make ya sick!!! Oh that's nasty! I knew farmers out West do that on lentils--so I now wash all my bought beans in a couple of changes of water before soaking and cooking--but grain?!?!?!?! A market gardener recently tipped me off to a (relatively) local farmer who grows culinary varieties wheat and corn and grinds it on the farm premises. At first I thought that it was a long ways, and somewhat inconvenient, to be buying my flour from him but now I'm rethinking that. Glyphosate is systemic, taken into the plant through leaves and distributed throughout. Washing won't remove it. |
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Post by mskrieger on Jul 26, 2017 16:26:23 GMT -5
Fantastic.
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Post by steev on Jul 26, 2017 19:09:58 GMT -5
This is generally why un-pesticided produce, while often blemished, is better for one's health; so much of what is sprayed on commercial is incorporated into the tissues; at least bug-shit can be washed off, if one is squeamish (it is a little-known fact that bug-shit contains all essential vitamins and minerals, and it adds a hint of "crunch"). Just ask your local Arthropod.
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Post by prairiegardens on Aug 7, 2017 1:14:28 GMT -5
There's also the question of how wheat is handled after harvest. Way back when, it was stooked and left in the field to cure which actually ( so I am told) slightly fermented it as it finished drying, which altered the problem proteins and made them less of a problem. Now it's off the stalk and
into the bins and off to market. Supposedly a Harvard study found that every person tested actually had a reaction to wheat even if it didn't manifest enough for some people to notice it. They apparently tried older varieties of wheat as well as modern ones but I don't know how any of it was grown or handled during harvest.
Something I learned after owning horses for many many years was that hay needs a couple of days to a week in the bale before it's safe to feed. I never had a problem but at a horse show someone from the US bought some lovely looking freshly baled hay straight off the field behind the baler and every one of his horses colicked, the family were walking the horses throughout the night so they wouldn't roll. Someone else also showing horses there who knew 1000 times as much as me about horses told me it was the hay being too fresh, that it needed to cure. I'd never heard of this, but believed him because he told me that before the horses colicked, he said they were going to be in trouble when he saw it being fed.And so they were. So I wonder if it's the same sort of process, and just like people and wheat, some are more vulnerable than others.
of course, everyone is susceptible to damage from spray, but wondering if there other elements as well in play.
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