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[Thomas Allen <thallen@nwlink.com>]

Regarding lysine deficiency:
At least one archeologist I have read has speculated that toward the  
end of their civilization, the Anasazi (indigenous people of southwest  
north america until c. 1300 CE) diet consisted almost entirely of  
corn. They had hunted out the game within a reasonable distance and  
apparently abandoned growing beans. The resulting lysine deficiency  
induced a form of insanity, no doubt leading to poor decisions by  
leaders/rulers and hastening the end of the civilization. What are our  
"leaders" eating?


On Nov 7, 2011, at 10:41 PM, Douglas Woodard wrote:

> High lysine corn bred by conventional methods goes back several  
> decades
> but seems to have been limited to animal feed and was not completely
> successful commercially. More recently GMO high-lysine corn has been
> promoted as human food.
>
> Among references I noted:
>
> <http://www.aspd.org/publicaffairs/briefing/larkins.cfm>
> and
> <http://www.gmls.eu/beitraege/GML52_Breckling.pdf>
>
> Doug Woodard
> St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
>
>
> On 11/7/2011 2:03 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
> > > I had in mind eating such foods high lysine corn +
> >
> > Unless I am completely wrong I think this is a new gmo variety  
> > Lawrence.
> > j
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