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  • From: Thomas Allen <thallen@nwlink.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Protein in vegetarian diet | Re: Fwd: [New post] Maintaining the garden
  • Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 08:35:32 -0800

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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