There are things I cannot eat anymore....

...cancer can change the way you think, or at least it can make the focus more clear. There is this international awareness of Genetically Engineered Organisms (GMO), and I need to address that as it has much to do with the subject of this blog.
When you get sick there is a great deal of reflection concerning how that happened. Is it something I did? Didn't do? Was I merely in the wrong place, or is there no provable connection to a cause ? Was I born with those genes involved, or was it a foreign mutagen?
I joke that I gave up fast food because I didn't wanna get cancer... but that ain't all of it. No it goes far beyond a simple factor of "tobacco use may lead to lung or other cancers," something easier to control. Oooops, exposure to 2nd hand smoke, a bigger cause than previously thought. How many times have we heard that: "Ooops we didn't think that through..." Well, hell, are you gonna trust that kind of science? How about researchers being paid to ignore detrimental findings? Oh, that would never happen in the good ole USA! Remember folks, this is business, and ethics go right out the window along with flimsy morals and any kind of social conscience where profits are concerned.
So I'm finding some things, and although I would like to believe what I see in so-called scientific journals, my experience tells me that such findings can be just as tainted by conflict of interest (or more so) as any "anecdotal" hypotheses. Our rule of Justice in this country has been one of proof, and reasonable doubt. GMO's and the companies involved in the research and manufacture have been accused of hiding the truth about their products rather than coming out in the open. Well, it is not right to block unbiased research and then build your defense on the lack of proof. Let me put it this way, you don't have to be psychic, your common sense will tell you when you smell a rat it's likely you have a rodent problem.

But... ya know, I don't worry none about any of that, nahhh, in fact, I probably don't even care! Not any more. I say the truth will out in time.... Hey "Transfats" are no longer "generally considered safe" so who could know? I mean, I read the European studies from the 1950's and yet I was raised on Wonder bread and Imperial margarine.... it's a good thing we had church pot luck socials and I don't think we ever missed one. There were a few families and the "church ladies" didn't mind having someone finish their jello-salad and tuna casserole. Yet, even then I was 120 lbs. soaking wet, fully dressed, at the age of 20. No, this is not a scientific study, there were many random factors involved, mostly me. I don't know for sure how I lived to see 30, but that is another book.....