> PS If we all put in gardens and ate what we grew, we'd be a lot healthier,
> too. The only way to effect change in America's (by far the worst) eating
> habits is to let the unhealthy ones die as an example to society. Will that
> ever happen? Not likely.
You are right, in that it is not likely. I suppose there will
always be people eating food from gardens, but as more and more
preservatives are being added to our food, artificial selection will favor
those with the higher tolerances for such additives. Those who are less
able to survive such chemicals will set a darwinian example, so to speak.
Maybe mercury will actually be pretty tasty in five hundred years.
-dan