While we're speaking of amusing correlations, check out this one. Perhaps organic food also causes autism? :)
http://geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/01/05/will-my-child-be-born-autistic-if-i-eat-gmos-a-scientists-view/ <http://geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/01/05/will-my-child-be-born-autistic-if-i-eat-gmos-a-scientists-view/> Randall Steffens II Weimar College Weimar, California > On Feb 27, 2015, at 5:16 AM, Ginda Fisher <l...@ginda.us > <mailto:l...@ginda.us>> wrote: > > > On Feb 26, 2015, at 10:34 PM, Jon Clements wrote: >> ... >> 6.) What ever happened to BST/BGH push-back and labeling? Ginda, I will let >> you look that one up. >> ... >> Jon > > I don't need to look that one up, because I've followed it. The differences > between the milk and meat of BST/BGH-treated cows is too small to be > conclusively measured (higher levels of this and that, but within the normal > range) HOWEVER, the incidence of mastitis and other maladies is significantly > higher in cows treated with BST than in untreated cows. So, just as the > "roundup ready" gene doesn't affect how your body interacts with food, but > the greater residue of roundup might be a concern, the hormonal changes in > the milk are probably unimportant, but you are probably exposed to more > antibiotic residue (and anti-biotic-resistant bacterial contamination) from > the milk (and meat) of treated cows. > > It's been outlawed in Canada, the EU, and several other first-world > countries, mostly on animal welfare grounds. It remains legal in the US, but > most of the milk in my supermarket says "our farmers pledged not to use BST". > Checking with wikipedia, this isn't just a yuppie phenomenon, a large number > of major brands of milk, including Costco's "Kirkland" brand, Walmart's > "Great Value" brand, and many more. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_somatotropin > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_somatotropin> > > The wikipedia article doesn't have any recent data on how commonly it is > used, but says: > > "From 2000-2005 the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) > survey of dairy producers found that about 17% of producers used rBST.[23] > The 2010 USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service survey of Wisconsin > farms found that about 18% of dairy farms used rBST.[24]" > > So it's still out there, but most of our milk supply is from untreated cows. > > ... > > John, your first link in both intriguing and scary. > > 1.) I would be a lot more worried about this > http://www.the-open-mind.com/mit-estimates-half-of-all-children-autistic-in-10-years-due-to-monsanto-1/#fsWKjef2oeh3k4OW.01 > ... > Do you know anything about how reliable the author is? She uses a lot of > graphs of correlations, that I find very unconvincing. There are all manner > of things that correlate, and most of them aren't causal. Some are both > causally related to a third factor, and some are completely random. If you > want to see some fun, random correlations, check out this link. > > http://www.tylervigen.com/ > > Ginda Fisher > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > apple-crop@virtualorchard.net > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop
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