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Wild Vegetables
Fri, May 16, 2008 - 10:43 PMI've brought this up to several people since I thought about it and yet no one has claimed to have seen any wild vegetables nor has anyone been able to give a reasonable explanation for this. I think it's a conspiracy.
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Sat, May 17, 2008 - 4:38 AM
They are genetically grown in secret underground laboratories and regulated by the...
Oh no! I hear agents coming! I've got to run... |
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Sat, May 17, 2008 - 10:29 AM
there are plenty of "wild vegetables," however, they do not look anything like the cultivated varieties. many wild plants have edible tubers like potatoes, or leafy greens or flowers. you are on to something with the conspiratorial nature of our food supply, however. fact is, nearly everything we eat, cereal grains, vegetables, domesticated animals, and even fruit and nut trees, originated in the middle east about 10,000 years ago, and whats more, most if not nearly all of these food crops have no known genetic predecessor....just like us, at least, we have 240 genomes in our genetic code that science has found no precedent for on this entire planet. whats more, millet, spelt and several other cereal grains have been found in caves in the middle east dating 40,000 years old, and they are genetically identical to the plant in its present state....it seems that these many plants just "appeared" in a state that would have taken thousands of years of genetic selection to accomplish, all at once, with no traceable genetic trail showing the natural progression of these food crops from the grasses they once were. just like homo sapiens magically "appeared" 200,000 years ago with no traceable genetic link to homo erectus...it "should" have taken millions of years for neanderthals to "become" cro magnons, but it happened seemingly instanteniously.....its all quite interesting, no?
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Sat, May 17, 2008 - 11:49 AM
yeah, to make a long story short:
vegetables as we know them are domesticated plants, much like cows are domesticated animals, they have been bred to be harvested and used for human consumption, and have changed over thousands of years. they actually sell books on edible wildplants, where in the country you can find them, how to cook them, etc etc. |
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Sat, May 17, 2008 - 1:08 PM
There are plenty of veggie-things in nature to be eaten... especially leafy greens. Many of the plants we call weeds are actually delicious salad greens! Try chickweed in a salad, or steam some stinging nettles (heat deactivates the stinging acid in the spikes), or dandelion greens!
Wild asparagus is fairly common out in the country, it grows along roadsides and the edges of fields... but I haven't seen any around here. |
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Sat, May 17, 2008 - 7:17 PM
I've thought about this all day and the best I can come up with is close to what TIa.Mat said, damn you Daniel Quinn!!!.....I need to think a bit more on this though....
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Sun, May 18, 2008 - 8:05 AM
Blue berries was discovered in NJ
Saw a PBS documentary on it.
Wild veggies are weeds..:) Weeds a good thing..:) Mid east, what about naked Adam and eve? fig leaves were first underwear..:) They appeared from no where..:) |
