When I was eight years old, I found myself at home all alone.
I had just arrived from school; my parents had gone shopping and not yet returned.
I spotted a wind-up clock that had caught my attention on several occasions.
It had always intrigued me by the way it ran and ran, and kept good time.
What made it work? I had to find out.
Now was as good a time as any.
It is our nature to find out how things work, whether we are eight or eighty, whether we are illiterate or have doctorates in physics.
I was by no means any different, so...
I got a butter knife and started to unscrew the clock piece by piece.
If it didn't come apart easily, I forced it.
I was after all in charge of this project.
Needless to say when my parents got home, the clock components were all over the kitchen table.
I had not had the time nor the ability to put it back together.
I was punished and told I had no business trying to do things for which I had no skill or knowledge.
They were right of course.
I never tried to take a clock apart again.
I just got through reading an article of the dangers of eating wheat products.
So much for the staff of life.
It appears that scientists have managed to take a kernel of wheat apart and change it so that it no longer does what it was intended to do in its natural form.
According to Dr.
William Davis, a cardiologist who has written a book on the dangers of modern day wheat, we should quit eating wheat products altogether.
Geneticists have modified wheat so that yields are now ten fold from what mother nature had intended.
Not only that, now we have a new element called "gladian" which stimulates the appetite like an opiate.
We are never satisfied; we need to eat more and more.
Consequently, we suffer from a variety of illnesses such as obesity and diabetes, and the list goes on.
It now belongs on the poisoned wheat list.
It also means someone out there is making a large profit from wheat genetics.
Personally, I didn't sign up for this when I decided to be a member of this world.
This isn't exactly a clock, but I'm sure you get the picture, and someone needs to get their proverbial butts kicked for taking things apart for which they haven't the experience or the expertise to fool with.
Unfortunately this kind of genetic intrusion into the unknown isn't so easily fixed or replaced with a new one.
But the impact on society is so overwhelming that we, as concerned citizens, need to make ourselves heard.
I, for one, will start writing to my congress people and letting them know that they need to do something and they need to do it right away.
I like my hamburger buns.
I like my toast in the morning.
I will not stop eating wheat products completely just because some eight year old kid fooled with nature's clock.
But I will stop eating wheat products if I have to so that the Profiteers get the message.
Everyone can do something to help pave the way for our children.
"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls of those who live under tyranny.
" - Thomas Jefferson Get involved, make a difference, and give nature control over our health, and lives, once again.