Alive food

From: John Sankey (bf250_at_FreeNet.Carleton.CA)
Date: 02/14/05 

Date: 14 Feb 2005 14:32:39 GMT

I'm not sure if this is the right group to raise this, because I've
no proof that it affects our nutrition, but it might.

When I was growing up, our food was alive. If we wanted sprouts for
our salad, we put grocery-bought pot barley into a bowl with a bit of
water, and grew them. Same thing with beans, and many seeds (I
remember sesame in particular). Today, the only grains I can find
that are still alive are wheat. Even health food stores here say they
can't get live barley or rice any more.

If you bought fruit when I was young, and planted the seeds, they
grew - we had a small indoor forest of citrus fruit, date and fig
trees. Today, I have a selection of over a dozen pots with various
fruit seeds in them - zero response.

For years, I made banana bread for Christmas. (I don't mean banana
pound cake, but real yeast bread.) Since Christmas 2003, my bread
stays as doorstops - the yeast is killed. (Of course I checked yeast,
all other ingredients, and tried every brand of bananas I could find
from different retail stores.)

Does anyone else care about this? Is there a better group to discuss
it?

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