"Every act of human brilliance contains the seeds of its own stupidity", Garrison Keillor.
Food allergies and sensitivities are on the rise. A greater and greater percentage of people are suffering or will suffer from problems related to food allergies (especially gluten, corn and dairy) and won't even know it. Just google it, google "gluten allergies". There are some fascinating studies being done by neurologists on gluten sensitivities in particular.
So, why the rise in allergies and the depletion of snacking options? A lot of fingers point to our very own acts of genius, GMO's (with some pesticides thrown into the mix). By our handy-dandy tweaks here and there we've made our food grow bigger (because we NEED bigger portion sizes, right?), grow stronger, grow more resistant to aggressors, and we're even looking into making our food DO MORE (how about a vaccine in a banana?). The problem is, what if these tweaks have tweaked more than we wanted to tweak? What if, in wheat, and other grains containing gluten, the pesticides and genetic modifications have altered the gluten protein in such a way that our bodies are less and less able to tolerate it? What if all of the pasteurization and homogenization we do to our milk alters the casein proteins and kills the enzymes already in the milk that help our bodies to process the casein. We won't even start with corn and all the genetic modifications there.
It's funny, in the Old Testament Law God basically tells his people not to mess with nature, don't alter things from the way He's made them. Don't sow your fields with two types of seed, don't cross breed animals. Do you think there's a reason He told the Israelites this? Maybe the way He made it is the way He meant it and we can't really improve on God, not without doing a lot of damage on the side anyway, which disqualifies anything as an "improvement". Does this mean that everything man does is dumb? No, the opening quote is an exaggeration, God made us creative, inquisitive beings, but He also gave us limits, He gave us rules. Just like a train needs its tracks to go full speed ahead, we need God's rules to keep our lives, spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally, relationally on track and moving forward. He knows what's best, lets trust Him for it.
