I enjoyed reading the thread, all 22 pages of it ....
I grew up in a "modern, forward thinking" world where they sprayed the neighborhood streets with white clouds of DDT and Chlordane to cut down on the malaria and other disease spreading deadly mosquitoes -- so what we killed off the fish and birds and who knows what else (and gave all the kiddies them little skin cancers all over their bodies that we all still have). But we did knock out TB, malaria, measles, small-pox etc. which was what we were after -- and the average age of Americans went up accordingly.
Average age is still increasing, despite us doing all the bad things to ourselves that we have done dietetically.
Wheat is just one item on the list, and it ain't nearly as bad as cigarettes or alcohol for a chronic user.
We all die from our choices, good or bad whatever they are .....
Take heart, when the oil runs out the bad wheat won't grow without oil based fertilizers and Round-UP -- and millions will go hungry accordingly.
We can't feed the existing population without oil-based agriculture, so in 15-20 years we'll all go hungry together.
It was nice to see Bill typing in full sentences, too