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To: long-gone who wrote (84593)	4/21/2002 8:14:06 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116762

Well Zizania is still grass family and has many broad similarities in plant and seed form and type. Apart from the genetic difference, wild rice has clearly more food value. It has much more protein and vitamin than conventional rice. The hybrids they are developing now of oryza (domesticated asian rice), if they are true to form of the many modern high-yield hybrids, will probably have less food value, not more. This is not a solution to world hunger. It is far more likely that a more disease resistant plant that grows in more places is the better solution. It is a sad that wild rices is not resistant to insect depradation that can eradicate crops completetely with 100% losses in any one year. For this reason insecticides are widely used. There are however, organic wild rice farms. In the end the only sure way to guaranteed wild rice cultivation that is safe and high yield is to reduce the human population. This can be done in many ways. One way is to kill everybody in a global war. Or introduce widepread sterility. (Start with enemies and imagined enemies). Pangs of hunger vanish quickly. Actually you would not have to look for enemies if you started doing this. You would have lots in a hurry. The solution to world hunger is not to crank out more starch and less protein and use deadly insecticides EC<:-}