Cllr. Gavin Ayling

At the moment I am reading The Ancestor’s Tale by Richard Dawkins.

It’s a really great book. He touches on milk intolerance and wheat intolerance quite early on. To summarise he suggests that humans did not originally evolve to eat the seeds of grass. The seeds of grass, unlike fruit, did not evolve to take advantage of passing through a digestive tract of a mammal. Grasses do not need animals to eat their seed in order for their seed to be distributed.

So, for humans to be able to eat grasses (oats, wheat, rice etc) we have evolved slightly. In Dawkins’ words we have been ‘domesticated’ by our circumstanes in the same way as dogs (apparently all descended from wolves) have been domesticated.

So those of you who are able to eat wheat are, in simple terms, more evolved than me. I am a throwback!

As expected, Southlands and Worthing Hospitals’ Hands Around the Hospitals event yesterday is now available in pictures. See the Shoreham Herald.

This is in support of KWASH — sign the petition.

The impact of the oil-folly in Iraq is still expanding. North Korea’s nuclear test is a clear sign to the rest of the world that the UN is impotent and that the US has made pre-emptive miltary action a non-option.