[lbo-talk] Narmada Dam (was Arundhati Roy etc.)

[John Thornton]

Carrol Cox wrote:
> misery on huge numbers. The cultivation of grain & the techique of
> baking bread doomed the women of neolithic cultures in the middle east
> to crippling from rheumatism and to spending much of their lives
> kneeling to grind the day's grain for the evening meal. 

Rheumatic (Rheumatoid) Arthritis is a genetic disease. Grinding wheat 
does not cause it.
My SO has recently been diagnosed with it, as was her mother and older 
sister.
She has not lead the life of a manual laborer.
Although she danced and taught ballet from age 5 to 25 it has no bearing 
on the progression of the disease.

John Thornton