How nice.
Unfortunately, the phrase "food of the gods" brings up other images for those of us old enough to catch "Giant Animal Week" on the 4:30 movie. In fact, "food of the gods" like "Frankenstein" has a sort of "don't mess with that-there" cache shared by items like thermonuclear devices, angry skunks, and manhole covers with black goo oozing up out of them.
In fact, a truly weird movie called Food of the Gods (1976) demonstrated that all manner of bad stuff could happen by tampering with nature. A bad sceintist, who was not interested in nuclear weapons decided to make a master race by feeding a mysterious substance called "food of the gods" to experimental animals, like rats. Among other nasty things, the rats got REALLY big...like bigger than the ones you could see in New York City in the bad neighborhoods c. 1985, and some of those were bigger than a house cat. The movie poster shows rats with red glowing eyes who are g
enerally up to no good.(Left) Zucker Rat by Joanna Servaes (Gnu licensee)...this rat is overweight and appears kindly, so probably was not eating food of the gods.
The kicker in this film is that at the end of the movie, when all the monster rats are killed and the evil scientists who was bent on creating a master race have been vanquished or imprisoned or what have you, the extra food of the gods falls into a river where it gets drunk by so
me cows who give milk that is then served in a day care.Rachel Carson would have been very upset. She tended not to like environmental evils like pollution and PCBs and stuff.
Cow photo by Daniel Schwen. Used by Gnu licence.
