Funny, recently I watched the moving “Safe” with Julianne Moore. A truly stunning piece of work that didn’t make me fall in love with the word “chemical” either.
This is a load of crap. MSG occurs naturally in all sorts of foods. Tomatoes, cheese, peas all contain MSG. This is just another paranoid conspiracy theory and has been debunked a million times.
There's nothing wrong with adding preservatives to food. In fact, preservatives saves lives. People used to eat bad food and die from it. Fresh food is often much more delicious, but it can be wasteful to, say, buy a loaf of bread from a bakery that doesn't use preservatives; in my house, the bread would NOT be eaten before mold grew. Also, just because you can't buy the ingredients in a store doesn't mean they're not almost or exactly the same thing. We make food differently in our homes than food produced in factories and such. Some ingredients we use at home are simply replaced with an equivalent ingredient that's difficult or unsafe* to use in one's home but can be safely and easily used in a factory/whatever you call a food producing plant. You are correct in saying that it is SOMETIMES not an equivalent ingredient that's used, but that usually only happens in cheaper foods. Regardless, some would define food as "what you eat." The term "food product" isn't really well defined and it's one with a connotation of "undesirable."*"unsafe" meaning that it would be easy to use a toxic amount.
Yep, this is true from a pharma-sense (where production methods/mechanisms are otherworldly measured and precise). But it's sometimes tough to tell how with other industries are when it comes to production and quality control (in all honesty, it probably doesn't make a lot of difference for many applications)
It's just a naming problem.Organic is a silly word that some marketing drone chose. What it means is something like "grown in a traditional way without steroids/antibiotics". There is a difference between "organic" and industrially "processed" food... and there's another misnomer -- all food is except raw fruits and vegetables was processed.
mabakerbrakerMar 22, 2010
Funny, recently I watched the moving “Safe” with Julianne Moore. A truly stunning piece of work that didn’t make me fall in love with the word “chemical” either.
Closed AccountMar 22, 2010
This is a load of crap. MSG occurs naturally in all sorts of foods. Tomatoes, cheese, peas all contain MSG. This is just another paranoid conspiracy theory and has been debunked a million times.
khsaterMar 22, 2010
There's nothing wrong with adding preservatives to food. In fact, preservatives saves lives. People used to eat bad food and die from it. Fresh food is often much more delicious, but it can be wasteful to, say, buy a loaf of bread from a bakery that doesn't use preservatives; in my house, the bread would NOT be eaten before mold grew. Also, just because you can't buy the ingredients in a store doesn't mean they're not almost or exactly the same thing. We make food differently in our homes than food produced in factories and such. Some ingredients we use at home are simply replaced with an equivalent ingredient that's difficult or unsafe* to use in one's home but can be safely and easily used in a factory/whatever you call a food producing plant. You are correct in saying that it is SOMETIMES not an equivalent ingredient that's used, but that usually only happens in cheaper foods. Regardless, some would define food as "what you eat." The term "food product" isn't really well defined and it's one with a connotation of "undesirable."*"unsafe" meaning that it would be easy to use a toxic amount.
mrm1yagiMar 23, 2010
Moist. Perfectly dreadful. A bit tinny.
jbmcbMar 23, 2010
I'm not a big enough geek to use digg to find people to "party" with.
dontthinksoMar 23, 2010
Moist! My little... moisture... buddy.
theone12Mar 23, 2010
Yep, this is true from a pharma-sense (where production methods/mechanisms are otherworldly measured and precise). But it's sometimes tough to tell how with other industries are when it comes to production and quality control (in all honesty, it probably doesn't make a lot of difference for many applications)
crocodile7Mar 23, 2010
It's just a naming problem.Organic is a silly word that some marketing drone chose. What it means is something like "grown in a traditional way without steroids/antibiotics". There is a difference between "organic" and industrially "processed" food... and there's another misnomer -- all food is except raw fruits and vegetables was processed.
frostekMar 23, 2010
*Some* vegans are retards.