Posted on 06/24/2013 5:04:31 PM PDT by opentalk
Selling poison = Freedom? I must of missed the memo!
That's just public ignorance, as far as I can see. When people think "chemical" they think of things like the reagents found in chemistry sets. There's no excuse for it really, but part of it is just emotion.
The same guy that got me the MSDS for water once saw me eating some cheese spread, and said, "You wouldn't eat that if you knew what was in it!" I asked him "what was in it," and he replied, "eartha-bait." I knew immediately what he was talking about, but one he rambled about "eartha-bait," and how it was made from earthworms, and how "they" put it in all kinds of processed foods. Of course he was talking about erythorbate, which has nothing to do with earthworms, but he had already swallowed the entire myth, hook, line and sinker.
If people would only think with their brains, instead of their emotions, they wouldn't be such suckers for propaganda!
America is one of the few places in the world that I have ever been that has milk in a cooler. Everywhere else, it was UHT Pasteurization and sold on the shelves. It, for me was an acquired taste. Since returning stateside, I can't drink milk at all, and limit myself to almond milk.
In our breakroom at work, the hand soap bottle claims “92% Naturally Derived Ingredients!” One must wonder, how are the other 8% of ingredients derived? Must be voodoo or something, right?
You can pry my Fruit Loops from my cold dead fingers....... wait, what?
I love it, too. I'm just craving what they had down South because I've not tasted anything like here. Multiple different brands down there and the stuff is irradiated but still tastes like fresh creamery milk. Off the shelf!
Why can't we do that here?!? /whine
Oh yes. As I said, as a child it was a run to get at granddad bringing the milk buckets before he could *do* anything with it. Like filtering or separation or stuff :).
That all changed with centralized dairy pickup and the legal stuff on top of that.
Also, kinda makes me wonder if the whole Paula Deen thing is the revenge of the Wookie?
Is there any way to mail order milk in a bag?
When I was very young, the nursery school I went to served milk straight from the cow. I remember it being very creamy and it was served warm. With Ritz crackers.
The health food store has some really good vacuums in the back, with which they suck everything out of the packaging. I mean, if it really "contains no chemicals", that means it contains nothing, not even air, doesn't it?
Nice to find a fellow milk lover. I could live on the stuff. Unfortunately, raw milk is extremely expensive where I live, $14.00 a gallon, or I could drive 30 minutes one way to a farm and get fresh raw milk and pay for the mileage. Ugghh
Ha-ha. Good luck finding a majority of people who do that, even on FR here. What really gets me is not just that they fall for these ridiculous unscientific stories, but that they become so emotionally attached to them. Goodness, isn't your health worth a bit more than an emotional attachment to propaganda?
These things may or may not be dangerous, but repeatedly saying that they are made from petroleum in order to make these substances sound scarier is simply alarmist nonsense. Practically EVERY chemical manufactured, including practically ALL medicines are derived from petroleum as petroleum is the basis for practically ALL organic chemistry.
The point is that in enlightened countries, people surrender their freedom in return for a food supply they can trust.
Years ago I watched a PBS special about fire prevention, in which a certain country was touted as a model country in that regard. The moderator spoke in glowing tones of how in that country fire control personnel could go right into a person's home and perform a fire safety inspection at any time. "This isn't done in America," he concluded, in ominous tones. "In America they would rather burn."
Correct, dihydrogen monoxide is quite a dangerous substance, it is NO JOKE! Thousands are killed by it annually, and many others badly hurt. This is well-documented here:
Same here.
UHT milk is quite popular in remote areas of Canada, where people have cabins that are off-grid. It’s also popular amongst anyone who works in the bush, such as: prospectors, surveyors, trappers, etc. Same goes for condensed milk in a can, or canned sweetened condensed milk. I developed a taste for it, and preferred it for my coffee for a few years.
FDA is the largest and most powerful organization of its type in the world. Dream on!
Ever bought Fruit Loops? Cereal is so expensive now the chemicals in them must be rare elements.
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