I actually saw a label in some health food store that stated “contains no chemicals”. How does the stuff exist?
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!
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?
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?