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To: RandFan
To heighten their colour, the rhizomes from which the spice is extracted are routinely dusted with lead chromate, a neurotoxin. The practice helps explain why South Asia has the highest rates of lead poisoning in the world.

The first sentence does not prove the second. It gets worse from there...

The heart and brain diseases it causes—to which children are especially susceptible—accounted for at least 1.4m deaths in the region in 2019.

From Turmeric? Or lead in general? They don't say, let alone prove causation, yet that is the unfounded conclusion. Lead is a huge issue in Third World crops, including coffee imported to the U.S. (mainly from Africa).

2 posted on 04/16/2024 9:01:40 PM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813

Ummmm - what don’t you understand abut “being dusted with lead chromate”?

You gonna swear by Turmeric even if it’s sometimes laced with poison? I hear there’s some green Kool-Aid sitting on the shelves somewhere....Mmmmm - tastes like limes...


43 posted on 04/17/2024 5:00:15 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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