How the FDA lets chemicals pour into America's food supply

[Hamish Howl]

Yep. I'm going to always have to say I am pro "having chemicals in my food".

I watched RFK Jr complaining about riboflavin.

Which is of course vitamin B2.

 

[Variant]

I watched RFK Jr complaining about riboflavin.

Which is of course vitamin B2.

Was he complaining about too much or too little?

I'm not gonna have to smuggle multivitamins in from Canada am I?

 

[Allan]

Today I saw MAGA ask for more government regulations and the associated headcount.

...whilst eating granola with almond milk.

 

[Hamish Howl]

...whilst eating granola with almond milk.

AND NON-GLUTEN AVOCADO TOAST!

 

[Allan]

AND NON-GLUTEN AVOCADO TOAST!

Free range non-gluten avacado toast.

 

[Hamish Howl]

Was he complaining about too much or too little?

I'm not gonna have to smuggle multivitamins in from Canada am I?

He felt is was a chemical added unnecessarily to our food.

I shit you not. Then he was going off about Niacin.

 

[Hamish Howl]

Free range non-gluten avacado toast.

LOCALLY-SOURCED FREE RANGE NON-GLUTEN AVOCADO TOAST!

 

[Variant]

He felt is was a chemical added unnecessarily to our food.

I shit you not. Then he was going off about Niacin.

That's definitely way dumber than I thought.

Perhaps the food industry can sit him down and tell him what some of these "chemicals" are.

 

[Variant]

French fries in oil should surprise no one.

Xanthan gum is a starchy chemical that should bother no one.

Dextrose is glucose, the most basic sugar imaginable.

Citric acid is the acid that fruits make.

The only thing that should remotely bother you about that label is that it contains one preservative.

 

[Hamish Howl]

That's definitely way dumber than I thought.

Perhaps the food industry can sit him down and tell him what some of these "chemicals" are.

He's grifting, just like Trump.

Except that he's dumber.

And they said it couldn't be done!

 

[Hamish Howl]

French fries in oil should surprise no one.

Xanthan gum is a starchy chemical that should bother no one.

Dextrose is glucose, the most basic sugar imaginable.

Citric acid is the acid that fruits make.

The only thing that should remotely bother you about that label is that it contains one preservative.

"The food babe's" finest moment is when she said airliners don't provide regular air, because what they pipe into the cabin is at least 50% nitrogen.



Here we go:

In another much-mocked post, “Food Babe Travel Essentials — No Reason to Panic on the Plane!” Ms. Hari criticized the air on an airplane. Because of cost concerns, the air “pumped in isn’t pure oxygen, either, it’s mixed with nitrogen, sometimes at almost 50 percent,” she wrote. Except ambient air isn’t pure oxygen, either. It’s roughly 78 percent nitrogen. The widely discredited post, where Ms. Hari also complained about the flight attendants’ stinginess with water in first class, was removed swiftly.

Vani Hari, a.k.a. "The Food Babe," doubles down on the misinformation in her response to the New York Times | ScienceBlogs

To put it mildly, I'm not a big fan of Vani Hari, who has achieved Internet notoriety as a highly misguided "food activist" better known as The Food Babe. As The Food Babe, Hari has improbably become a minor celebrity by attacking food companies over various ingredients their products and...

scienceblogs.com

 

[Variant]

"The food babe's" finest moment is when she said airliners don't provide regular air, because what they pipe into the cabin is 70% nitrogen.

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Well... Can't really fix that kind of stupid.

 

[Hamish Howl]

Well... Can't really fix that kind of stupid.

This is precisely the sort of shit that RFK Jr and his fans are pushing.

I should be worried about the future, but it's too damn funny.

 

[Variant]

This is precisely the sort of shit that RFK Jr and his fans are pushing.

I should be worried about the future, but it's too damn funny.

I certainly hope they don't start piping 100% pure organic gluten free oxygen into the airliners, I have to go places sometimes.

 

[NOLA Dude]

French fries in oil should surprise no one.

Xanthan gum is a starchy chemical that should bother no one.

Dextrose is glucose, the most basic sugar imaginable.

Citric acid is the acid that fruits make.

The only thing that should remotely bother you about that label is that it contains one preservative.

Those Seed oils are horrible for you.

Why do you need sugar in French fries?

 

[NOLA Dude]

 

[NOLA Dude]

"The food babe's" finest moment is when she said airliners don't provide regular air, because what they pipe into the cabin is at least 50% nitrogen.

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Here we go:

Vani Hari, a.k.a. "The Food Babe," doubles down on the misinformation in her response to the New York Times | ScienceBlogs

To put it mildly, I'm not a big fan of Vani Hari, who has achieved Internet notoriety as a highly misguided "food activist" better known as The Food Babe. As The Food Babe, Hari has improbably become a minor celebrity by attacking food companies over various ingredients their products and...

scienceblogs.com

Who cares about that? Have you ever been wrong about anything? We all have.

Is anything she's saying about the food supply that's not accurate? I guarantee you won't even comment on that and you will stuck to insults and deflections.

Democrats want to keep the food supply toxic because of brain worms!

 

[Revelation]

it's just a neuro toxin, nothing to see here, unless you like diet neuro toxins in your toxic soda ?

this toxin was pushed thru politically and bypassed the fda. thank rumsfeld and commonly called rumsfeld's disease if anyone was paying attention

probably not right?


.

 

[Revelation]

Who cares about that? Have you ever been wrong about anything? We all have.

Is anything she's saying about the food supply that's not accurate? I guarantee you won't even comment on that and you will stuck to insults and deflections.

Democrats want to keep the food supply toxic because of brain worms!

these kind go whistling by the Grave yard.

instead of searching for the truth, they prefer cartoon tv

 

[EnchantedMuggle]

the number is TOO MANY.

if Europe bans it, we should follow suit. why wait for the Toxins to kill X amount of people. ??

How many too many?

10,000?

900?

Four?

 

[EnchantedMuggle]

it's just a neuro toxin, nothing to see here, unless you like diet neuro toxins in your toxic soda ?

this toxin was pushed thru politically and bypassed the fda. thank rumsfeld and commonly called rumsfeld's disease if anyone was paying attention

probably not right?


.

And it comes with a warning.

Just like cigarettes, which also have not been banned.

 

[Revelation]

And it comes with a warning.

Just like cigarettes, which also have not been banned.

the word DIET, is enuf for me. they found that this junk cause more obesity.

 

[EnchantedMuggle]

the word DIET, is enuf for me. they found that this junk cause more obesity.

It has definitely been *correlated* (causation AFAIK has not been found).

The link isn't certain; dieting alone is connected to obesity via several connections (including psychological and physiological, especially hormonal). There is, at the most basic of levels, the fact that a person who is dieting is likely to already be struggling with either a weight issue (ergo is more likely to gain weight than maintain it) or an emotional/mental health issue (can go either way, anorexia or binge/purge, binge alone, etc.). Dieting is restriction; the natural reaction is to binge after a period of dieting, which can be as short as a day.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

I have read the reasoning that the body "doesn't know what to do with" an artificially-created agent. That that agent would somehow be converted to fat hasn't been proven. Actually, the body's most typical reaction to what it perceives as a foreign agent is either to attempt to expel it or to put a lot of fluid around it so that it can't harm the rest of the body. So fluid, yes, potentially; fat, I'm not seeing the scientific support.

Is it good for you? No. That's why it comes with a label specifically stating that. And people make that choice.

Would I personally prefer natural alternatives...yes, and I choose them. Note that I said *choose*.

 

[Revelation]

It has definitely been *correlated* (causation AFAIK has not been found).

The link isn't certain; dieting alone is connected to obesity via several connections (including psychological and physiological, especially hormonal). There is, at the most basic of levels, the fact that a person who is dieting is likely to already be struggling with either a weight issue (ergo is more likely to gain weight than maintain it) or an emotional/mental health issue (can go either way, anorexia or binge/purge, binge alone, etc.). Dieting is restriction; the natural reaction is to binge after a period of dieting, which can be as short as a day.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

I have read the reasoning that the body "doesn't know what to do with" an artificially-created agent. That that agent would somehow be converted to fat hasn't been proven. Actually, the body's most typical reaction to what it perceives as a foreign agent is either to attempt to expel it or to put a lot of fluid around it so that it can't harm the rest of the body. So fluid, yes, potentially; fat, I'm not seeing the scientific support.

Is it good for you? No. That's why it comes with a label specifically stating that. And people make that choice.

Would I personally prefer natural alternatives...yes, and I choose them. Note that I said *choose*.

actually some diet actually is good/nutritional like Stevia. comes from a plant and should be the only diet sugar allow IMHO

usually comes as a blend and great in coffee and non sweetened food like yogurt. good for people who wanna lower blood sugar and carbohydrates.

 

[EnchantedMuggle]

actually some diet actually is good/nutritional like Stevia. comes from a plant and should be the only diet sugar allow IMHO

usually comes as a blend and great in coffee and non sweetened food like yogurt. good for people who wanna lower blood sugar and carbohydrates.

Stevia has a sort of odd taste to me, like licorice, but I could probably get used to it if I used it more often. I know a lot of people who love stevia.

I don't have an issue with carbs, so I can use honey (and a tiny bit of honey is SUPER sweet so I don't have to use much). And a lot of foods are just naturally sweet anyway, or don't need sweetener. Like yogurt. The first time I tasted plain yogurt I went BLEH! Because culturally, I was used to sweet yogurt. Then I tried it plain one day with berries. And I thought...why did I think this tasted bad? Because I was "expecting" sweet, that was why. I even expected the fruit itself to be swimming in syrup.

No other reason, really.