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| Authored by: Wol on Thursday, January 03 2013 @ 06:38 PM EST |
For the furriners, E-numbers are codes to indicate additives to foods in Europe
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Certainly we've been targeted here with a lot of propaganda to believe that if
there's an e-number on the packaging, the food contains artificial additives and
is bad. The snag with this, is that a fair few *natural* additives (such as
cochineal, caremalised sugar, etc) have been allocated e-numbers too.
Personally, my belief is that we tend to get far too few essential vitamins and
minerals in our food nowadays, for two reasons. Firstly, intensive breeding has
reduced the nutritional content (modern varieties are often bland, quite
possibly because it's the trace elements that give them their flavour!), and
secondly because we are now sedentary, we eat far less. So it's a double whammy
- we eat less and what we do eat contains less of the necessaries.
Which is why I *try* to eat a fair bit (no supplements) and keep my weight down
with exercise. I don't succeed that well :-(
Cheers,
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, January 03 2013 @ 06:46 PM EST |
When I'm speaking of scientists relative to Genetics:
I correct the
context to being Business associated scientists relative to Genetics!
I
have no problem with scientists exploring genetics - splicing and dicing,
observing, etc - in a Lab setting. A Lab setting that is not connected to
profit generation.
My problem is when a business mounts up around that
Lab and has a focus of turning what is being researched into profit.
Far
too often in human history have Business minds deliberatly put human life too
easily at risk in order to make profit.
Recent examples (relative to
thousands of years of human knowledge surrounding farming):
Tobaco companies
and their efforts to fend off the actual health effects of their products as
well as their deliberate desire to target children with their
adds!
Ford Motor Company when the company decided the cost to recall
all the pintos and replace the unit that needed replaced was more then the cost
of the Lawsuits they were likely to receive due to actual rear-end collisions
that caused the vehicle to explode.
Of course - my examples are not limited
to those. There's many, many reasons why I should trust human knowledge built
around a set where there's no immediate financial incentive over that claimed
where there is an immediate financial incentive.
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