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kartski

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28. Crooks and Liars had a good link this moring

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Sat Jun 22, 2013, 01:00 PM

Jun 2013

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/06/21/eight_toxic_foods_a_little_chemical_education.php

A Chemists take on the Article as being a little to shallow " The BuzzFeed article claims that it's linked to "major organ system damage, birth defects, growth problems, schizophrenia, and hearing loss", and sends readers to this WebMD article. But if you go there, you'll find that the only medical problems known from BVO come from two cases of people who had been consuming, over a long period, 4 to 8 liters of BVO-containing soda per day, and did indeed have reactions to all the excess bromine-containing compounds in their system."

He doesn't push processed food, just the accuracy of the info given.

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List: American Processed Foods banned in other nations because of dangerous chemicals [View all] Ichingcarpenter Jun 2013 OP

WOW! WovenGems Jun 2013 #1

I quit buying boxed meals Puzzledtraveller Jun 2013 #2

Even if I couldn't cook, I'd eat what I could every day before I'd eat that stuff..n/t monmouth3 Jun 2013 #3

While I am under no delusion that procesed American food Kelvin Mace Jun 2013 #4

I gave you TWO OTHER LINKS Ichingcarpenter Jun 2013 #5

I appreciate your posting the article, this was NOT a dig at you, just an personal observation. Kelvin Mace Jun 2013 #18

they dont allow feeding chicken shit to cows in europe, www.fda.gov site good enough for you? Monkie Jun 2013 #6

pink slime and other mechanically separated "meat" = banned in the EU Monkie Jun 2013 #7

Here's a good source NJCher Jun 2013 #8

Excellent post, thank you. It's astounding to see how people will defend here what other sabrina 1 Jun 2013 #10

Basically, if it's advertised, it's probably not all that healthy for us. SoCalDem Jun 2013 #31

thank goddess I learned to cook at a very young age, and have been doing it ever since. niyad Jun 2013 #9

Just learned that some American KT2000 Jun 2013 #11

You forgot to mention skepticscott Jun 2013 #12

No, salt doesn't "contain" chlorine. That isn't how NaCl works. WinkyDink Jun 2013 #14

Thanks, I know... skepticscott Jun 2013 #21

And here are some British foods that are banned in the US. MineralMan Jun 2013 #13

Because they're "offal"! :-) WinkyDink Jun 2013 #15

50 points to your house. MineralMan Jun 2013 #16

mmmmmmmm fray bentos pies, yummy, btw canned haggis sucks loli phabay Jun 2013 #23

Good info, but bad article thesquanderer Jun 2013 #17

Facepalm clean up in GD! GoneOffShore Jun 2013 #19

Did you miss my point? thesquanderer Jun 2013 #20

Oh my! Thanks for the list! BlueToTheBone Jun 2013 #22

easy tip is to just cruise the outer aisles when shopping loli phabay Jun 2013 #24

Mine too...no ponds BlueToTheBone Jun 2013 #25

we do our own bread, get flour from a local miller, eggs and milk as well loli phabay Jun 2013 #26

Most of these products also contain high levels of DHMO which is used as an industrial solvent Major Nikon Jun 2013 #27

Crooks and Liars had a good link this moring kartski Jun 2013 #28

I read that article too. Archae Jun 2013 #30

I used to drink mt dew all the time. now i switched to regular coca cola darkangel218 Jun 2013 #29

We stopped buying the boxed-type meals quite some time ago. It was an uphill bike man Jun 2013 #32

all our food is poison datasuspect Jun 2013 #33