Yum, yoga mat! List of foods that include this new food group!

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13. Why ridicule?

Well, because there's a lot of Deepak Chopra motherfuckers who set their hair on fire over the notion of "CHEMICALS!!!!!!!!" being in food. As if every chemical in the world were bleach and agent orange rolled into one.

Take for instance the point made on this thread, "It's an INDUSTRIAL chemical!" and "It's banned in the EU!" - well, that must mean it's some sort of awful nasty thing, and it's just our hideously corrupt FDA letting this CHEMICAL!!!!!! run loose in our food supply, causing us to grow hamster-sized boils in our bladders or whatever, right? Less explanation as to why Canada's cool with it, but maybe it's pressure from our FDA! yeah, that works, evil corporatist conspiracy to poison and kill off their customers because... uhm... EEEEVIL CONSPIRACY!

Never asked is WHY the EU and Australia ban its use in food production. It's not because it's a toxic food product... but because in its raw form it's a respiratory irritant, and is potentially hazardous for workers handling the powder, beyond what most food production plants are equipped to prevent (as compared to a foam rubber factory or whatever that almost assuredly has precautions far beyond that needed for azodicarbonamide.)

The ridicule is because people raising the issue so often behave in completely ridiculous ways. There's nothing in the OP about what harm the chemical causes - but it's used in INDUSTRY!!!! so it must be bad for you! You know, like the most common industrial chemical in the word, dihydrogen monoxide! It's in yoga mats fer chrissakes, and you can't eat a yoga mat, so wonderbread IS REALLY A YOGA MAT!

It's the same gullible nonsense as "margarine is just one molecule from being plastic!"