Mikhail Liebenstein Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1291526/U-S-Chicken-McNuggets-contain-Silly-Putty-chemical-calories-fat-Britain.html Again this has clearly been done in the interest of profits and is a cheap means of keeping the slaves fed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat Puppet Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Here's a good and IMO balanced book that looks at industrial food production in the US. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Omnivores-Dilemma-Search-Perfect-Fast-food/dp/0747586837/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278103443&sr=8-1 Also looks at "organic" food and the author has a stab at hunting and gathering as well. Hard to read about the extermination camp like treatment of cattle and then buy beef at a supermarket or restaurant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chugger Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Here's a good and IMO balanced book that looks at industrial food production in the US. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Omnivores-Dilemma-Search-Perfect-Fast-food/dp/0747586837/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278103443&sr=8-1 Also looks at "organic" food and the author has a stab at hunting and gathering as well. Hard to read about the extermination camp like treatment of cattle and then buy beef at a supermarket or restaurant. Looks good, I've ordered a copy. I highly recommend this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meat Puppet Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Looks good, I've ordered a copy. I highly recommend this. Thanks tochi. Will add to my wish list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horridbloke Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 That article reminded me a lot about the problems with Dihydrogen Monoxide. It's nasty stuff: http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImA20SomethingGetMeOutOfHere Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 That article reminded me a lot about the problems with Dihydrogen Monoxide. It's nasty stuff: http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html OMG! That's in our food too! Did you know the salt that McDonnalds put on their chips contains chlorine? Chlorine was used as a chemical warfare agent in the first world war! Those scum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abstra Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Looks good, I've ordered a copy. I highly recommend this. I'll give you a fiver on paypal now for you copy including postage! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no-way Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 That article reminded me a lot about the problems with Dihydrogen Monoxide. It's nasty stuff: http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html sorry, that joke has been killed many times over already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abstra Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 OMG! That's in our food too! Did you know the salt that McDonnalds put on their chips contains chlorine? Chlorine was used as a chemical warfare agent in the first world war! Those scum! Yeah its, gets contaminated when they give it to the knakered humans working in the salt mines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigantic Purple Slug Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Just because a chemical used in food has other industrial applications doesn't make it bad. Although I agree that far to much unnecessary crap is put in our food. There really is no need for most of the colourings etc. I think the government ought to introduce more labelling and quality standards to enable us to easier pick additive free foods if we want to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horridbloke Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 sorry, that joke has been killed many times over already The existence of the DM article referenced by the OP suggests otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wish I could afford one Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 ... Did you know the salt that McDonnalds put on their chips contains chlorine? Chlorine was used as a chemical warfare agent in the first world war! Those scum! I thought all salt contained chlorine. Its chemical symbol I thought was NaCL. That's Sodium and Chlorine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horridbloke Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 I thought all salt contained chlorine. Its chemical symbol I thought was NaCL. That's Sodium and Chlorine. Some fast food places use "lo-salt" Potassium Chloride instead. To be fair you could give either metal the this-is-a-highly-dangerous-reactive-metal-why-are-mcdonalds-trying-to-kill-us treatment, including links to youtube videos of those metals getting plonked in water to prove how dangerous salt must surely be... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeepLurker Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 I thought all salt contained chlorine. Its chemical symbol I thought was NaCL. That's Sodium and Chlorine. Did I just hear the sound of a penny coin impacting the ground? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImA20SomethingGetMeOutOfHere Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 I thought all salt contained chlorine. Its chemical symbol I thought was NaCL. That's Sodium and Chlorine. Entirely correct. I was trying to make the point that it's easy to use a bit of hysteria to make a perfectly innocuous chemical sound utterly horrific. I'd hoped that the DHMO reference would have been a bit of a give away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImA20SomethingGetMeOutOfHere Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Some fast food places use "lo-salt" Potassium Chloride instead. To be fair you could give either metal the this-is-a-highly-dangerous-reactive-metal-why-are-mcdonalds-trying-to-kill-us treatment, including links to youtube videos of those metals getting plonked in water to prove how dangerous salt must surely be... Potassium! My god! They're using chemicals from gunpowder now too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horridbloke Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Potassium! My god! They're using chemicals from gunpowder now too! Damn, I've just bought some bananas and they have Potassium too. Should I inform the bomb squad about my fruit bowl? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abstra Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Damn, I've just bought some bananas and they have Potassium too. Should I inform the bomb squad about my fruit bowl? And the drug squad. Bananas contain serotonin, thats the anti depressant, Prozac or Fluoxitin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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