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Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

I’m always reminded that several natural flavours, like arsenic and water hemlock plants, are so, so natural and organic even. And yet somehow that has nothing to do with “safe for consumption” or edibility.

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Sally Dane's avatar

haha! true! Excellent point.

Also amusing (to me, anyhow) is that Benzene is one of the major chemical compounds studied in “Organic Chemistry” (which I studied in college as a Pre-Med Biology major).

The food industry adopting “Organic” as a word to signify “healthy and natural” is continually laughable. Organic just refers to hydrocarbons (hydrogen and carbon compounds) in various structures, most of which are flammable, toxic, and/or poisonous in some way.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene

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Tim Ebl 🇨🇦's avatar

I wotk with toxic organic chemicals all the time myself. Industrial sites have all kinds of fun organic liquids.

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Jackieone's avatar

It’s a huge problem. Trying to find any packaged food without natural garbage is impossible.

I’m not a cook, I don’t have the patience, but I’m being forced to learn because even the simple stuff, like jam, is loaded with chemicals.

So, (patting myself on the back), I’ve made my first strawberry jam with quite reduced sugar and it tastes good enough that I don’t have to buy this at the store ever again.

I guess there’s worse ways to spend the day, than in the kitchen.

But my music/video skills are foundering for lack of time in the studio. 😳

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Sally Dane's avatar

I love hearing these kinds of stories. More people are taking matters (their food!) into their own hands because they've had enough of being manipulated to buy products that are unhealthy. Commercial food producers are doing this on purpose so that we buy more of their products!

Remain vigilant: taking the time to cook your own food from basic ingredients will pay dividends in your lifestyle and lifespan!

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Jackieone's avatar

Well, now that I’ve started, and since becoming a (literally) fanatic label inspector, I cannot go back.

Not even a little bit.

My hubby, unfortunately, brings what he thinks is ok “food” into the house, saying “you don’t have to eat it!”

I take it back to the store.

It’s an issue.

We shall overcome.

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Sally Dane's avatar

YES YES YES! I love this!!!

Eventually, after reading all of the labels all of the time you look at food in a different light. It's just GOO IN A BOX with a pretty label that *other* people buy because they don't know better (they don't read the labels).

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Vicki James's avatar

Ha! We're on a similar topic today. I'm going to link this over on my Processed Foods article. https://open.substack.com/pub/healthyexperiments/p/the-truth-about-processed-foods-and

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