I'm going to sniff some glue.
Everything can kill you.
But in the end, only one thing does.
Umpires?
Booing
Not sure why people are so skeptical. Historically, there have been numerous substances that we've produced and broadly exposed to ourselves and our environment, and later found to be harmful and subsequently banned.
There have been many, many more that have been touted as harmful that are anything but.
What get's my goat though is that half these "chemicals" are in everyday natural foodstuffs, and were there long before humans were able to isolate and exploit them. But once we identify the chemical and give it a name, all of a sudden it becomes a problem. All of a sudden the C word gets bandied about.
And don't get me started on the terminology used by the scare mongers. My personal favourite is when they claim something is an "industrial solvent", although one shouldn't look past other gems such as "drain cleaner" or "found in rat poison".
The anti-chemical crowd claiming an inability to pronounce a chemicals name is indicative of it's harm are no better than the beauty industry using obscure names for every-day ingredients to sound more impressive.
Yes, there are real problems. The techniques and scare mongering used by these activists is not bringing us any closer to solving it though. FFS, how many people out there still think aluminium cookware is responsible for Alzheimers? These people treat their own ignorance as a virtue while proclaiming the ignorance of everyone else. They **** me right up the wall.
Ignorance is bliss, huh?
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
Really interesting stuff:
Here is the recipe for coke zero taken from the coke zero movement website:
Carbonated water
Colour (150d) - aka "Sulphite Ammonia Caramel"
Food acid 338 - aka "Phosphoric Acid" (Also used for rust removal!)
Food acid 331 - aka "Sodium Citrates" (Also used in photography and as an anticoagulant of blood stored for transfusion!)
Flavour
Sweetener 951 - aka "Asapartame" (According to the US FDA, "the [National Cancer Institute] currently is studying aspartame and other dietary factors as part of a larger study of adult brain cancer." You might want to wait for the results before you drink it. Also, avoid this one if you'remoody!)
Sweetener 950 - aka "Acesulfame Potassium" (Looking for reasons to avoid this sweetener?Look no further...)
Preservative 211 - aka "Sodium Benzoate" (Undiluted this stuff isn't too bad... Just don't let it touch your skin!)
Caffeineerr gross. I'm not going to use coke zero as an after chain smoking throat soother anymore. In fact I'm only drinking bear from now on. the water is probably full of chemicals.
Aspartame - no credible evidence suggesting that at current usages it is harmful, despite meny many studies
As for saying products are used for non food reasons as well. So what? There's a whole list of inorganic substances that our bodies NEED. Iron, Zinc, Selenium, Copper etc.
I particularly love the one that says you shouldn't have it because it's used in blood products. Um, if it's safe to INJECT it's safe to INGEST.
- megz
Aspartame - no credible evidence suggesting that at current usages it is harmful, despite meny many studies
err gross. I'm not going to use coke zero as an after chain smoking throat soother anymore. In fact I'm only drinking bear from now on. the water is probably full of chemicals.
Really interesting stuff:
Here is the recipe for coke zero taken from the coke zero movement website:
Carbonated water
Colour (150d)[font='Lucida Grande'] - [/font]aka[font='Lucida Grande'] "[/font]Sulphite Ammonia Caramel[font='Lucida Grande']"[/font]
Food acid 338[font='Lucida Grande'] - [/font]aka[font='Lucida Grande'] "[/font]Phosphoric Acid[font='Lucida Grande']" (Also used for rust removal!)[/font]
Food acid 331[font='Lucida Grande'] - [/font]aka[font='Lucida Grande'] "[/font]Sodium Citrates[font='Lucida Grande']" (Also used in photography and as an anticoagulant of blood stored for transfusion!)[/font]
Flavour
Sweetener 951[font='Lucida Grande'] - [/font]aka[font='Lucida Grande'] "[/font]Asapartame[font='Lucida Grande']" (According to the US [/font]FDA[font='Lucida Grande'], "the [National Cancer Institute] currently is studying aspartame and other dietary factors as part of a larger study of adult brain cancer." You might want to wait for the results before you drink it. Also, avoid this one if you're[/font]moody[font='Lucida Grande']!)[/font]
Sweetener 950[font='Lucida Grande'] - [/font]aka[font='Lucida Grande'] "[/font]Acesulfame Potassium[font='Lucida Grande']" (Looking for reasons to avoid this sweetener?[/font]Look no further[font='Lucida Grande']...)[/font]
Preservative 211[font='Lucida Grande'] - [/font]aka[font='Lucida Grande'] "[/font]Sodium Benzoate[font='Lucida Grande']" (Undiluted this stuff isn't too bad... [/font]Just don't let it touch your skin![font='Lucida Grande'])[/font]
Caffeine
As for saying products are used for non food reasons as well. So what? There's a whole list of inorganic substances that our bodies NEED. Iron, Zinc, Selenium, Copper etc.
I particularly love the one that says you shouldn't have it because it's used in blood products. Um, if it's safe to INJECT it's safe to INGEST.
- megz
DRUG DUNGEON.
More recently there has been talk of a new “miracle cleanse” that the type of people who hate “unnatural foods” are swearing by. Its Diatomaceous Earth and its also used as a pool filter and bug killer. Just a bit of reverse for you all 
Well, ■■■■ off back to the stone age if it's a problem for you Mr author.
Write to your member of parliament!
I hear they are putting it in Children's Fluoride now, unbelievable.
And what, may I ask, is Children's Flouride?
Not sure why people are so skeptical. Historically, there have been numerous substances that we've produced and broadly exposed to ourselves and our environment, and later found to be harmful and subsequently banned.
AOD?
LEL.And what, may I ask, is Children's Flouride?I hear they are putting it in Children's Fluoride now, unbelievable.
Read the link, think about it.