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• Sister Y commented on Pinkberry's "natural" desserts are made of toxic labratory gunk
  Takuan, I guarantee that if LD-50s were printed on food and drink labels, that information would almost instantaneously find its way into fraternity hazing rituals....
• Antinous / Moderator commented on Pinkberry's "natural" desserts are made of toxic labratory gunk
  Interesting about bananas. We can grow them here, so you can get whatever type you can find at the nursery. Lemons have the same story. In California, you can't buy anything other than Meyer Improved. And don't even ask about planting Phoenix robelinii, Phoenix reclinata or anything that might crosspollinate with Phoenix dactylifera, the date palm. There are no date farms left, but the date laws live on....
• James Ashenhurst commented on Pinkberry's "natural" desserts are made of toxic labratory gunk
  51 : it's pretty clear you can't put a finger on a single ingredient on that list as being toxic. You'd rather deal in generalities than specifics. As for your "food vs. unfood" spiel, a great number of scientists SPECIALIZE in taking food ingredients in "unnatural concentrations" (your phrase) and feeding them to animals, looking for signs of toxicity. In order for food additives to be approved, they have to pass rigorous standards for toxicity from the FDA. Propylene glycol, to take one example, has been fed to rats at up to 5% of total feed weight without adverse effects,...
• Takuan commented on Pinkberry's "natural" desserts are made of toxic labratory gunk
  all moot, look at the news, the food price hysteria and hoarding is turning into a self-fulfilling prophesy and soon enough we'll all be fighting over butter and dirt cakes...
• Antinous / Moderator commented on Pinkberry's "natural" desserts are made of toxic labratory gunk
  I think your "food vs. unfood" argument is totally full of crap. Well, enjoy your long slide into ill health then. Food science has been a complete failure to date, and we are in far worse health than we were fifty years ago when people still ate real food. Maybe you should get your head out of the test tube and look around you. You think that you represent science, but frankly, you sound more like a phrenologist desperately clinging to an outdated vision of how things work....