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Originally Posted by bithead
The poll is a trick.
The word "chemical" is generally used to describe a man-made substance, but that's technically incorrect. (Kind of like saying a tissue is a Kleenex.) Everything is a chemical, including so-called "natural" or organic ingredients. Pure water is a chemical compound: H20
Our food supply definitely contains man-made substances.
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But
man-made VS.
natural VS.
processed are also meaningless descriptions. Each of those categories can have unhealthy and even poisonous foods. That's why I'm so frustrated when I hear those words to describe things. It's a meaningless description.
It's like saying
corporations are evil. Guess what? Keith and The Girl, LLC is a corporation. That local mom & pop coffee shop? They're a corporation too. Pretty much all professional organizations are incorporated.
I think I know what people are
trying to say when they use the words processed and corporations but I believe that conversations barely scratch the surface when only those words are used.
If you want to talk about food that's bad, don't say "
it has chemicals", talk about which chemicals it has in it. For instance, is "trans fat" what you're concerned about? Does it have too much sugar? Which kind of sugar?
If you want to talk about corporations that are evil, talk about what they do that is evil. Are they promoting legislation that violates human rights? Do they break the law in some way? Are they doing something extremely unethical that should be banned with new laws?
Explain yo self.