[quote=CA renter]
Really? You think that today’s foods have no more added/synthetic chemicals in them than foods from 100+ years ago? No higher concentrations of chemicals that are considered toxic or possibly carcinogenic?
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I didn’t say that. I said that the “vast majority of added chemicals are already in foods we eat”. If manufacturers take sugar from a beet and put it in soda, we’re just changing the mix. All “synthetic” chemicals are exactly the same as their naturally occurring counterparts. The two most toxic to human chemicals that have ever been identified are “natural”. (botulinum and tetanospasmin) Only one man made toxin has ever been developed that’s 1 millionth as toxic.
Some concentrations have changed. In the US population, our diets ARE a problem. But it’s not the natural/synthetic that’s the problem.
(And just exactly who decided what was “intended” to be eaten? Somebody built our bodies and decided that we should be sucking milk from a cows teat?)
