| ▲ | ExoticPearTree 8 hours ago |
| Chemicals. That’s what they mean by real ingredients: no chemicals. Like orange juice: can be from a chemical powder or real oranges. |
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| ▲ | snowwrestler 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| This is a good example of how easy it is to fool people if they don’t have their own understanding of how things work. Highlighting this has been a priority in my parenting. My child is having a great time trying to scare friends about the dangers of the chemical dihydrogen monoxide, which is found in a surprisingly large number of manufactured foods. |
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| ▲ | ExoticPearTree 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Right. And wonder bread is awesome for your health. | | |
| ▲ | snowwrestler 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Wonder Bread is horrible for your health, but it’s not because of “chemicals.” Orange juice is also bad for your health BTW! | |
| ▲ | reaperducer 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Asbestos is all natural. | | | |
| ▲ | array_key_first 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Nobody said it was. But it's not bad because of chemicals, because all bread is created with chemicals. As for natural versus artificial - that's also bullshit. There's many natural ingredients that are poison, and many artificial ones that are good for you. I mean, if I eat home made fried chicken everyday, you can bet your ass I'm not gonna live very long. |
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| ▲ | wmeredith 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| But that's total nonsense. Everything in our physical world (including water, air, food, and human bodies) is made of chemicals. They can be naturally occurring or artificially manufactured. |
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| ▲ | ExoticPearTree 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | You can nitpick and be pedantic about the wording I used, but if you equate artificial flavors or ingredients with natural ones… | | |
| ▲ | ben-schaaf an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Could you describe the difference between the artificial flavour vanilin made in a lab, and the natural flavour vanilin extracted from a vanilla bean? | |
| ▲ | ryandrake 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Is it really pedantic? Everything is ultimately a chemical compound. H2O is a chemical. Where do you draw the line between "chemicals" and "not chemicals"? Is it more about what you can find in nature? You can find acetone in nature. | | |
| ▲ | GuinansEyebrows an hour ago | parent [-] | | yeah, this is kind of a definitional example of pedantry. you probably understand what people are trying to say when they talk about "chemicals" but instead of engaging with the actual conversation, you spin off a metanarrative to pick apart the word choice as if that's directly relevant to the point they're trying to discuss. not trying to pick on you specifically, because sure everything's a chemical, and i don't really care to fight about that, but you asked :) | | |
| ▲ | ryandrake an hour ago | parent [-] | | "Chemical" is just a really, really vague and poor word choice. I honestly don't understand what people are trying to say when they use it. Food and chemistry are inextricably intertwined. You can't even talk about food without talking about all of the various components food is made up of. Not a single food item out there isn't made up of chemicals. Some found in nature, some created in a lab or factory process. Some healthy, some not. Some with long names, some with short names. Some have effects on food taste, longevity, appearance. Some are inert. It's really a meaningless word to use in the context of one's food. | | |
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