You eat POISON every day.

[Faeanor]

From everything I've heard, high fructose corn syrup does similar things to MSG in large enough quantities. And don't think you aren't getting enough. If you look on the ingredients of almost anything that lists it, corn syrup has about a 90% chance of being there.

And I'm sure Taco Bell has loads of awful crap in it, but I'll be damned if it didn't make a tasty lunch today.

 

[Skalman]

Food.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.

 

[Ignignoct]

Followup: I decided to finish off the jerky.

Who knows what my white trash immune system is capable of adapting to?

 

[RichardEdwards]

We eat poison every day?

I don't. Sitophobia.

*swigs some Dihydrogen Monoxide*

 

[Kodlak]

Alcohol is probably the most consumed poison.

 

[Viridae]

I fail to see why we're so afraid.
Monosodium Glutamate dissolves into Na+ and glutamate anions.
Sodium can be found in anything and the other is a naturally occurring amino acid, one of the building bricks of proteins.
In other words, every cell of your body has these in it. Why aren't we dead yet if it's that dangerous?

Because, as you were pointing out, it's not dangerous. The only reason it is actually criticized is because of it addictive properties. It's used as a flavor enhancer because it stimulates taste buds into thinking something tastes better than it actually does. And since it is put in 2/3 of our food, the real health risks are obesity, heart disease, etc.
Note: I have no source, this is just what a chem. professor told me.

2/3 figure is a bit high - it is used in savoury processed food and in some asian food. It imparts the flavour umami or savouryness, by (as you say) directly stimulating the receptors that react to that flavour.

 

[Ace of Spades]

Good thing I don't like beef jerky.

 

[Sewblon]

I don't understand why anyone who cares about health would eat generic beef jerky.

 

[runtheplacered]

Then you've got the naturally occurring cyanide in banana peel

Why are you eating banana peels? Anyway, so do apple seeds and apricot and peach pits. But, you'd actually have to be trying to eat large quantities of the parts of the fruit nobody would try to eat.

yogurts that promote the bacteria swimming through it like a horde of maggots

Humans would all be dead without bacteria.

DDT in fruit/vegetables/cereals

Did you just wake up from a nap you started in the early 70's?

BSE in Cows

How many cases of BSE in America? 3.

Scrapie in Sheep

Again. How many cases around the world? You make it sound as if it's just normal for Sheep to have Scrapie.

Salmonella in Chickens and Eggs

Somebody already brilliantly pointed out the flaw here, no need to reiterate that.

Rat Poison in Mars Bars

This is just flat out false. Not much else to be said about that.

HN51 in Poultry/Game.

While it's true that Bird flu is a bad deal for those who get it, it's a virus, just like any other virus. You went from talking about food to something comparable to AIDS. Yes, it sucks. Yes, billions of dollars are being spent to treat people and to make sure you aren't infected. You personally, have virtually no chance of even meeting somebody that met somebody that knew somebody that had it.

I don't know. Your post just kind of sucked, I thought. What's the point of trying to scare people with misinformation? That's pretty low. At least be a lobbyist or something and have your motivation be money. There was no motivation here, except to try and sound intelligent.

But all it was, was fear-mongering without the purpose.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

But all it was, was fear-mongering without the purpose.

My, didn't someone get out on the humorless side of bed this morning?

My point was...All of those things have been used as scare stories in the past to stop us eating certain things. I was going to go back to the spaghetti trees, but I thought that was perhaps too far.

Rat poison in Mars Bars was from the early 90's I believe when bars were injected with them. And I 'really' wouldn't be so cock-sure about American Beef and BSE. England was the only country that 'admitted' it had it, a lot of other countries had it and didn't 'fess up.

I still think that those bio-yogurts taste like maggots though.

(BTW; BSE, DDT, and others are still in the food chain...will take a lot longer than a few decades to get rid of their effects.)

 

[sheic99]

This is cursed, that is cursed, scientists say this now could give you cancer even though it saves your life blah blah blah.

Recently I heard on the news that diet drinks are worse your basic soft drinks, apparently some ingrediant starting with 'G' can cause heart failures, now you should be more paranoid than ever!

That's not true. It's the fake sugars and there are a crap load of them. I think Splenda causes kidney failure. Ants won't touch the stuff. On the upside it works as great repellant.

 

[Mr0llivand3r]

guess what, you BREATHE poison every second, too!!!

Oxygen is a toxic gas. what you breathe is 70% nitrogen!!!! if you breathe 100% oxygen you would slip into a coma and die :-D !!!

So who really cares if MSG is a poison!?!?!

 

[Vanilla Gorilla]

Why did you have to tell me that? Now I need to smoke another cigarette because of all the damn stress!

 

[Lukeje]

Spoiler: Lots o text

Then you've got the naturally occurring cyanide in banana peel

Why are you eating banana peels? Anyway, so do apple seeds and apricot and peach pits. But, you'd actually have to be trying to eat large quantities of the parts of the fruit nobody would try to eat.

yogurts that promote the bacteria swimming through it like a horde of maggots

Humans would all be dead without bacteria.

DDT in fruit/vegetables/cereals

Did you just wake up from a nap you started in the early 70's?

BSE in Cows

How many cases of BSE in America? 3.

Scrapie in Sheep

Again. How many cases around the world? You make it sound as if it's just normal for Sheep to have Scrapie.

Salmonella in Chickens and Eggs

Somebody already brilliantly pointed out the flaw here, no need to reiterate that.

Rat Poison in Mars Bars

This is just flat out false. Not much else to be said about that.

HN51 in Poultry/Game.

While it's true that Bird flu is a bad deal for those who get it, it's a virus, just like any other virus. You went from talking about food to something comparable to AIDS. Yes, it sucks. Yes, billions of dollars are being spent to treat people and to make sure you aren't infected. You personally, have virtually no chance of even meeting somebody that met somebody that knew somebody that had it.

I don't know. Your post just kind of sucked, I thought. What's the point of trying to scare people with misinformation? That's pretty low. At least be a lobbyist or something and have your motivation be money. There was no motivation here, except to try and sound intelligent.

But all it was, was fear-mongering without the purpose.

Next you'll be telling me that DHMO is as harmless as water!

 

[GunnerGraye]

Alright so we're afraid of water, food, I'm guessing there's some freaky shit in the air too (pollution and whatnot), most animals, space, asteroids, guns, ect, ect.


Dude, what CAN'T kill you?

 

[Dudemeister]

I've heard CocaCola has all kinds of crap that's really bad for you in it.
Still drink it though.

 

[NeedAUserName]

I once looked at the back of a bottle of fizzy water, and it had loads of Carbon Monoxide. Isn't that poisonous?

 

[Lukeje]

I once looked at the back of a bottle of fizzy water, and it had loads of Carbon Monoxide. Isn't that poisonous?

Carbon Monoxide? What the hell kind of fizzy water were you drinking?

 

[Satansixsix]

I think light Can't kill you, i don't think there is there anything else. I mean a wet peace of paper could get stuck to your face and sufforcate you if your unconsuiuose or have no arms.


Edit. Even lights dangouse to Vampires but there already dead so don't count.