Aneirin
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Joined: 3/18/2006 From: Tamaris Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: thornhappy Oil's never been tested for heavy metals; there was a proposal to do that back in 2004 but it looks like it didn't go anywhere. It's tested for a variety of organic chemicals and sulfur. quote:
ORIGINAL: Termyn8or And mercury ? They put it in your kids, WHAT THE FUCK. It's poisonous and must be watched but they routinely pump a hundred times the "safe" level into every baby born in this country ? Term, this is bogus. It never was "a 100 times the safe level", and thimerosal's long been gone from vaccines. Since it was eliminated, there's been no decrease in autism, but increases in childhood diseases from folks that don't vaccinate their kids. Flouridation isn't toxic. In very high amounts you can get tooth discoloration, and I'd bet you couldn't find any cases of that since the '60s. The claim about toxicity is once of the oldest of the John Birch conspiracy theories. Neither Coke nor Pepsi reveal their proprietary flavorings, but sweeteners have been listed since the labeling regulations came out. I've been reading labels since they were mandated (17 years ago). It wasn't just sweeteners, it was calories, protein, fat, hydrolyzed wheat, etc. Mercury was a revolutionary cure for syphilis when it came along. It was the first cure ever, and saved lives believe it or not. Shellfish can concentrate toxins, since they are filter feeders and bottom dwellers. That is why when I go foraging for free food off the coastline no matter what people say how clean the Sound is, no way will I eat those limpets, I go around the corner for those outside of the breakwater where the sea is a bit rougher and coming uninterrupted from the Atlantic The sound has rivers running into it, on those rivers is industry and sewerage plants, not forgetting of course a refitting yard for nuclear submarines. But then, perhaps foraging for limpets is not worth the trouble, for they are just like eating pencil erasers dipped in fish sauce.
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Everything we are is the result of what we have thought, the mind is everything, what we think, we become - Guatama Buddha Conservatism is distrust of people tempered by fear - William Gladstone
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