Is this true or a sick joke?
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It seems there is a degree of truth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alimentarius#Controversy
Although i wouldnt get your knickers in a twist just yet. If this ever gets anywhere i'll imagine there will be a public outcry.
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What ever happened to "an apple a day"?
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@unknownuser said:
What ever happened to "an apple a day"?
Three cups of tea a day provides you with more anti-oxidants than an apple.
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It's the "Apple's skin" the danger : just 27 pesticides inside for a normal apple: so you must peel the apples
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Organic apples all the way
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@unknownuser said:
It makes any natural food and nutrition illegal by law.
Well that's not quite what it says. It says they want to stop so-called natural foods from being sold as medicinal or therapeutic items without valid claims. Simply because something is 'natural' does not mean it is healthy or beneficial.
Arsenic is natural - there's a lot of it in the water in the region where I live. It's deadly.
Botulism is natural. It's deadly.
Belladonna is deadly at some levels and helpful at others.
Many ayurvedic traditional 'medicines' have large amounts of mercury. It's deadly.
Synthetically made vitamin C is exactly the same as 'natural' vitamin C.@unknownuser said:
I did see a video from a woman from this Bauman College or something and she says that if this law is passed people will die of starvation and preventable deceases. She says 3 billion, if I'm correct that's half of the world's population.
Total and utter nonsense.
We have this thing called 'science'. It's proven rather good at making the world a better place when applied properly. Even if one were to utterly cynical about the motivation of Big Pharma (oooh, scary) what possible motivation could they have to push for laws that would reduce their customer base by half? Sheesh. -
Natural foods....
Every day millions of children are exposed to a substance containing these chemicals...
carotene
anthocyanin
tangeretin
polygalacturonic acid
sucrose
fructose
arginine
choline
asparagine
octyl alcohol
amy alcohol
hesperidin
2-hydroxypropane
tri-carboxylic acid
oxalic acid
methanol
formaldehyde
tyramine
synephrine
dihydrogen monoxide
3-keto-1-gulonolactone
d-limonene
decylaldehydewhat is it?
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@remus said:
Organic apples all the way
All apples are organic - so are all plants, animals and plastics.
(I get irritated by the 'organic' buzzword
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@unknownuser said:
noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
so if your apples are sprayed with pesticide, as they often are, they arent organic.
Interesting point about the plastic though, i've never thought of it like that.
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@rodentpete said:
@remus said:
Organic apples all the way
All apples are organic - so are all plants, animals and plastics.
(I get irritated by the 'organic' buzzword )You're mixing chemistry and farming terminology.
Organic chemistry is anything involving carbon compounds, as noted above.
Organic farming is a practical and philosophical methodology of food production that used to include caring for the long term health of the land, local production to reduce the transport time of foodstuffs as well as the no synthetic pesticides and fertilisers approach. Ever since big farming companies got involved the first few bits of the philosophy seem to have been ignored by most of the market.
I don't go for the woo part of organic food but I certainly approve of the "care for your land's long term health" bit. And I'm quite certain that locally produced food will usually be better than that transported across huge distances and stored for long periods. Luckily for me I have farm just a mile down the road from which I can get almost all my veg. There really isn't anything better tasting than veg that was cut just half an hour ago. As long as you don't hear the screams of the carrots in your sleep..
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