It’s that very ignorance that grifters like The Food Babe and Mike Adams use to sell their message, brand, and quackery. It’s that very same ignorance that antivaxxers use to demonize vaccines as being full of “toxins.”
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Also, that a sign in the window of a shop. Presumably, it’s there to help sell product. That makes it very much worthy of mockery.
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Yes. I was one of the people on the campaign for community water fluoridation in Portland in 2013. I heard over and over again at people’s doors “I don’t want to drink chemicals.” The measure lost. That why we need to fight this misleading slang.
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Excellent point! This brain dead misleading slang has real world effects. It’s important to push back against it.
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When I was in elementary school, my teacher gave us a pamphlet explaining that there was this chemical compound in all the lakes and rivers and everyone was exposed to it. It was all very deliberately scary sounding, and at the end she asked if we wanted to outlaw the chemical.
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Of course it was water. I've seen the same pamphlet circulate on the internet recently. I just wish it had been a required demonstration in all schools. Maybe these people would have grown up with a basic understanding that long scary names do not equal danger.
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Everything we eat has a chemical structure. Someone must have missed junior high school.
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The statement even with colloquial use is incorrect. We are not designed. We do tolerate toxin intake be ause we evolced as omnivores. I mean, how much would life suck if we couldn’t drink our coffee and eat chocolate. We should thank our livers for Methylxanthine metabolism.
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