Re: [CH] Bumblebee Tuna and extracts...

=Mark (mstevens@exit109.com)
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:49:32 -0400 

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:48:37 -0700 (PDT), Tina Brooks wrote
> Honestly Mark, you don't think that the crap that we've been 
> allowing food companies to put into the food we eat might have 
> anything to do with the health crises affecting our countries? 
> Obesity, diabetes, autism, asthma -- God knows what else.
> 
I don't blame food companies for those maladies, I blame the consumer who
insists on cramming more and more of it into their faces, then look for ways
to lose the fat without reducing their consumption or actually getting off
their flabby buts and exercising.


> I love my caffeine... it's nice and natural and whatever it does to 
> the nervous system just gives you a nice wake up jolt first thing in 
> the morning... so what if it's addictive, but I prefer it to be 
> organic and fair trade certified because I care about what I'm 
> putting in my body. 

Caffeine is not organic, it's an alkaloid like cocaine.

>I don't eat white sugar, if I can help it 
> because it comes from beets and as such if it were raw, would be 
> pink, but they bleach it. 

Caffeine is white.  Pure sugar is white.  Sugar that is any other color is
such because it has other "stuff" in it (think contaminants).


>Is it too much to ask to not put "fake 
> heat" into my food? Especially when there are so many nice sweet 
> lovely peppers with great flavours that would work just as well.

I prefer the peppers too, but I'm not gonna get bent out of shape over
extracts.  Caffeine is caffeine, sugar is sugar and capsaicin is capsaicin.


> 
> Come to think of it, what about the pesticides and herbicides and 
> other unknown but (God forbid) FDA approved chemicals they spray on 
> peppers before they process them, then they use some hideous 
> chemical to compound those chemicals into something the FDA lets 
> them call a "natural flavour" or "paprika" and pump that into our 
> food as well.

Meanwhile life expectancy in the western world has continued an unabated rise
for over 100 years.  I guess those preservatives are doing their jobs!

The politically motivated and unscientific ban on DDT has directly resulted in
the deaths of 20 to 30 million people.

> 
> I can't bring myself to eat non-organic apples, 

Me either.  I can't stand the metallic or mineral ones.

>I'm not about to eat 
> extracts... yuck!
> 
> Give me nice fresh clean chillies without the 341 FDA approved 
> chemicals or give me death!
> 
> Sorry Patrick Henry!
> 
> =====
> 
> Tina Brooks
> VP Marketing, Peppermaster Hot Sauces <a rel="nofollow" 
> target="_blank" href="http://www.peppermaster.com">www.peppermaster.com
> </a>Brooks Pepperfire Foods Inc. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://www.pepperfire.ca">www.pepperfire.ca</a>
> 
> Phone: (514) 393-3430
> 26 St. Jean Baptiste, East
> Rigaud, Quebec, Canada
> J0P 1P0
> 
> Network with me on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" 
> href="http://www.gourmetbusinessforum.com/">www.gourmetbusinessforum.com</a>
-- The premier online business community for food professionals
> 
> <em><font color="#ff0000">Many persons have a wrong idea of what 
> constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-
> gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.</font> <font 
> color="#4040ff">Helen Keller</font></em>
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: =Mark <mstevens@exit109.com>
> To: Tina Brooks <shoestring_louise@yahoo.com>; Jim Graham 
> <spooky130@cox.net>; chile Heads <chile-heads@globalgarden.com> 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:09:31 PM Subject: Re: [CH] 
> Bumblebee Tuna and extracts...
> 
> Current media strategy requires that the public be kept in a 
> constant state of fear and dread.  That's how the money is made.
> 
> Once the bleating about the pending ice age got thin in the 70s 
> there were killer bees and exploding nuclear reactors on the 
> horizon.  When that got old and didn't elicit the requisite fright 
> there was toxic waste that would do us in.  This decade when the 
> endless nattering about the millions of poor folks whose brains were 
> being eaten by pandemic mad cow disease didn't materialize, we got 
> global warming.
> 
> Western civilization currently has at their beck and whim the 
> largest quantity and best quality food the world has ever seen.  The 
> fact that we can sit back and ponder the minutiae of detail on a 
> product label says a lot (Try that a hundred years ago).
> 
> Folks in developing countries who on a daily basis struggle for 
> potable water and edible food would be amused by the whole concept 
> if they weren't preoccupied with dysentery and starvation.
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:49:59 -0700 (PDT), Tina Brooks wrote
> > Maybe I'm crazy, maybe I'm a little anal retentive about what is in 
> > the food I'm eating, but I really think stuff likes this is horrific.
> > 
> > =====
> > 
> > Tina Brooks
> > VP Marketing, Peppermaster Hot Sauces <a rel="nofollow" 
> > target="_blank" href="http://www.peppermaster.com">www.peppermaster.com
> > </a>Brooks Pepperfire Foods Inc. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
> href="http://www.pepperfire.ca">www.pepperfire.ca</a>
> > 
> > Phone: (514) 393-3430
> > 26 St. Jean Baptiste, East
> > Rigaud, Quebec, Canada
> > J0P 1P0
> > 
> > Network with me on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" 
> > href="http://www.gourmetbusinessforum.com/">www.gourmetbusinessforum.com</a>
> -- The premier online business community for food professionals
> > 
> > <em><font color="#ff0000">Many persons have a wrong idea of what 
> > constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-
> > gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.</font> <font 
> > color="#4040ff">Helen Keller</font></em>
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Jim Graham <spooky130@cox.net>
> > To: chile Heads <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 2:39:42 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CH] Bumblebee Tuna and extracts...
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:12:03PM -0400, =Mark wrote:
> > > It has been demonstrated that high concentrations of dihydrogen oxide
> > 
> > (also known as hydrogen hydroxide)
> > 
> > > can cause life threatening reactions in test animals...   :-)
> > 
> > Also, when inhaled in its liquid form, it is deadly to humans.
> > 
> > Later,
> >    --jim
> > 
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> =Mark
> 
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