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You Are What You Eat
- 1. You Are What You Eat
- 2. Would you eat monosodium glutamate? You do if you eat Chef Boyardee ravioli. Would you eat dimethylpolysiloxane? You do if you eat Jello. Would you eat calcium silicate? You do if you eat Top Ramen noodles.
- 3. Food additives such as salt, vinegar, and sulfur dioxide have been used for centuries to enhance and preserve food. With the creation of processed foods the numbers of food additives, both natural and synthetic, has soared. There are over 2800 food additives approved for use today. You eat almost 200 pounds of food additives every year. Food additives are substances that are added to food to preserve it, enhance its taste, and improve its appearance.
- 4. Do you want to? Do you have a choice?
- 5. Would (or should) you eat food that has been exposed to nuclear radiation? If you eat mangoes, papaya, and strawberries you might be. If you eat dried herbs and spices you might be. If you eat ground meat you might be.
- 6. Any food with this radura symbol has been treated with radiation to destroy bacteria, inhibit sprouting, or increase its shelf life.
- 7. What does this mean to you?
- 8. Should animals be injected with hormones to grow bigger, faster so we have more food? They are.
- 9. What does it do to the animal… What does it do to us…
- 10. Riddle me this: What do you get when you cross rice with daffodils and soil bacteria? Golden rice. It’s a genetically modified rice that is high in vitamin A and its use is supposed to alleviate malnutrition in the third world.
- 11. Will creating genetically modified superfoods destroy the Earth’s biodiversity? Just because we can… does that mean we should… If they’re so safe, why has Europe banned them?
- 12. Would you rather eat an apple with a cosmetic defect or maybe a worm or would you rather eat an apple covered in kaolin, phosmet, mancozeb, methyl bromide, diazinon, norflurazon, chloropicrin, or 1,3 di-chloropropene residue?
- 14. Is organic food better for your health? How do pesticides affect our food?
- 15. You Are What You Eat Do you really want to be?