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flip wrote:Agreed, those are the only true sciences.

http://xkcd.com/435/

I've noticed that the only altruism most of you exhibit is only in your attempts to discredit others . I should have said they were the backbone of all other sciences. The trunk from which all others branch off. I guess now I'm a young -earth creationist and don't believe in evolution of animals because God knows, I've said that a million times before. One-trackers!

tunnelcat wrote:...it's been consumed for thousands of years, so it's got a track record of safety for consumption in food.

Well, so far no one has died from Azodicarbonamide and it's been ingested repeatedly for years by millions of people. I would say it's safe in its current usage. At this point there is just as good a chance of us finding out some part of baking soda contributes to cancers.

Not that I want to sound like a broken record, but it is important to point out once again that everything humans eat has been tampered with and that changing things in the lab only adds precision to those changes, which is good. There is a chance, in the future, we will know nutrition and the body so well that synthetic food will be far superior to what nature gives us -- so much so that you could easily live hundreds of years eating it instead of decades on our current diet. Of course, things like molecular gastronomy seem to have a long way to go before they catch on, but maybe not so much. I know a lot of supremely healthy people who eat a lot of protein shakes and other food created in labs. I also know a lot of organic food slaves who are listless and appear to have never-ending health problems (which they keep blaming on food they don't even eat anymore). Time will tell, but I strongly suspect in 1000 years "farming" will be ancient history.

callmeslick wrote:yeah, cholesterol is the building block of two of the key neurotransmitters. Just tweaking y'all a bit, as we've gotten down to 'what I can't eat now that I'm an old person' in this thread, coupled with everyone realizing what I've known all along(thanks to my choice of study and profession)....life comes down to a combination of chemistry and physics.

ANYTHING in excess can be bad, even water. So here's what I have to say. When someone thinks that they know everything, that's when they stop learning.