Comments on: OK, can we stop blaming vaccines yet? http://textiplication.com/2009/01/27/ok-can-we-stop-blaming-vaccines-yet/ Skott Klebe's blog - reading, writing, music. Thu, 26 May 2011 12:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: skottk http://textiplication.com/2009/01/27/ok-can-we-stop-blaming-vaccines-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-34996 skottk Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:20:20 +0000 http://textiplication.com/2009/01/27/ok-can-we-stop-blaming-vaccines-yet/#comment-34996 Thanks for stopping by!<br>On one level, I am completely prepared to believe what you say. I wrote<br>this more out of my long-time frustration with anti-vaccine idiocy than out<br>of any specific concern with mercury in HFCS.<br>However, I have to say - finding out that HFCS has measurable mercury is<br>kind of like finding out that some Ford Excursions are upholstered with baby<br>seal skins. We're talking about a high-calorie artificial sweetener made<br>with industrial chemical processes that's only economical because of<br>pointless and expensive agricultural subsidies, incidentally impoverishing<br>tropical island economies that would otherwise be able to sell us the cane<br>sugar that we'd really prefer.<br>As a sensible skeptic, you're probably aware of the corrosive and distorting<br>effects of agricultural subsidies that create artificially low prices for<br>commodities like corn.<br>Your particular skepticism of hippies probably inclines you against using<br>taxpayer dollars as welfare for specific industries and in favor of the<br>power of the market to determine what crops are grown and how they're<br>prepared, cooked, consumed, cracked with caustic chemicals, and contaminated<br>with heavy metals.<br>Your disdain for fluff and ideology probably leaves you nervous, however at<br>the prospect of the Schumpetrian creative distruction that would inevitably<br>accompany the elimination of agricultural subsidies. Many ideologues will<br>hasten to reassure you, though, that it's the kind of pain you forget.<br><br>SK Thanks for stopping by!
On one level, I am completely prepared to believe what you say. I wrote
this more out of my long-time frustration with anti-vaccine idiocy than out
of any specific concern with mercury in HFCS.
However, I have to say – finding out that HFCS has measurable mercury is
kind of like finding out that some Ford Excursions are upholstered with baby
seal skins. We're talking about a high-calorie artificial sweetener made
with industrial chemical processes that's only economical because of
pointless and expensive agricultural subsidies, incidentally impoverishing
tropical island economies that would otherwise be able to sell us the cane
sugar that we'd really prefer.
As a sensible skeptic, you're probably aware of the corrosive and distorting
effects of agricultural subsidies that create artificially low prices for
commodities like corn.
Your particular skepticism of hippies probably inclines you against using
taxpayer dollars as welfare for specific industries and in favor of the
power of the market to determine what crops are grown and how they're
prepared, cooked, consumed, cracked with caustic chemicals, and contaminated
with heavy metals.
Your disdain for fluff and ideology probably leaves you nervous, however at
the prospect of the Schumpetrian creative distruction that would inevitably
accompany the elimination of agricultural subsidies. Many ideologues will
hasten to reassure you, though, that it's the kind of pain you forget.

SK

]]> By: SkepticalOfHippies http://textiplication.com/2009/01/27/ok-can-we-stop-blaming-vaccines-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-34995 SkepticalOfHippies Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:42:04 +0000 http://textiplication.com/2009/01/27/ok-can-we-stop-blaming-vaccines-yet/#comment-34995 The levels of mercury found in the study, even in the highest amount found, was around 1/6th the levels considered safe for drinking water. And you probably don't consume nearly as much HFCS as you do water. We are talking about extremely trace amounts here, and not nearly enough to cause any sort of physiological effect.<br><br>The group that did the study (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy) is a progressive organization whose primary goal in life is to take down Big Agra, making specious claims about food safety is just one of their tactics.<br><br>Read over the study, it's mostly fluff and ideology. The levels of mercury found in the study, even in the highest amount found, was around 1/6th the levels considered safe for drinking water. And you probably don't consume nearly as much HFCS as you do water. We are talking about extremely trace amounts here, and not nearly enough to cause any sort of physiological effect.

The group that did the study (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy) is a progressive organization whose primary goal in life is to take down Big Agra, making specious claims about food safety is just one of their tactics.

Read over the study, it's mostly fluff and ideology.

]]> By: skottk http://textiplication.com/2009/01/27/ok-can-we-stop-blaming-vaccines-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-22488 skottk Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:20:20 +0000 http://textiplication.com/2009/01/27/ok-can-we-stop-blaming-vaccines-yet/#comment-22488 Thanks for stopping by!<br>On one level, I am completely prepared to believe what you say. I wrote<br>this more out of my long-time frustration with anti-vaccine idiocy than out<br>of any specific concern with mercury in HFCS.<br>However, I have to say - finding out that HFCS has measurable mercury is<br>kind of like finding out that some Ford Excursions are upholstered with baby<br>seal skins. We're talking about a high-calorie artificial sweetener made<br>with industrial chemical processes that's only economical because of<br>pointless and expensive agricultural subsidies, incidentally impoverishing<br>tropical island economies that would otherwise be able to sell us the cane<br>sugar that we'd really prefer.<br>As a sensible skeptic, you're probably aware of the corrosive and distorting<br>effects of agricultural subsidies that create artificially low prices for<br>commodities like corn.<br>Your particular skepticism of hippies probably inclines you against using<br>taxpayer dollars as welfare for specific industries and in favor of the<br>power of the market to determine what crops are grown and how they're<br>prepared, cooked, consumed, cracked with caustic chemicals, and contaminated<br>with heavy metals.<br>Your disdain for fluff and ideology probably leaves you nervous, however at<br>the prospect of the Schumpetrian creative distruction that would inevitably<br>accompany the elimination of agricultural subsidies. Many ideologues will<br>hasten to reassure you, though, that it's the kind of pain you forget.<br><br>SK Thanks for stopping by!
On one level, I am completely prepared to believe what you say. I wrote
this more out of my long-time frustration with anti-vaccine idiocy than out
of any specific concern with mercury in HFCS.
However, I have to say – finding out that HFCS has measurable mercury is
kind of like finding out that some Ford Excursions are upholstered with baby
seal skins. We're talking about a high-calorie artificial sweetener made
with industrial chemical processes that's only economical because of
pointless and expensive agricultural subsidies, incidentally impoverishing
tropical island economies that would otherwise be able to sell us the cane
sugar that we'd really prefer.
As a sensible skeptic, you're probably aware of the corrosive and distorting
effects of agricultural subsidies that create artificially low prices for
commodities like corn.
Your particular skepticism of hippies probably inclines you against using
taxpayer dollars as welfare for specific industries and in favor of the
power of the market to determine what crops are grown and how they're
prepared, cooked, consumed, cracked with caustic chemicals, and contaminated
with heavy metals.
Your disdain for fluff and ideology probably leaves you nervous, however at
the prospect of the Schumpetrian creative distruction that would inevitably
accompany the elimination of agricultural subsidies. Many ideologues will
hasten to reassure you, though, that it's the kind of pain you forget.

SK

]]> By: SkepticalOfHippies http://textiplication.com/2009/01/27/ok-can-we-stop-blaming-vaccines-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-22486 SkepticalOfHippies Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:42:04 +0000 http://textiplication.com/2009/01/27/ok-can-we-stop-blaming-vaccines-yet/#comment-22486 The levels of mercury found in the study, even in the highest amount found, was around 1/6th the levels considered safe for drinking water. And you probably don't consume nearly as much HFCS as you do water. We are talking about extremely trace amounts here, and not nearly enough to cause any sort of physiological effect.<br><br>The group that did the study (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy) is a progressive organization whose primary goal in life is to take down Big Agra, making specious claims about food safety is just one of their tactics.<br><br>Read over the study, it's mostly fluff and ideology. The levels of mercury found in the study, even in the highest amount found, was around 1/6th the levels considered safe for drinking water. And you probably don't consume nearly as much HFCS as you do water. We are talking about extremely trace amounts here, and not nearly enough to cause any sort of physiological effect.

The group that did the study (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy) is a progressive organization whose primary goal in life is to take down Big Agra, making specious claims about food safety is just one of their tactics.

Read over the study, it's mostly fluff and ideology.

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