Comments on: Food Companies Are Placing the Onus for Safety on Consumers

By: lagavulin

lagavulin — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:28:14 +0000

I have a buddy who eats large amounts of raw meat of all kinds. He believes cooking turns any food into poison. He’s been a big influence on a number of people around here, if only to rid us of the belief that raw meat is inherently dangerous (actually, almost all non-Western cultures have raw meat dishes of some kind or other).

Of course, the difference – and the danger – lies in the quality and freshness of the meat.

As a matter of fact he cured himself of Crohn’s disease doing this, essentially following the dietary path of cult-nutrition-guru Aajonus Vonderplanitz.

But more to the subject, I believe Vonderplanitz claims anecdotally of having spoken to a food-industry scientist some years ago, and this guy told him that the industry had done a major study in the ’40s or so feeding raw meat vs. cooked meat to animals. They were trying to prove the efficacy of cooking industrial food at different temps. But what they discovered is that the cooked food inevitably caused all kinds of health problems in the subjects, while the raw meat subjects retained glowing health. They supposedly buried the study, destroyed the evidence, and continued with their industrial-food agenda…because they NEEDED to cook the meat, to keep it from going bad throughout its long journey in the industry-infrastructure.

By: ltcolonelnemo

ltcolonelnemo — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:07:11 +0000

They also do that when they expect us to clean the dirt off the vegetable we buy, to not drink stuff past the expiration date, to clean off some of the pesticide residue, to cook raw meats, etc.

I’m sure this stuff has been killing people for longer than realized.

By: anothernut

anothernut — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:46:37 +0000

My attempt at the counter-cryptogon interpretation: “Well, globalism isn’t perfect, but as processes become more efficient, fewer and fewer of these kinds of ‘anomalies’ will occur (why? because ‘experts’ say so). So just [STFU and] hang in there. Oh, and if that doesn’t work, we’ll nuke every last morsel of food, water and (when we figure out how) air that passes your lips. Start buying stocks in the ‘anti-cancer’ sector of Big Pharma. NOW.
“Win/win!”

Honestly, something very like this (without the tongue-in-cheek) appearing in the ’science’ reddit wouldn’t surprise me at all.