But this is beyond, me and my arm pits. I don't see, by what right, my
good neighbor, unwittingly, and The Gillette Company can spray
petro-based ingredients into the air.
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, J. S. wrote:
>
> Personally I would much rather eat crushed beetle eggs than alot of the
> other chemical and synthetic dyes that are commonly used, after all, an egg
> is an egg and a petroleum product is a petroleum product. I think one of
> the best ways to think about the product you are consuming is to think about
> what the product does and how that relates to how your body is designed to
> function both individually and in our ecosystem. For the
> deodorant/antiperspirant example--Your body has a purpose in sweating,
> cooling the body temperature and removing toxins to name a few; so a product
> that is designed to either stop the sweating all together (especially bad)
> or cloud its odours is not going to come from ingredients that we would
> consider "nAtural" to consume because this product is not performing a
> "natural " task
>
> >From: Renewable News Network <rnn@rnn.com>
> >To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu
> >Subject: request for information
> >Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 10:56:48 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> >
> >From rnn@rnn.com Mon Jul 19 09:30:16 1999
> >Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 09:28:07 -0400 (EDT)
> >From: Renewable News Network <rnn@rnn.com>
> >To: san-x@rnn.com
> >Subject: request for information
> >
> >Dear list people.
> >
> >I was wondering if I could get some pointers on how to read consumer
> >product labels, what they mean, and what the alternatives are?
> >
> >Last holiday season I received a can of deodorant. Putting aside any
> >meaning in such a gift - it was a stocking stuffer - another way
> >to buy a piece of the holiday spirit; the ingredients bothered me,
> >starting with SD alcohol 40-B, PROPANE (and) BUTANE (and) ISOBUTANE,
> >WATER, PROPYLENE GLCOL, etc.
> >
> >Here's the article that inspired me to try to get a grip on the
> >possibly dangerous products out there.
> >
> >Yours truly,
> >Ross
> >
> >encl:
> >
> >---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >http://www.bobharris.com/
> >
> >Just how exactly do they make pink lemonade pink?
> >
> >Prompted by you, my demented readers, I did a little poking around, and
> >sure enough, there is an answer. And that answer is
> >
> >Crushed beetle eggs.
> >
> >Bleaugh!
> >
> >That's really the truth. Now, not all pink lemonade uses this particular
> >dye, so check your label, but it turns out that the red coloring often
> >used is something called "cochineal extract," which extracted from the
> >eggs of the cochineal beetle.
> >
> >The cochineal beetle, incidentally, is a little squirmy thing that lives
> >in cactus plants in Peru and the Canary Islands. Which, if you ask me, is
> >precisely where the cochineal beetle belongs, not in a cold summertime
> >drink many of our kids chug by the gallon.
> >
> >The label doesn't always say "cochineal extract." Sometimes, if they
> >purify the extract, they call it "carmine." Swell. It's still crushed
> >insect eggs. A rose (coloring) by any other name
> >
> >And while beetle eggs are supposedly pretty safe, not everything Big
> >Brother packs in your lunchbox is. Check out www.safe-food.org if you're
> >curious about what the hell else is throbbing around in your fridge.
> >
> >Y'know what? For me, here's the distressing part: I'm a vegetarian and it
> >turns out I eat crushed beetle eggs all the time. If you eat ice cream or
> >yogurt or candy that has a red, pink, or purple tinge, guess what? You're
> >gargling beetle juice. Call me crazy, but it seems like that ought to be
> >on a label somewhere.
> >
> >"The lemons in this pink lemonade contain no pork, beef, mollusk, or
> >kangaroo DNA, and the ade part became pink without the use of insects,
> >spiders, or garter snakes."
> >
> >Just like Mom used to make.
> >
> >___________________________
> >
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> >be published soon by Common Courage Press.
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