As my grade 11 chemistry teacher used to say, everything is chemistry. You are made of chemicals. Fresh spring water is a chemical. Mother's milk fresh from the teat is a chemical.
I eat alot of "organic" and so-called "natural" foods like beef and fruits (as if there were such a thing as a "synthetic" cow, lol, what's that, like a robocow?) for various reasons. But I'll never get over the ignorance that gets displayed by normally intelligent people. You'd think that if it was made by nature, it just MUST be healthy. I've got some natural botulism and arsenic for you, if you want to talk about all-natural things that will kill you quicker than all the laboratory chemicals in the world.
Here's the fact: just because something is made in a laboratory, doesn't mean it's bad for you, and just because something was made by mother nature, doesn't mean it's good for you. You have no greater chance of getting cancer from whip n' chill just because it didn't grow in the ground or get excreted by an animal. The belief that the laboratory automatically imparts harmful qualities to food versus animals or plants is, frankly, equivalent to superstition. It's magical thinking, baseless in reality. Unless you have some specific evidence that this produce is harmful (which you don't), you're just talking out of ignorance and fear.
The problem I see here is the inverse of the problem in the 60's. Back then, people thought something was good because it was made in a lab. Novelty became a substitute for quality. Now we condemn anything that was made in a lab, but think anything natural is great. That's about as stupid, only in reverse. If something made in a lab is better, for whatever reason, then I'll use the lab product. If something grown in the ground is better, then I'll use that. I'll pay more for so-called "organic" beef and eggs because I think the methods those producers use is more humane, not because of some stupid knee-jerk prejudice against "chemistry" (talk about biting the hand that feeds you, considering how dependent we are on chemistry in all aspects of our lives)
It's sad that fear and propaganda has made such a self-evidently true proposition like "better living through chemistry" (and make no mistake, you ARE living better because of chemistry, no matter how you deny it) something people snicker at!
Sorry for the rant, lol. Just had to get that off my chest.
