[ale] beer

[Dustin Strickland]

I'm glad that most of you guys can see through the propaganda about
GMOs. Maybe now everyone can start focusing on *actually* dangerous
things, like dihydrogen monoxide. http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

:P

On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 20:24:07 -0400
Sean Kilpatrick <kilpatms at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, April 08, 2014 06:52:42 pm Pete Hardie wrote:
> > Yeah, they spin the usual propaganda against anything they think is
> > 'odd' in the ingredient list - insect-based dyes (carmine, I
> > believe) has been proven safe.  Now, it's not vegan/vegetarian, but
> > that's not a health issue.
> > 
> > Fish bladder?  I know of no studies that even discuss this, and
> > unless it's a fugu bladder, it's as safe as the fish.
> > 
> > Carageenan is from seaweed, and has no significant risk studies to
> > date.
> > 
> > sheesh.  The only thing good about that list was that it did include
> > most of the crappy mass-produced swill that ruined the beer industry
> > in America
> > 
> 
> 
> My two observations exactly.  
> 
> I dislike hfcs (high fructose corn syrup) because of what it's demand
> has done to the American farm and to the demand for cane sugar in
> this country (but I need more real beer to begin to discuss the cane
> sugar market) and not because I believe it is seriously harmful to my
> body.  I was only amused by the fact that most of the beers on the
> list were the American- made crap that has done so much damage to the
> beer market in this country.
> 
> Mike was right when he noted that the article pegged his bullshit
> meter. It pegged mine as well.
> 
> Sean
>