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Quixote1818

(28,937 posts) Sat Aug 27, 2016, 09:25 AM Aug 2016

The "natural" label on your food is baloney

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The "natural" label on your food is baloney (Original Post) Quixote1818 Aug 2016 OP

What is natural? Eko Aug 2016 #1

When you think about it all atoms are natural so by putting them together in any combination Quixote1818 Aug 2016 #4

I used to like baloney. Evergreen Emerald Aug 2016 #2

What's fun is trying a paleo diet duncang Aug 2016 #3

Eko

(7,299 posts)

1. What is natural?

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Sat Aug 27, 2016, 05:37 PM

Aug 2016

Here are some natural things.
A Natural Banana.

Natural Uranium.

Quixote1818

(28,937 posts)

4. When you think about it all atoms are natural so by putting them together in any combination

Reply to Eko (Reply #1)

Sun Aug 28, 2016, 12:33 PM

Aug 2016

you still have natural atoms combining with other natural atoms in foods. The case could be made that it's impossible for anything not to be natural. Maybe the term should be "Earth Grown Only". Or something like that?

Evergreen Emerald

(13,069 posts)

2. I used to like baloney.

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Sat Aug 27, 2016, 11:25 PM

Aug 2016

But I do not think it is natural.

duncang

(1,907 posts)

3. What's fun is trying a paleo diet

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Sun Aug 28, 2016, 01:45 AM

Aug 2016

Trying to avoid a lot of the chemicals, sugar, or other additives. You can't hardly trust anything.

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