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Antibody Food Spices

Posted by Hemos on from the adding-it-all-in dept.

jargon writes "Flouride...antibiotics...looks like they now want to add antibodies to your food. "Adding spices laced with antibodies to your cooking could help protect against food poisoning bacteria, according to scientists.""

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  1. Antibodies in food by override11 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, but wouldnt this constant exposure to these generally weaken the human body's ability to fight off disease itself? Also, this would help develop more resistant strains of bacteria. I think this is a bad thing, IMHO..

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    1. Re:Antibodies in food by PeDRoRist · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Hmmm,
      Wouldn't it be better if we'd let those harmful agents infect our cells and let our body learn how to produce matching antibodies by itself?
      Like, you know, the natural way.

      Of course, IANAD but it make sense, IMHO.

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  2. Same criticism applies as to "cold pasteurization" by geoswan · · Score: 3, Insightful
    "Cold pasteurization" is the term some in the USA would like to use for bombarding food with a killing dose of radiation.

    This irradiation prevents fresh food like Potatoes, from sprouting. The potato is still alive. This kills it.

    This irradiation also kills microbes within the food, or on its surface, that could cause it to go bad.

    One of the criticisms of irradiating food is that the knowledge that the food will eventually be irradiated will cause those responsible for maintaining cleanliness in the preparation of the food to relax their standards.

    And I believe the same criticism could be applied here.

    The article that drew this to my attention talked, in detail, about how modern slaughterhouses work. Apparently a batch of meat gets tainted by E.coli when an intestine gets nicked, and fecal matter leaks out. Yuck.

    I'd prefer my food to be safe to eat even if some high tech wonder failed, or that step was skipped.

  3. They'd better not! by Saint+Mitchell · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If they do this, I want a warning in HUGE neon letters warning me. I don't like antibiotics, or anything like them. I fight things on my own, who needs a weak immune system. When I get VERY sick I ask the doc "will this kill me if I don't take your wussy antibiotics". When he says no, then I stay runned down that extra week, so what. After years of practicing this, surprise, I don't get sick. Stuff that knocks everyone in the office down for a week takes me all of a day to get over. Antibiotics, ha, I spit on your grave. Food poisioning? I could eat raw swine if I felt so inclined.

    1. Re:They'd better not! by Oriumpor · · Score: 3, Insightful
      Since I'm sure most flames/trolls will be based upon facts being ignored, here is what antibody means.

      From DICTIONARY.com

      antibody ( P ) Pronunciation Key (nt-bd)
      n. pl. antibodies

      A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus, such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or transplanted organ, and that neutralizes the antigen by binding specifically to it; an immunoglobulin.


      MUCH DIFFERENT than an Antibiotic for the little informed:

      antibiotic ( P ) Pronunciation Key (nt-b-tk, nt-)
      n.
      A substance, such as penicillin or streptomycin, produced by or derived from certain fungi, bacteria, and other organisms, that can destroy or inhibit the growth of other microorganisms. Antibiotics are widely used in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.


      now... next time RTFA