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Antibody Food Spices
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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No, it wouldn't. We're talking about antibodies, not antibiotics. Antibodies are molecules that bind to the receptors of bacteria/viruses and thus prevent them from binding to your cells and infecting them. That's all they do - basically turn harmful agents into harmless dust-like particles. They're not alive, they're not poison. They're pretty cool!
Daniel
Carpe Diem
While this looks like a great boon to people's immune systems, it's been known for some time that certain spices such as wild oregano oil (normal oregano is much milder) have very strong bacteria-fighting properties. Unfortunately, wild oregano is very rare, gorws only on mountains, and is illegal (!) to remove from those mountains... People really should look into getting ahold of some wild oregano and try growing it in bulk elsewhere or even try engineering it to strengthen its bacteria-fighting properties... now that would be useful.
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Lord, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
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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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.
From DICTIONARY.com
MUCH DIFFERENT than an Antibiotic for the little informed:
now... next time RTFA