Comment on Scientists Growing Colour Without Chemicals
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 4 days ago
Microbes are still made of chemicals, it’s just different chemicals
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Murdered…
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
So are you.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I hate the “chemicals bad” nonsense. It’s ignorant fearmongering. Meanwhile I eat chemicals for breakfast.
magnetosphere@fedia.io 4 days ago
“It’s 100% natural!”
“So is arsenic.”
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When I see “without chemicals” I just assume it’s shorthand for “without known harmful chemicals, probably” until I carefully read the label and learn more
lauha@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Asbestos is literally 100% natural. A pure natural product.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
So are hemlock and belladonna.
The internet also does get “the dose makes the poison”.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Really!? Crazy, imma read up on asbest today :), thanks for the factoid!
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 4 days ago
My favorite: “With natural ingredients!”
EvilBit@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I take it as shorthand for “without known harmful chemicals, probably, also, we think you’re an idiot”.
iopq@lemmy.world 4 days ago
There are artificial colors that are not known to be harmful, so would that also mean they are without chemicals?
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Everyone who eats and drinks chemicals will eventually die!
EvilBit@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I knew someone who ate a chemical once and they died so it must be true.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Nonetheless, be careful especially with cosmetica. They don’t use lead and arsen anymore only because it is forbidden now. Carcinogen and hormonal active substances are not rare there.
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 3 days ago
Geez, you’ve eaten so many chemicals, that’s all you are made up of now
Manjushri@piefed.social 3 days ago
Yeah, I for one have never eaten anything except chemicals!
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I started working at a job that had a “Do Not Dump Chemicals Down Sink” sign. I asked it that included H2O, because I actually poured water down it. They didn’t like my joke.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They run a lab. They should know better.
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
They also know that you know what they mean.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Oooo, quercetin, so spooky like myricetin and kaempferol. I can’t even go outside for fear of the chemical cyanidin. Wait. Those are just banana flavour compounds. My bad.
Ancalagon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Nerd <3