[Zaxtor]

Please vote if you don't want disgusting things in your ice cream. If you care for ice cream which I do, Sign it.
For years, the FDA has allowed companies to use "castoreum" to flavor ice cream and other foods. The problem? Castoreum is a fancy word for a compound from the crushed anal sacs of beavers.

Not only is this stuff disgusting and inhumane, it's kept totally secret. Under FDA rules, companies don't need to include castoreum on the ingredients list -- they can just call it "natural flavoring".

The FDA normally just hears from big business lobbyists, but if we all speak out, we can demand they adopt honest rules about this disgusting practice. That's why we need everyone to sign our petition to them!


PETITION TO THE FDA: Please stop allowing "castoreum" to be considered just another "natural flavor" and require food manufacturers to include it on the ingredients. Customers deserve to know when they're eating bizarre animal products.

http://act.watchdog....=1140924.YoZe8c

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4. Vanilla Ice Cream

If you’re a label-reader like me, you may see castoreum listed on vanilla & raspberry ice cream.

Ick factor: What they don’t say on the label is that castoreum is the anal secretions & urine from a beaver. While not known to be harmful, knowing there’s beaver pee in your ice cream may help you cut empty calories!

Stuff talking about 6 disgusting things you're eating without knowing it.
P1
http://www.forbes.co...t-even-know-it/
P2
http://www.forbes.co...even-know-it/2/

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Yawn.

[TerminX]

Whatever, anal beaver piss is delicious.

[Zaxtor]

Is wrong not to tell people what they put.
Would someone drink a certain popular brand of bottled water if they find out it contain human or pig piss?

[High Treason]

I don't see how any of these ingredients are considered a problem... Now introduce lead, mercury or cyanide and I might start to worry - having said that my workshop is my kitchen, so I've probably contaminated most of my food with lead, maybe kerosene too, if nothing else, but then, that's my fault.

Edit: The post above mine made me think of that billboard in GTA IV, you know the one I'm on about, can't find it on Google anywhere.

[OpenMaw]

Jesus, you make it sound like they actively cover it up. They DON'T. Anyone who wants to know what in what they're eating in dick-biting detail can figure it out. It's an oxymoron whenever someone says that they can't, because guess what? You're talking about it right now. It's been known for a long time. Seriously, it's not killing you. Stop whining about things that aren't deadly, and thusly making everything ironically taste more like ass.

It's also not the only animal product we eat, not by far, and it's also not the only animal ass we partake in. Ever had a rump roast? Ever had anything related to a pig? You've eaten something very close to ass on several occasions and in probably a much closer state than liquid beaver butt.

Also, it's not the same thing as drinking animal or human waste. Any meat products, or meat related products have to be cleaned before they are processed and used in any foods. It's the cleanest ass you'll get a piece of outside of a bleached-pre-coitous porn-ass.


Jesus people get their panties in a twist over silly shit these days. Somebody pass the ice cream.

mmm, rocky road.

High Treason, on 14 October 2012 - 04:41 PM, said:

I don't see how any of these ingredients are considered a problem... Now introduce lead, mercury or cyanide and I might start to worry - having said that my workshop is my kitchen, so I've probably contaminated most of my food with lead, maybe kerosene too, if nothing else, but then, that's my fault.

Edit: The post above mine made me think of that billboard in GTA IV, you know the one I'm on about, can't find it on Google anywhere.

See, I have to take issue with this thinking almost immediately. Lead, mercury and cyanide are lethal when a certain amount is present. When you're talking about highly-distilled, highly diluted amounts in very small quantities it stops being a problem entirely. Certainly, you don't want them in any large doses, but people seem to forget that we can handle 'trace amounts' without any issue. We take in Iron as part of our diet for crying out loud.

This is the same kind of hysteria that's causing major diseases to pop back up because people weren't taking vaccinations because they thought they were linked to autism.

[Zaxtor]

Is not dangerous.
Is disgusting.
Disgusting doesn't mean dangerous.

Dangerous means doing harm like mercury, cyanide, ricin, sarin, lead and pesticides.

Moldy bread is not dangerous but is gross.
Probably can make you sick if it has large fungus.


I never said was deadly.


Iron is needed to live.
Iron deficiency is dangerous, causes weakness and more.
Over-taking iron can damage your kidneys and cause death,

[Fox]

Too bad for vegetarians.

[High Treason]

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See, I have to take issue with this thinking almost immediately. Lead, mercury and cyanide are lethal when a certain amount is present. When you're talking about highly-distilled, highly diluted amounts in very small quantities it stops being a problem entirely. Certainly, you don't want them in any large doses, but people seem to forget that we can handle 'trace amounts' without any issue. We take in Iron as part of our diet for crying out loud.

This is the same kind of hysteria that's causing major diseases to pop back up because people weren't taking vaccinations because they thought they were linked to autism.

Actually I wasn't meaning that to be taken so seriously, I think your body passes about 85% of lead within 24 hours, it's actually quite hard to damage yourself with it compared with what most people think (You'd literally have to eat a block of it and if you did that you'd be really stupid, I doubt it even tastes very good.) - you're right about hysteria though, people panic at the slightest hint of such materials, or radiation or dirt...

I notice how it's always those super-clean people that get ill first, because isolating themselves from all bacteria weakens your immune system, personally I like a bit of dirt and I eat mouldy bread quite often because it tastes alright so I'm not wasting money on more if I don't have to and it's never done me any harm I also drink off milk but that's all cheese or yoghurt is when you think about it. Actually, that sawdust in the cheese one amused me, I wonder how much wood you eat with ice pops? Anyway, how is it different from eating the similarly textured liquorice root? People just pull that out of the ground and chew on it. Having said that, I eat stinging nettles, those taste like spinach, they're actually meant to be quite good for you as well.

Man has been here a long time, we're still here, but look back in time and a relatively short time ago we were living in caves, clubbing things to death and eating them raw, whilst I wouldn't suggest doing this as it could make you ill, the human race did survive doing this for quite a long time.

I remember all that crap about vaccines, you start to wonder where some people keep their brains after a while, I only missed one because I didn't like the needle, but I went back and got it done anyway, while it bruised my arm, it was a small price to pay.

[Zaxtor]

Mercury stays longer than lead but doesn't mean lead is good for you even if it pass through faster.
It does gradual damage,

I doubt it that beaver stuff has germs.

Piss is generally sterile in germs like blood.
But doesn't mean is good to drink piss.

Beaver piss may be "neutral in small amount"
But is gross.
Feces is tiny amount might be "neutral" as you won't get E-coli etc.

But is gross.
Some gross stuff can be sterile as food passing through UV and Ozone gas which kills 100% of germs.

[Hank]

so only vanilla and rasberry?
Then this is ok then?
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Just making sure ....

[Jeff]

Probably best to make homemade ice cream. I made some in high school cooking class when I was younger.

[Hendricks266]

I'm surprised not to see carmine on the list. It's a purple food dye put in some yogurts commonly made from boiled insect relatives of cockroaches. Kneejerk ick factors side, it doesn't actually matter. These are chemicals and substances we are talking about, not the literal insects/sheep/human hair/beaver ass glands.

That being said, the sensationalist who wrote that article can shut right the fuck up. It's of no value to rhetorically compare substances with their source of origin. Pillows, sheets, and the air you are breathing right now are full of dust mites and their feces. I read somewhere that a company in northern Europe makes a facial moisturizer out of semen. Does that steak come with dead baby extract? Hit me up, bro!

Personally, I don't mind having a little sawdust in my shredded cheese. Fiber FTW, and sawdust.

[Lunick]

I see why they call it 'natural' flavouring.

[gibfrag]

A petition over ice cream? Is this intended as a joke?

What's next?

[Mark]

Its been decades ago, but I seem to remember that "Jello" is made up of ground up animal leftovers.

[Mikko]

Zaxtor, on 14 October 2012 - 04:35 PM, said:

Is wrong not to tell people what they put.

It's not wrong because we simply don't want to know this stuff. It tastes good and poses no health risk so what's the problem?

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Nobody seems to be too peeved about the fact that other cultures eat dogs and cats and cockroaches.

As for me, I shamelessly ate a pound of rare-cooked New York strip steak last night. So yeah, I just ate cow muscle - still mooing a little.

[LeoD]

Achenar, on 15 October 2012 - 04:29 AM, said:

As for me, I shamelessly ate a pound of rare-cooked New York strip steak last night. So yeah, I just ate cow muscle - still mooing a little.

It's best when a good vet could still revive it.

[Hendricks266]

Marked, on 15 October 2012 - 03:55 AM, said:

Its been decades ago, but I seem to remember that "Jello" is made up of ground up animal leftovers.

Yep. The chemical gelatin is made of ground up animal bones, from what I remember it's usually horses. This includes food products like marshmallows.

[Zaxtor]

Bones aren't disgusting.
Well is my opinion.

Bone is mostly made of calcium phosphate and others.

[Mark]

Another fun fact in regulations. I don't remember specifics but I know that up to a certain amount of mouse droppings are ALLOWED per ton or some other measured volume of grains when received from the farms for processing.

[Hank]

^ let me guess, someone out there is actually checking for a ratio of mouse dropping/ton of wheat?

Another fact, our health oriented government ticketed the Farmer's Market here, because you could get milk, fresh from the farm, without a label like (Put Your Fav Dairy Product name here). This is forbidden. Milk has to be pasteurized before you can sell it. God forbid, you get up early, and get super fresh milk from your neighbourly rancher.

[Zaxtor]

Isn't SOME mouse feces loaded with this deadly incurable disease called hantavirus?
Well is highly common among deer mouse.
Probably the mouse crap you're referring are common house mouse.

Some ppl can naturally recover from it.


Putting in it on purpose is worst than accidentally.
I am sure these companies don't like mouse shitting in their product either.

Milk is probably the most strictly regulated dairy product.
I saw some source saying it.

Well yogurt is strict too.
I how on how its made. They exaggerates how they make yogurt. Which is good,
They use ozone or UV to kill BAD bacteria.

If there is a TINY defect they recall it.
Even a harmless discolored fruit in yogurt they remove it.


Only defect yogurt can have is during transportation when container get damage, air enters it and spoils it.

[Person of Color]

Who cares? Not the first time I've eaten anus. Giving your girlfriend a set of 20mm rims for her Cadillac Asscalade is far more dangerous.

Zaxtor, on 15 October 2012 - 05:54 PM, said:

Isn't SOME mouse feces loaded with this deadly incurable disease called hantavirus?
Well is highly common among deer mouse.
Probably the mouse crap you're referring are common house mouse.

Some ppl can naturally recover from it.

Yeah...you can only get hantavirus if you live in a dry as hell arid climate. Like a desert.

Energy drinks contain synthetic taurine. Do you know what taurine is? Synthetic hormones. You know where those hormones hail from? Bull testicles.

[The Commander]

And here I was waiting for Zaxtor to make a thread on eating Whale meat after viewing Zaxtor's comments on Enigmahood's video.
Instead I am presented with Zaxtor's weekly thread about ice cream, I feel so let down.

[Zaxtor]

I commented on your vid respond more than on Enigma's vid about whaling.
We can put it here cus whaling is disgusting as barbaric.

[High Treason]

Depends on who is doing it... I belive Eskimo's eat whale meat but they likely don't have much else around and I doubt they waste very much given the kind of environment they live in.

[Zaxtor]

Japanese does it for commercial purpose and lies and says "scientific purposes".
Sea has poorer laws than on land.
They take on rare and or endangered species.
There are no humane way to take down a whale.

[Inspector Lagomorf]

You know humans are made out of carbon.
Carbon are found in a lot of things.
Like beer or pizza.

Feel kind of strange to know you are eating things that humans made out of.

Who knows what it are doing to our bodies.

Maybe we should just stop eating anything that contain carbon.