'Clean food' is a dangerous fad

[SVPete]

If you believe that dumping thousands of gallons of chemicals don't effect the growth and flavor of vegetable that's your choice. I think differently.
Good day.

More ad hominem straw man absurdity ... unsurprising and typical. Backing off the absurd claims about "thousands of times more vitamins" and "fertilized to cancer"? Think I've (and anyone else interested in them) forgotten those absurdities?

If you don't like - judging by the tone of your posts and your use of absurd ad hominem - my comments about the "organic" food movement, look no farther for explanation than the slanders and ludicrosities (such as were in your post) of "organic" food movement true-believers. I've been hearing that nonsense for 4 or 5 decades (and, for some strange mysterious reason, haven't yet keeled over from cancer or grown a third leg). (Doing a half marathon as a solo three-legged race might be interesting, though)

At your invite, I looked over my post, and found what I already knew was there. I "attacked" the content of your post, not you. That's something about which I'm particularly careful. And I certainly didn't post absurd speculations as to what you believe. I assume, of course, that you know that "ad hominem attack" means personal attacks and insults, not things you don't like hearing.

[Big Dog]

I like seeing the foods that are "gluten-free" when they don't have gluten in them to begin with. Gluten is a protein found in wheat/oats.

[SVPete]

I like seeing the foods that are "gluten-free" when they don't have gluten in them to begin with. Gluten is a protein found in wheat/oats.

It does seem weird, and maybe it's just fad-hopping. OTOH, sufferers of celiac disease cannot tolerate gluten at all. Not even from a product naturally without gluten that was processed in a factory that produces other products that do contain gluten. It may sound weird, but cross-contamination can happen. A weird example ... when my daughter was in India she found that foods that did not have curry spice in it but was produced in a factory that also produced foods spiced with curry did indeed taste of curry spice. I asked her if they had Curry Frosted Flakes for breakfast food.

[ColonelCarrots]

I found this

[SVPete]

I found this

As with many "health" fads, there's at least a small core of reality underlying (sometimes buried rather deep) the fad. Celiac disease is real. And there are people who have figured out, through rigorous use of elimination diets, that they have adverse reactions to foods containing gluten. But fad has taken over and transformed gluten into the latest bogeyman-that-will-destroy-the-human-race (OK, that's part hyperbole, but gluten has become a fad-bogeyman).

My gluten "allergy" is that I eat bread, pasta, and cereals and it's "made me" fat. It couldn't possibly have to do with 5 decades of poor portion control and aversion to exercise ...