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Pseudo-science or good health? Food blogger claims you are eating beaver urine - pRICE cUBE - 05-08-2015
I am all for eating better and consuming less processed foods but some of the claims the health blogger and the methods she uses sounds questionable to me.
Claims of "Food Babe" including the alarming notion of beaver urine is in food. Read the article to see how she makes her conclusions.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/02/food_babe_book_and_blog_claims_beaver_ass_coal_tar_and_yoga_mat_in_your.html
Hari tirelessly reminds her blog readers that the next time they take licks of vanilla ice cream or spoonfuls of strawberry oatmeal, “there’s a chance you’ll be swirling secretions from a beaver’s anal glands around in your mouth.” It surely drives traffic: Tell me you wouldn’t click on a link to “Do You Eat Beaver Butt?” She is referring to castoreum, which is indeed extracted from a pair of sacs found on the rear end of a beaver, though not from the anal glands. Castoreum has been used in unguents and medicines for more than 2,000 years, but the Food Babe was appalled to discover the Food and Drug Administration considers castoreum to be not gross but GRAS—“generally recognized as safe” for both food and pharmaceutical uses.
The use of scare tactics says a lot to me when you think about the near impossibility of collecting enough beaver urine to add to foods. How would they hire people for this task?
Now Hiring: Beaver Urine Collector, enjoy the great outdoors, long hikes, hands-on intimate connections with nature. Includes health, dental, 401k. Call 555-555-5555.
The language is quite frank in this Gawker article where "Food Babe" is called out by "Science Babe".
http://tinyurl.com/oksly88
Re: Pseudo-science or good health? Food blogger claims you are eating beaver urine - freeradical - 05-08-2015
Crazy makes the world an entertaining place...
Re: Pseudo-science or good health? Food blogger claims you are eating beaver urine - OWC Jamie - 05-08-2015
I don't think I'm clicking whether they are collecting two legged or 4 legged beaver urine.
Re: Pseudo-science or good health? Food blogger claims you are eating beaver urine - Racer X - 05-08-2015
Well, yeah. If you subscribe to the fact that our planet is 4 billion+ years old, and you can't destroy matter, everything in our atmosphere has been recycled tens if not hundreds of millions of time. That carbon in the Kleenex you just used might once have once been T Rex crap. Or worse.
That wine? Nitrogen from prehistoric sheep foreskin.
Ambergris? Whale vomit used in perfumes. Let's dab puke on our cheeks.
None of this is new. Just that someone is paying attention to a blogger, and THAT brings the concept to our attention? That's the sad part.
This just in..... Fish pee in the water they swim in!
Re: Pseudo-science or good health? Food blogger claims you are eating beaver urine - pRICE cUBE - 05-08-2015
billb wrote:
I don't think I'm clicking whether they are collecting two legged or 4 legged beaver urine.
The links are two stories about the blogger, not any link to the blogger's site. It is an interesting glimpse into what some people are convincing themselves is good and healthy science. It also shows that bloggers such as this are gaining some appeal, even appearing on shows such as Dr. Oz. For some people, if it is on TV or internet, it must be true.
Re: Pseudo-science or good health? Food blogger claims you are eating beaver urine - Sam3 - 05-08-2015
gawker link doesn't go anywhere.
Re: Pseudo-science or good health? Food blogger claims you are eating beaver urine - pRICE cUBE - 05-08-2015
Sam3 wrote:
gawker link doesn't go anywhere.
Link should work now that I used tinyurl
Re: Pseudo-science or good health? Food blogger claims you are eating beaver urine - DP - 05-08-2015
Wait-there are beaver farms for the extraction of castoreum? Anyone ever seen a beaver farm?
Re: Pseudo-science or good health? Food blogger claims you are eating beaver urine - ztirffritz - 05-08-2015
Yes, it's true.
Re: Pseudo-science or good health? Food blogger claims you are eating beaver urine - Acer - 05-08-2015
Disgusting! Now, pass the sausage.