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Sodium nitrite is used to cure and preserve meat. That's why Amazon sell it. It is not a "suicide kit" any more than any other chemical.
by LatteLazy 4y ago
Sodium nitrite is used to cure and preserve meat. That's why Amazon sell it. It is not a "suicide kit" any more than any other chemical.
- SuchAnonMuchWow 4y agoFrom the thread: > Amazon recommends that purchasers also buy Tagamet to avoid vomiting up the poison, a personal use scale to measure the proper quantity, and the Amazon Edition of the Peaceful Pill Handbook, a suicide manual with an entire chapter on how to die by SN. That's definitely a suicide kit.
- LatteLazy 4y agoI think we need to be clear about our definitions and our expectations here. To me, a suicide kit is something you find by looking for "suicide kit" AND it is a single item sold for a single purpose. This is important because if we're not strict about that, then there are likely billions of "suicide kits" sold daily on and offline. A knife + any other item is a suicide kit by that definition. So are Caffeine pills or normal salt or wiper fluid or a wood chipper. And that's the problem here: these are random items someone who already wanted to commit suicide might want, but might equality be sought by any reasonable sane person for safe use.
- docdeek 4y agoThe thread addresses this: "(NOTE: the product we’re suing about should not be mistaken for curing salt which is only 6% pure SN and used to cure meats.).
- LatteLazy 4y agoThe thread seems not to know you can (and people often do) home dilute their chemicals. In fact 6% pure salt is actually very high for home curing and will also need to be diluted down to <1% to be used. 6% salt would be toxic if ingested in any real quantity too... The whole thing seems like a lawyer trying to turn a nothing case into something and either being ignorant of the facts or hoping others are...
- asib 4y agoAmazon is recommending 98% pure SN, which the thread says has no use outside a lab. From thread: NOTE: the product we’re suing about should not be mistaken for curing salt which is only 6% pure SN and used to cure meats.
- 10x_contrarian 4y agoThe lawyer's thread is wrong. Sodium nitrate is used in aquariums. I've purchased similar lab-grade chemicals for use in mine.
- CommitSyn 4y agonitrIte, not nitrAte.
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- oulipo 4y agoThis was actually addressed in the article: the product used to cure meat is only 6% pure sodium nitrite. In this case, Amazon was selling a 98% pure sodium nitrite, which has no known household use
- LatteLazy 4y ago6% SN also has no household use. The thread is wrong to imply it does. Curing salt is <1% SN, so either way you need to dilute it.
- 988747 4y agoSo now you get the reason why a person might want to buy 98% pure SN: to have a stockpile that lasts long, just take a bit of SN and dilute it to the required concentration.
- LatteLazy 4y agoExactly. People (I've done it once or twice but I am not super into it) who cure their own meat get quite obsessive about their "recipes" 0.5% or 0.4% or 0.6% SN? Cloves or Nutmeg? etc.
- andrewflnr 4y agoI'm sympathetic to the needs of home chemists, niche as they are, but it's the co-recommendations that really send it over the edge.