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Sugar is as natural as a sweetener gets. It's definitely bad for you, addictive, and all sorts of things, but in small doses...
by INTPenis 3y ago
Sugar is as natural as a sweetener gets. It's definitely bad for you, addictive, and all sorts of things, but in small doses...
- stavros 3y agoWhy is it relevant how natural it is?
- revolvingocelot 3y agoWhy would it not be relevant? Naturally-occurring materials have a much better chance of being biologically uncontroversial when introduced to the human organism -- not that eg cyanogenic glycosides, which can kill you, don't exist in apricots, but some levels of those dangerous compounds can be processed because they've been a component of the natural world for evolutionary time. The idea that modern science, let alone modern-science-as-influenced-by-capitalism, can't properly perceive the consequences of artificial compounds is what TFA is about, and if TFA isn't convincing I invite you to consider PFAS, BPA, or leaded gasoline.