Guest guest Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 At Tue, 23 May 2006 it looks like Judy Cozza composed: > I personally vote to stay away from peanuts - all kinds. > > I the book THE CHINA STUDY - p. 34 - the author claims that aflatoxin " is > said to be the most potent chemical carcinogen ever discovered. " > > So why play around with it hoping it's not in YOUR peanuts - organic or not. > > Judy Funny, I've read stuff like this before, avoided peanut butter, then get " selective_memory " and find myself with some peanut butter in my mouth. Here is something I was just reading about the above. Thanks Judy for the reminder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aflatoxin -- Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com " If your life was full of nothing but sunshine, you would just be a desert. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 " Virtually all sources of commercial peanut butter contain minute quantities of aflatoxin, but it is usually far below the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) recommended safe level. " Taken from the link Bill posted. Kind of reminds me of the man who put " just a little " dog poop in the brownies. Why would anyone want to eat any at all? It comes back to taste and addictions. I have lost all desire to eat lots of things because I've avoided them for so long. Tommie http://www.rawburchard.blogspot.com rawfood , Bill Schoolcraft <Bill wrote: > > At Tue, 23 May 2006 it looks like Judy Cozza composed: > > > I personally vote to stay away from peanuts - all kinds. > > > > I the book THE CHINA STUDY - p. 34 - the author claims that aflatoxin " is > > said to be the most potent chemical carcinogen ever discovered. " > > > > So why play around with it hoping it's not in YOUR peanuts - organic or not. > > > > Judy > > Funny, I've read stuff like this before, avoided peanut butter, then > get " selective_memory " and find myself with some peanut butter in my > mouth. Here is something I was just reading about the above. > > Thanks Judy for the reminder > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aflatoxin > > -- > Bill Schoolcraft | http://wiliweld.com > > " If your life was full of nothing but > sunshine, you would just be a desert. " > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 Way to go Tommie! Great analogy - never heard that one before. It was always the " cockroach " in the taco........hahahahah. I'll have to use the dog poop from now on.....hahahahah. BUT come on - this is what caught my eye from Bill's article - never mind FDA " stating " it's a safe level " . Bill's article said: " In 1989, Saddam Hussein <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein>ordered the government of Iraq <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq> to begin production of aflatoxin as an economic biological/chemical weapon. The methods used by Iraqi scientists at the Salman Pak facility<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Pak_facility>were crude; *Aspergillus* was grown on wet rice and the final product was reportedly highly impure. According to UNSCOM <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNSCOM>estimations, 2200 L of aflatoxin were produced. Some of this material was reportedly loaded into missiles, though this allegation has never been proven as no aflatoxin was found after the 2003 invasion of Iraq<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq>by the United States <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States>. The presumption is that the aflatoxin was destroyed.1 " <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aflatoxin#References> It proves to me again........... " I'll pass on the peanuts " . Judy On 5/23/06, Tommie <jerushy wrote: > > " Virtually all sources of commercial peanut butter contain minute > quantities of aflatoxin, but it is usually far below the US Food and > Drug Administration's (FDA) recommended safe level. " Taken from the > link Bill posted. > > Kind of reminds me of the man who put " just a little " dog poop in the > brownies. Why would anyone want to eat any at all? It comes back to > taste and addictions. I have lost all desire to eat lots of things > because I've avoided them for so long. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 23, 2006 Report Share Posted May 23, 2006 There are lots of reasons not to eat them other than people who are allergic can die. The analogy comes from a father who was objecting to his teenagers going to see a movie that was okay except for just a little nudity and bad language--not enough to make the movie " bad " to see. They kept begging until he was about at his wit's end to know how to get his point across. He decided he would make some of his famous brownies as a treat. Before they ate them, he told them there was just a little additional ingredient this time. Not much. Not enough that they would be able to taste it. They wanted to know what it was and when he told them it was dog poop from the back yard, they wanted nothing to do with the brownies. He kept urging them and said it wasn't enough to spoil the whole batch. They still wouldn't eat them but they realized what he was getting at. They didn't say any more about the movie. Personally, I would have thrown the brownies away along with anything they had touched. Tommie http://www.rawburchard.blogspot.com rawfood , " Judy Cozza " <judycozza wrote: > > Way to go Tommie! Great analogy - never heard that one before. It was > always > the " cockroach " in the taco........hahahahah. > I'll have to use the dog poop from now on.....hahahahah. > > BUT come on - this is what caught my eye from Bill's article - never mind > FDA " stating " it's a safe level " . > > Bill's article said: > > " In 1989, Saddam Hussein > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein>ordered the government of > Iraq <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq> to begin production of aflatoxin as > an economic biological/chemical weapon. The methods used by Iraqi scientists > at the Salman Pak > facility<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Pak_facility>were crude; > *Aspergillus* was grown on wet rice and the final product was reportedly > highly impure. According to UNSCOM > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNSCOM>estimations, 2200 L of aflatoxin > were produced. Some of this material was > reportedly loaded into missiles, though this allegation has never been > proven as no aflatoxin was found after the 2003 invasion of > Iraq<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq>by the United > States <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States>. The presumption is that > the aflatoxin was > destroyed.1 " <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aflatoxin#References> > > > > It proves to me again........... " I'll pass on the peanuts " . > > Judy > > > On 5/23/06, Tommie <jerushy wrote: > > > > " Virtually all sources of commercial peanut butter contain minute > > quantities of aflatoxin, but it is usually far below the US Food and > > Drug Administration's (FDA) recommended safe level. " Taken from the > > link Bill posted. > > > > Kind of reminds me of the man who put " just a little " dog poop in the > > brownies. Why would anyone want to eat any at all? It comes back to > > taste and addictions. I have lost all desire to eat lots of things > > because I've avoided them for so long. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 24, 2006 Report Share Posted May 24, 2006 natures first law has organic wild peanuts with no aflatoxin MrandMrsM <tdbmgroups wrote: I was just telling a friend about this mold/aflotoxin problem with peanuts and she told me she thought that organic peanuts didn't have that problem. Can anyone enlighten me on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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