"Teen vegan fights big corporations"

[Anonymous No.5416831]

"Fat girl gets an ingredient replaced in a soft drink"

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27300185

[Borneo No.5416843]

cool, I learnt a new word today

thanks OP

[Anonymous No.5416850]

>>5416831
I've been drinking powerade and gatorade growing up.

Am i fucked?

[Anonymous No.5416851]

>>5416850
Yes, the flame retardant has made you a flaming retard.

You're gay and stupid.

[Anonymous No.5416856]

>brominated vegetable oil
Geeks strike back against the bros.

[Anonymous No.5416891]

>>5416831
>As a vegan she was upset by her discovery.
non vegans are okay with poisons in their drinks?

[Anonymous No.5416892]

>>5416851

[Anonymous No.5416897]

>>5416831
>the thing used to keep citrus flavorings suspended in the drink
>get rid of it

no
fuck you
i like my Gamer Fuel ™

[Anonymous No.5416913]

>>5416891
>would drink a shitty beverage like that anyway
>thinking it's not poison in itself

Joke's on you nigger.

[Anonymous No.5416919]

>>5416851
>http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27300185

[Anonymous No.5416920]

>>5416856
id wager its referring to bromine or bromide

[Anonymous No.5416948]

>>5416891
how many people do you see dying from gatorade poisoning?

[Anonymous No.5416957]

>>5416920
I thought maybe it was referring to oil that had been used for broasting

[Anonymous No.5416958]

You mean the stuff that looks like a cocaine addicts urine is actually unhealthy? Hey how about that.

[Anonymous No.5416969]

>>5416831
I have this twitch reflex to say something really mean but I'm just going to let it go and hope this child makes something of herself unlike the majority of people that live in her state.

[Anonymous No.5416971]

>>5416958
1/10
>>5416831
>putting words in quotations that were never actually said in the article
why is everyone here so fucking stupid

[Anonymous No.5416984]

>>5416957
that picture

is it a pizza hut or a chicken place

[Anonymous No.5416987]

>>5416971
It's actually "Fat googles something, finds out it's not that good for you, googles petition.org, starts petition and takes credit for ingredient change"

But we could all just be nice and let her think she did it.

[Anonymous No.5417004]

>>5416831

>needing a gatorade after fucking throwing a frisbee for 5 minutes

[Anonymous No.5417008]

>>5416987
0/10
you're neither funny nor clever

[Anonymous No.5417014]

>>5416971
Which words weren't in the article? The quote in my actual post? Well
>no shit
I was summing up the article in a sarcastic way.

The quote in the subject field was the title of the article in the BBC newsfeed

[Anonymous No.5417025]

>>5417008
It's the truth. Most often it is not funny or clever.

It just is.

[Anonymous No.5417028]

>>5417014
>thinking sarcasm is funny
are you a 13 year old girl?

[Anonymous No.5417029]

Is there any objective scientific evidence that this is actually bad for you?

CNN, in classic CNN style, kept parroting "IT'S ALSO USED IN FLAME RETARDANTS!" But fuck, water is used in all kinds of stuff that is terrible for you.

[Anonymous No.5417036]

>>5416843
hahaha I looked up the same word.

Anyway I don't see how this isn't a good thing. Way to go, random teenager.

[Anonymous No.5417038]

>>5417028
Hey now. I know you're upset that you misunderstood the post and couldn't detect obvious sarcasm, but I have no problem with you.

In fact, I love you. There, I said it.

So can we just talk about how this overweight vegan child got into the news and is being hailed a hero because she got a stabilizer replaced in a sugary soft drink?

[Anonymous No.5417047]

>>5417038
In fact, what does it matter that she's a vegan? It has nothing to do with what happened.

"Homosexual senior citizen stops burglary"

"Slightly taller than average Japanese man volunteers at local shelter"

[Anonymous No.5417048]

>>5417038
>picking on people who are trying to make a positive change in the world while your fat ass sits behind a computer screen, projecting about how much of a loser she is because of how she looks
>meanwhile in Canada BVO is still allowed to be used in food
why don't you just kill yourself instead?

[Anonymous No.5417052]

>>5417029
I think there's only been one case of BVO poisoning and it came from a person that drank gallons of soda a day.

[Anonymous No.5417059]

>>5417048
>picking on people who are trying to make a positive change in the world

Not that guy, but we have yet to establish she has made any sort of positive change.

[Anonymous No.5417060]

>>5417048
I don't think she's a loser, I just think it's sad people think petition.org actually does anything.

[Anonymous No.5417065]

>>5417048
>picking on people who are trying to make a positive change in the world while your fat ass sits behind a computer screen, projecting about how much of a loser she is because of how she looks

>implying getting positive attention for the vegan diet when it hasn't done anything to do with this story is a good thing

>implying a bunch of (possibly overweight vegan children) people won't think gatorade is now a health drink and drink it like water

>implying i'm fat and don't make attempts to teach people moderation and how to be healthy without trying to get attention for separate, unrelated causes and myself

>implying i called her a loser and that being overweight isn't a health issue

One case reported that a man who consumed two to four liters of a soda containing BVO on a daily basis experienced memory loss, tremors, fatigue, loss of muscle coordination, headache, and ptosis of the right eyelid, as well as elevated serum chloride.

>consumes 2-4 liters of soda, per day
>health issues
>it's the BVO

[Anonymous No.5417068]

>>5417060
>as of May 4th, 2014, Coca Cola and PepsiCo have removed BVO from their products
stop posting, retard.

[Anonymous No.5417075]

>>5417068
Can you prove that petition.org had anything to do with it? I mean I know you're all hard up white knighting some hick vegan but come on man, it's beyond the pale if you think something like petition.org can actually do anything.

[Anonymous No.5417082]

>>5417052
> "They use Mountain Dew specifically as a beverage to keep them awake—and they hardly eat anything," Vorhees said.

>When a person doesn't eat during one of these binges, his or her body is absorbing the entire beverage. It's even worse in kids, Vorhees said, because they have less body mass.

Yes, I'm sure removing BVO will make them healthier :^)

[Anonymous No.5417085]

>>5417075
>posting a single fact is now known as white knighting
>implying hundreds of thousands of unsatisfied customers won't cause a company to change what they do
stop trying. it's astounding how people like you can be so stupid.

>i'm attacking a news article with opinions that i've formed with zero informative background am i patrician yet guyz?

[Anonymous No.5417093]

>>5417085
Hey man keep attacking me if it makes you feel better, you sound like you really need an outlet for all the pent up rage inside of you.

It's okay buddy, this retard is here for you.

[Anonymous No.5417097]

>>5417093
>can't think of a single informative comeback
>can't prove anything he's saying to try to make himself look cool in front of anonymoose
>still posting
you got told and you're still projecting, congratulations on being a mouthbreather

[Anonymous No.5417105]

>>5417097
Just let it all out.

...and Occupy Wallstreet was a successful protest movement. Shhhh, I know. Democracy and free speech work. Yes, it's gonna be okay.

[Anonymous No.5417109]

>>5417105
i've never seen someone put so much effort into being a faggot

[Anonymous No.5417121]

>>5417117
here comes the damage control
why so asspained

[Anonymous No.5417123]

>>5417109
>implying it takes effort

I think I love you.

[Anonymous No.5417129]

>>5416984
You're a moron. The Pizza Hut is obviously next door, and it's their window.

[Anonymous No.5417149]

>>5416831
>http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27300185

>PepsiCo replaced brominated vegetable oil in Gatorade with another substance

>doesn't list said substance

It could be arsenic and we'd never know.
(I'm being facetious but the point still stands.)

[Anonymous No.5417156]

>>5416831
Isn't BVO already illegal in the EU?

It's plausible that PepsiCo was already considering the formula change, her petition probably made them push the agenda forward.

[Anonymous No.5417158]

>>5417029
100% of people who ingest dihydrogen monoxide die.

[Anonymous No.5417202]

>>5416851

[Anonymous No.5417487]

>>5416831
another fucking attack on BVO, a novel substance which works perfectly with no known side effects in humans. has been in use for a century without harm. the only people who can get sick are people who consume several liters per day, each day, for a considerable period of time. boy, what a danger.

[Anonymous No.5417511]

>look at my can of Vanilla Coke I just finished
>no mention of BVO
Is it considered a "natural flavor"?

[Anonymous No.5417539]

>>5417511

no it's always labeled. it's used for citrus drinks to keep the natural citrus oils from settling.

e.g. mountain dew has citrus oils and it looks perfectly cloudy and uniform.

orangina doesn't use BVO and it looks like someone shat in the bottle.

[Anonymous No.5418168]

>>5416948
the thing is that all these poisons in our foods kill us slowly with health problems that could have been avoided.

[Anonymous No.5418174]

>>5417004
>not just drinking some water with no fluoride and eating a banana.

[Anonymous No.5418179]

>>5417158
water? you can't trick us with that one again, you monster.

[Anonymous No.5418181]

>>5417487
>defending things that should never belong in the human body

>>5417539
obviously doesn't look like poop in a bottle, you just can't handle a drink not being perfect.

[Anonymous No.5418187]

>>5418174
>still believing that fluoridated water is bad

[Anonymous No.5418196]

>>5418187
>shilling this hard

[Anonymous No.5418199]

>>5418196
they aren't shilling that hard dummy, its quite pathetic.

[Anonymous No.5418285]

>>5418196

>implying you know what shilling means

[Anonymous No.5418304]

>>5418285
>implying you know what implying means

[Anonymous No.5418680]

>>5418187
>>5418196
>>5418199
>>5418285
>>5418304

[Anonymous No.5418906]

>>5418680
some government shill troll was trying to trick everyone into thinking fluoride was just fine and dandy, SCREW THEM. not shit posting, TRUTH POSTING FOR THE FUTURE,

[Anonymous No.5419015]

>said the company would stop using brominated vegetable oil and replace it with sucrose acetate isobutyrate or glycerol ester of rosin
Well, thank goodness for that.
>the substance was used to stop flavourings in drinks from separating
Lel, I love this kind of thing. This is why people deserve all the cancer they get. They'd rather drink a
>chemical that companies patented as a flame retardant
than have their sugar water look a little icky or gross.
>ewww why is my beverage a little cloudy?
>I hope they don't expect me to have to shake my drink a little fml

[Anonymous No.5419040]

Wow, a fat vegan. Imagine how much that cow has to eat to be a fat vegan. I've seen fat vegetarians, but a fat vegan is really something.

[Anonymous No.5419046]

>>5419040
>bitch drinks gatorade often enough she feels need to start petition to have ingredients changed
The fuck are you thinking?

[Anonymous No.5419064]

>>5419040
Lots if fat vegans in the world anon.
San Francisco is rife with them.

[Anonymous No.5419067]

>>5419040
Most vegans I've seen are fat. They usually end up living on pasta and canned sauce.

[Anonymous No.5419070]

>>5418181
It's called denial and cognitive dissonance. Deep down, somewhere, they fear their addiction to diet soda, or whatever, is destroying their health and indeed bad for them so they must convince themselves that the companies selling them these chemicals would never lie to them or harm them and that they are completely safe. And then they accuse those who might doubt or question, and be skeptic of, an entity whose sole purpose is to generate more profit, and those who might protect them and their interests, of being the credulous ones.

[Anonymous No.5419073]

>>5419040
>>5419064
>>5419067
You ever and stop and think maybe they became vegans BECAUSE they were fat?

[Anonymous No.5419077]

>>5417149
Read the article retard.

[Anonymous No.5419091]

>>5416891
As a vegan, she was upset with vegetable oil being in her drink?

What the fuck is she pissed off about vegetable oil for?

[Anonymous No.5419098]

>>5419091
She was pissed off because it was brominated vegetable oil, you megalotard. If you couldn't figure that out on your own, why the fuck are you on websites that require reading?

[Anonymous No.5419099]

>>5416831

I have no problem with this. that shit is toxic and should not be in the food supply.

she should have targeted bread makers too. they use a form of bromine in corporate bread recipes.

[Anonymous No.5419101]

>vegan texan
Is that like a moderate /pol/ack?

[Anonymous No.5419103]

>>5419091

She's upset that it's brominated vegetable oil. It's not the oil, it's the bromine. Which is toxic.

[Anonymous No.5419107]

>>5419101
im a moderatly /pol/ish

[Anonymous No.5419111]

>>5417539

its actually more about appearance. the brominated vegetable oil is what makes orange soda cloudy in appearance. you can't see through it.

what's more important, taste or aesthetics?

I opt for taste.

[Anonymous No.5419124]

>>5419099
>>5419101
>>5417029
>>5417052
>>5417082
>>5417539
>>5419103
>quenching your thirst with vegetable oil
>any kind

>>5419111
>what's more important, taste or aesthetics?
health

[Anonymous No.5419155]

>>5419124
>ALMOST 100%
>no real stats
>hates fun
kill yourself

[Anonymous No.5419168]

>>5419155
>hates fun
Because I don't drink vegetable oil?

[Anonymous No.5420678]

>>5419070
10/10 screamer of the truth.

[Anonymous No.5420682]

>>5419099
don't forget the azodicarbonamide.

[Anonymous No.5420698]

>>5420682
>be jewish
>want to get some challa bread for blessing
>want to get some wine for blessing too
>salt

>challa full of additives and azodicarbonamide
>wine full of corn syrup, only has sugar cane sugar on passover, same as coke conspiracy
>salt has yellow prussiate of soda and dextrose

WHY, SERIOUSLY WHY.

[Anonymous No.5421097]

>>5420698
oy vey every time.

[Anonymous No.5421108]

Mmmmm its good for u because Monsanto engineered it with luv!!!!
Lulz

[Anonymous No.5421110]

>"I was like, 'Uh-oh,'" she says.
If I was being interviewed by a newspaper, I'd be a bit more eloquent.

[Anonymous No.5421123]

I mean, there's nothing wrong with what she did, but shouldn't the stupid cunt be writing to the government to have them ban the oil rather than asking the company to change their recipe?

If she petitioned the government then it's a good step in a healthier direction (ironic, since gatorade is not involved in a healthy diet), but petitioned the company is like saying "I'm a fat cunt and I want to keep being a fat cunt and drink 93 bottles of gatorade per day, so please change your recipe to make me happy."

[Anonymous No.5421259]

>>5421123

its in diet soda too

[Anonymous No.5421273]

>>5420698
I think about this all the time. Shouldn't religious dietary laws be updated to reflect modern diet? I thought the whole point was that the body is the temple and god wants us to keep it pure. I mean, you can't eat pork or catfish but flame retardants and bleaching agents are ok?
>mfw

[Anonymous No.5421277]

>>5421110
>Teen

[Anonymous No.5421279]

>>5421277
>fat teen who looks like she runs a feminist blog and uses words like "fat-shaming" and "privilege" on a daily basis

[Anonymous No.5421294]

>>5420698
>>salt has yellow prussiate of soda and dextrose
Umm, that's why you're supposed to get the kosher one?

[Anonymous No.5421307]

>>5421273
BROFIST HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel the exact same way! we should find out how to make a difference or something. NO SARCASM. can we start up a bunch of polls and petitions and send it to Israel and get all the Hebrew people active about it?

[Anonymous No.5421313]

>>5421294
I'm just saying, theres all this crazy junk in our salt, you think that salt, the thing that has itself been used as a preservative for thousands of years, needs dextrose and other crap in it?

salt already has SALT in it! it can preserve itself as long as its in a dry container meant for salt!

there is absolutely no excuse at all for their being anything other than salt in salt at the store or in your home unless you do something intentionally otherwise.

they are replacing .01% of every contain of salt sold with additives that are .01% cheaper than the salt that would have been in its place in a 100% salt only container of salt.

all those .02% of a penny add up over time as lots of salt is sold, screwing the customer over and saving the company a few million every now and then. read your ingredient labels on any and every food you eat if you don't already, you all must be aware of the junk that is going on!

[Anonymous No.5421328]

>>5421313
Salt usually has iodine added in the form of potassium iodide, dextrose serves as a stabilizing agent for the iodide, without it the iodine would be lost. Prussiate of soda is an anti-caking agent required by picky faggots that don't know to keep their salt in a dry environment, but don't know what to do with clumps in the salt either. Blame the faggots, not the industry for this one.

[Anonymous No.5421331]

>>5421313
I agree with you 100%. And they get away with it because like this post >>5419015 points out, people would prefer buying the salt that doesn't get a little caked up after a while (god forbid you have to shake a little) with that .01 anti-caking agent (totally safe right, why would they sell it if it wasn't?). I mean, it's not like salt isn't a fucking rock, that comes from the ground. What a species we have evolved into, our own lackadaisical conveniences will be our undoing.

[Anonymous No.5421421]

>>5421328
who in the world ever asked for people to put iodine in their salt!? I know about iodized salt, thanks for the info though.

people are so backwards, NO I WONT EAT A HEALTHY DIET! but put it in my SALT.

>>5421331
my bro... what will we do to fix the world? or how can we leave and build a better one?

[Anonymous No.5421431]

>>5421421
>who in the world ever asked for people to put iodine in their salt!?
For a lot of people it's actually the only available source of iodine.

[Anonymous No.5421434]

>Not buying chunks of salt and putting them in a grinder with black peppercorns

[Anonymous No.5421449]

>>5421431
list of foods with iodine:
>Potatoes with the skin on
>Dried Seaweed
>Himalayan pink salt (comes already with iodine in nature)
>Prunes
>Navy Beans
>Eggs
>Bananas
>strawberries
>Corn
>Cranberries
>Green Beans
>Sea vegetables

I am Not a doctor. Ask your doctor before doing anything.

[Anonymous No.5421450]

>>5421434
>needs more pepper
>also adds more salt
>now too much salt
>need to add something else to compensate
>pull out the potato grinder
>add some freshly ground potato
>also had baking soda in it
>OOPS

[Anonymous No.5421462]

>>5421449
>Potatoes with the skin on
>Prunes
>Navy Beans
>Bananas
>strawberries
>Corn
>Cranberries
>Green Beans
Only if the plant in question was grown on iodine-rich soil, and that's only close to the sea. Locally grown (cheaper) produce in many parts of the world doesn't contain sufficient iodine.

>Himalayan pink salt (comes already with iodine in nature)
How is it different than salt with added iodine?

>Eggs
Only if the hens eat a diet with enough iodine, again, depends on their food source and is usually supplemented.

>Dried Seaweed
>Sea vegetables
Really not widely available.

It's easier for you to find kosher salt than it is for them to buy naturally iodine-rich food.

[Anonymous No.5421466]

>>5421421
It's the same thing with cereal and milk. And enriched flours. They have to spray everything with vitamins. If it weren't for that most Americans wouldn't get any nutrients at all.

[Anonymous No.5421467]

>>5421462
>"Only if the plant in question was grown on iodine-rich soil, and that's only close to the sea."

(cootooton noodood)

>Himalayan pink salt (comes already with iodine in nature)"How is it different than salt with added iodine?"

no citation for this one, supposedly the iodine thats added to salt isn't an active form of it. its like all the synthetic vitamins they add to milkshakes and cereal to "enrich" it.

>"It's easier for you to find kosher salt than it is for them to buy naturally iodine-rich food."

possibly. the system isn't good enough and needs improvement. also anybody (who isn't allergic to sea plants) could ask their doctor if its ok for them to order some powdered spirulina or sea weed, kelp, and many other things online to receive in the mail.

I make smoothies with blueberries and kelp plenty.

[Anonymous No.5421468]

>>5421466
wow, I just mentioned this. hivemind?
>>5421467

[Anonymous No.5421471]

>>5421466
its what plants crave

[Anonymous No.5421481]

>>5416851

[Anonymous No.5421538]

>>5416843
you've never read a book in you life, have you?
>what is don quixote?

[Anonymous No.5421541]

>>5417047
Homosexual don't stop buggary

[Anonymous No.5421549]

>>5421538
Exactly what I wondered. Not like Cervantes is new and emerging.

[Anonymous No.5421555]

>>5421450
Ahahaha
Touche
Thanks for the laugh

[Anonymous No.5421586]

>>5421555
:D

[Anonymous No.5421665]

>>5416851

[Anonymous No.5424163]

The reason why it's mentioned she's vegan in the article is because AS A VEGAN SHE MADE SURE TO TELL THEM AT LEAST A DOZEN TIMES