Chemical "illiteracy" and the press.
Sure, I can understand not wanting to down nasty chemicals. But what I cannot stand are the principles commonly used by the "press"(and that includes associated content bitches who just don't know their shit"). Those principles are "you use them for other purposes that are aesthetically nauseating" and "they come from nasty sounding sources".
Wikipedia is more reliable that batshit journalists like the following
Pink Slime and Other Weird Food Additives You Don't Know You're Eating - International Business Times
Silicon dioxide is that wonderful thing that can take on many forms. It can harm you physically, but that depends on its structure and size(i.e glass, sand, quartz). When it's small and produced properly, it just gets pooped out. It hardly reacts chemically with anything.
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Virtuosity remembered, douchebaggery forgotten.
The ideal character profile shoved down modern Western men and women's throats is
Don Juan.