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To: Scythian

Yuck. I wonder if the Burger King veggie burger has hexane in it? I just had one for lunch.

Practically everything we eat or drink seems to be laced with chemicals, additives, solvents, pesticides, hormones, etc. Whether you are a vegetarian or meat eater you are being exposed to environmental contamination. That’s just life. Unless you raise your foodstuffs organically you don’t know what you are consuming.


5 posted on 05/20/2009 12:32:40 PM PDT by deannadurbin
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To: deannadurbin

If you put a match to your veggie burger and it bursts into flames, then it has too much hexane in it. ;-)

FWIW, and IMHO there is no such thing a human-digestible “all natural” soy protein. Kidney beans, pinto beans, string beans etc, sure — but not SOY beans.


26 posted on 05/20/2009 12:40:46 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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To: deannadurbin

A veggie burger is going to consist of processed foods. It doesn’t take as much adulteration to grind up cow or buffalo or even turkey and mold it into a patty. But veggies are quicker to go to “paste” form than “burger”.


27 posted on 05/20/2009 12:41:35 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (If you like the Dept. of Motor Vehicles, the IRS, and the Post Office, you'll love govt Health Care)
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To: deannadurbin

Nope, I’m wrong. You CAN produce digestible proteins from soy beans.

My bad!


39 posted on 05/20/2009 12:47:50 PM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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To: deannadurbin
What's the saying--the poison is in the dose, i.e. 21ppm (parts per million) of hexane is probably not going to affect you now or ever.

The obvious solution is to declare hexane to be "natural" (isn't everything natural?) and be done with the hysteria.

76 posted on 05/20/2009 1:14:08 PM PDT by randog (Tap into America!)
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To: deannadurbin

My rule-of-thumb is that the newer and more exotic the process, the more likely you don’t want to know how it’s done....

hh


87 posted on 05/20/2009 1:20:41 PM PDT by hoosier hick ((I'm back to..) Note to RINOs: We need a choice, not an echo. (Barry Goldwater))
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To: deannadurbin

Maybe that’s why one their commercials has flames coming out of a man’s mouth after he eats one.


122 posted on 05/20/2009 3:38:38 PM PDT by madameguinot (Our Father's God to Thee, Author of Liberty)
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