The r/food moderators believe acrylamide (food char) is safe. Auto-moderates dissent to their pseudoscientific perception. Stonewalls, mutes and bans due to dissent. Another default subreddit

23    03 Oct 2021 10:00 by u/wpxb

9 comments

29 u/girlwithswords 03 Oct 2021 15:43
Another way to look at this is.... People don't give a fuck if they are told a little bit of char can contribute to cancer because EVERYTHING around you does the same thing. Ever been to Cali? Everything has stickers that say "Cali identifies this item as having chemicals that can cause cancer." Everything! Better to just enjoy your food and stop worrying about the little things. And I bet the mods see so many people posting about cancer they are sick of it. I would be. If your afraid then don't eat it. Leave other people enjoy their food.
7 u/kkjdroid 03 Oct 2021 17:36
They really need to have levels on those labels. If regularly consuming a given product increases my lifetime risk of cancer by 1%, that's probably enough that I should be informed. If it's 10%, I should seriously consider not using the product. If it's 100%, the product should probably be banned. However, the threshold for the CA labels is one excess case per 100,000 people over a 70-year lifetime, and there's only one level. If one product increases your lifetime risk of cancer by 0.001% and another increases it by 100%, they get the same label. Imagine if a product had a label that said "will definitely get you sick" with no way to tell whether it was the common cold or smallpox. Or "you will definitely be shot" and you don't know if it's a Nerf dart or a cannonball. I did just learn that the same bill prohibits all chemicals on the list from being released into drinking water, though, so kudos to CA for that.
7 u/Cingetorix 03 Oct 2021 22:09
There's a great joke that goes something like "known to the state of cancer to cause California"
20 u/spamyak 03 Oct 2021 11:24
acrylamide forms on starches, not meat
-13 u/wpxb [OP] 03 Oct 2021 11:36
I don’t see anything on google to suggest that it only forms in starchy foods.
16 u/spamyak 03 Oct 2021 12:30
https://www.fda.gov/food/chemical-contaminants-food/acrylamide-questions-and-answers
2 u/BradGroux † 03 Oct 2021 19:00
> Acrylamide is found mainly in foods made from plants, such as potato products, grain products, or coffee. Acrylamide does not form, or forms at lower levels, in dairy, meat, and fish products. Their toilet research is in absolute shambles.
5 u/Kryptosis 03 Oct 2021 16:44
Default subs don’t exist since 2017
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