One of the funniest thing I heard was an incident told to me by a recently divorced woman who was taking her 11 year old son to the social services worker on a weekly basis for about 3 months. The topic of the visits had to do with the well being of her son and daughters (her 2 very young daughters went too but they didn’t know what was going on) after witnessing some arguments and fighting between their parents over the years up until they were divorced. I knew these kids and there was nothing wrong with them except maybe they didn’t like to be advised too much which ruined there plans for fun. All kids are like that. Anyway, all the kids were allowed to do at these boring sessions was to sit and listen and at the end of the sessions on the last day , the worker asked if the son had anything to say urging him. He let go with, “fukin’ bunch a shit” and a few more ripe expletives and then fell quite just sitting there. The mother and social worker were stunned for a few seconds with the worker finally asking, “was that for me or you?”
no one wants to think about those things which the words represent
…why can’t the words just stand or fall on their own? Perhaps because words are supposed to be direct indicators of what we know and what we know has a strong impact on what we experience and experiences are big enough things to be affected when thought about. So we pick and choose the words that fit our predilections thereby distorting reality simply because we don’t want to know anything as it is.
That is simply not true. There is plenty of glutamate in our food.
When MSG is put into an aqueous solution, it forms glutamate and a free sodium ion.
That is why we have the taste receptor for it. And it does go directly into the bloodstream, whether it is from an animal or from a bacterium. No difference.
Now, glutamate that is bound up in a protein acts differently. But that isn’t what we are talking about.
Check out the glutamate levels in these high umami foods:
umamiinfo.com/umami-rich_food/
Same thing as MSG.
That website is clearly run by the food industry, what do you expect them to say about their own products?
Do some looking around, there is a lot of info. There are several doctors who have done research on MSG and Aspartame, documenting their excitotoxic properties. I linked you to several websites, which it seems you choose to ignore. But I encourage you to read the industry’s own words with scepticism, and look around on your own.
MSG is not natural glutamate. It is free glutamic acid bound to sodium. Free glutamic acid does not occur in nature - the amino acid forms part of a protein chain, it does not just hang out in food. There is a difference. As well as a difference in how MSG is manufactured and synthesized artificially, as I mentioned previously.
If you find fault with the info I sent you, please show where that fault lies. If you disagree with the scientific research I pointed you to, please show how it is flawed - instead of merely linking me to a food industry website. The harms of the food industry, USDA, FDA are fairly well documented in general, and you ought not to trust what you read on their websites, they have a huge interest in making you think a certain thing about their products. If you would like I can give you some sources and documentaries which catalogue these sorts of deceptions and harmful practices of the industry and the USDA/FDA, let me know if youre interested.
That is not true. In Finland all alcohol over 4% or so is sold by the state in state run shops. They have or had until the EU some of the strictest laws. I think this is down to culture, both societies are fairly closed and booze is one way for people to loosen up. Also neither countries have a culture in which beer is seen as something to drink while talking with friends. Instead people have the intention beforehand to get drunk before even going outside.
As to censorship, could it be that the educated people did not want to talk like the uneducated and so used their mental powers to come up with other words to replace them. As always people followed them and they just became self-censored? Censorship is used to serve those above, so nudity and religion are linked etc… Now education is no longer seen as something to aspire too, the use of these words becomes more accepted.
Your cites don’t suggest that free glutamate isn’t found in those foods, just that free glutamate can be toxic. That is something different.
jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/130/4/915S
Would be a good place to look. Note the free glutamate content in Table 2.