Originally Posted by
Seattle Forrest
As far as I know (and someone please correct me if I'm wrong) there's no legitimate evidence that anything sold as food in the first world is harmful to healthy people if you eat it in appropriate amounts. Meat, saccharine, high fructose corn syrup, any GMO product, etc.
I don't necessarily trust that all of the tests have been run, but I do trust that if we figure out something is dangerous, we pull it from the market.
Yes. I think a lot of people hear the message "most people eat too much <insert 'bad' food here>" and assume that means the appropriate amount to eat is none.