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"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> On 2016-04-18 10:21 AM, taxed and spent wrote:
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>> I am sure they contain chemicals that, in ridiculously high quantities,
>> will
>> cause cancer in cancer prone rat species.
>>
>> And no doubt they somehow contribute to global warming/climate
>> change/mankind is evil in whatever it does.

>
> I guess that you don't appreciate the value of testing toxicity in
> ingredients and medications as some of us do. Look at the case of
> Thalidomide. It was used in the 1950s and 60s for a variety of problems,
> one of them being morning sickness. It was determined to be the cause of
> thousands of babies being born will malformed or missing limbs. The US FDA
> refused to allow it. While there were more than 10,000 Thalidomide babies
> born in the world, there were less than 2 dozen of them in the US.
>
>


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