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submitted 7 months ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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I've never seen labeling like this before. Interesting.

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[–] 35 points 7 months ago (7 children)

The problem is a lot of nasty things come from less scary sounding things. For example:

Ingredient: Ricin, Where it comes from: Castor beans, What it's used for: Poison.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I assume there's a better example to make your point because at least here you're explicitly stating ricin is used for poison, an objectively good thing to know.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    My point being that knowledge of where something comes from doesn't tell you if it's a good thing or a bad thing.

    I could have rephrased "what it's used for" to be "laxative". A true statement which doesn't expose the fact that ricin is a pretty powerful poison.

    People are biased to think "chemical name bad, common name good" and that's the problem I'm exposing. You can pull out a lot of toxic stuff from things that sound harmless.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    The calculus here isn't strictly whether it's "healthy" or not. There are quite a few ingredients that can be derived from both plants and petroleum, for example, and I would choose the one derived from plants every time

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