Making the news today....

[sime42]

2 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

I do a lot of home brewing. Which is why I find your comments comical. 

Of course. 😜

[trigger_andy]

Just now, sime42 said:

Of course. 😜

I’ve a Cali Common and a Belgian “Christmas Mince Pie” Double fermenting right now. 
 

FG on both are down to 1.010SG and ready for bottling. The missus will do that tomorrow. 
 

We’ll wash the yeast on the Cali and re-use it for my next AG brew which will be an American ale. This strain should give a very clean profile which should pair well with the Citra Hops I intend to use. 

[Will C]

18 hours ago, Macpherson said:

 

Well I do know that the sweetener Aspartame was repeatedly denied access to the food chain  until 41 years ago during the Reagan administration the criminal Donald Rumsfeld nobbled the panel of scientists who were preventing this and it flooded in everywhere and into all sorts of products being promoted as 'healthy' or 'diet' what a massive scam on human health.

 

The scientists who were against this in our food had a good reason.. the fact that it caused holes in the brain tissue of the rats they tested it on and the microscope slides of this can/could be viewed with a google... a few years ago so possibly been removed today.

 

Anyway, I have to suspect it's introduction to be a player in dementia, and if you can get through the crap there is a whole list of other disabilities attributed to this poison, but you are right the whole food chain is bastardised, cheers.

We met a scientist once looking at brain tumours, he had no proven evidence (yet but was working towards it) that aspartame was causing brain tumours but could confirm it accelerated there growth massively!

[Steve Bullman]

Aspartame is in loads of stuff. As already mentioned its generally in stuff that is touted as healthy or sugar free.

 

Heres a challenge for you. Next time you're grocery shopping try and find a bottle of squash that doesnt contain Aspartame.

[trigger_andy]

35 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Aspartame is in loads of stuff. As already mentioned its generally in stuff that is touted as healthy or sugar free.

 

Heres a challenge for you. Next time you're grocery shopping try and find a bottle of squash that doesnt contain Aspartame.

We only buy full fat Ribena as a Squash. The apple and orange juice we buy the kids does not have sweeteners added, we check. 

[eggsarascal]

People really don't realise how short of water some parts of the country are, the Southeast needs steady rainfall and quickly. (That's fact, not speculation). There are stoppages all over the canal system due to lack of water. It really isn't 'on tap'.

[sime42]

I heard today that they're struggling in the Rhine Valley. There's a mass of industry along it with a lot of the associated goods and materials shipped in huge barges on the river. The levels are now so low that it's either physically impossible to float some of them or not economically viable because they have to be so lightly loaded.

 

I'm not sure that it's appreciated exactly how much rain is required to bring the system back up to normal levels, both here and on the continent. No doubt certain sections of the press will be screaming to have restrictions lifted as soon as we have even a couple of days of rain.

 

https://www.fm-magazine.com/news/2022/aug/why-low-water-levels-rhine-river-hurt-germanys-economy.html

 

[daveatdave]

19 minutes ago, sime42 said:

I heard today that they're struggling in the Rhine Valley. There's a mass of industry along it with a lot of the associated goods and materials shipped in huge barges on the river. The levels are now so low that it's either physically impossible to float some of them or not economically viable because they have to be so lightly loaded.

 

I'm not sure that it's appreciated exactly how much rain is required to bring the system back up to normal levels, both here and on the continent. No doubt certain sections of the press will be screaming to have restrictions lifted as soon as we have even a couple of days of rain.

 

https://www.fm-magazine.com/news/2022/aug/why-low-water-levels-rhine-river-hurt-germanys-economy.html

 

don't think there will be many barges that will sail in 42 cm of water even empty 

[Macpherson]

11 hours ago, sime42 said:

Talking of Halogens. We'll be getting tasty chlorinated chicken from America soon. Thanks in part I think from good old Liz Truss.

 

I'm not sure that all halogens are bad for us; seaweed is meant to be very healthy because it contains lots of trace elements like Iodine. Maybe the "trace" is the pertinent bit, or perhaps because I is lower down the table, so less reactive.

 

Yes, but the interest in these elements by those who would exploit us is the role that science has found in that they play a part in numbing the intellect and their ability to be used to control a population by creating Dumb cluck indifference.

 

I totally agree that Iodine has a role to play in our biology and were you to cook with seaweed for instance you could provide your body with the source of raw material and rely on it to extract exactly the amount of this that is required...

 

The truth of this is that, as you say, it would be trace.. and that may be only a maybe a couple of ppm as is common  with trace elements but .not flooded in the drinking water.

 

If you think about it, folk put bleach down the toilet to eradicate bacteria and at the same time our drinking water is sterilised with the same stuff which then interacts with the 'necessary' bacteria in our digestive system doing who knows what harm to the intended  operation of the digestive tract .

 

On top of that we let ourselves be persuaded by the toothpaste industry to kill off all of nature in our mouths twice a day creating the dental problems that persist in todays world. 

I know from experimenting on myself that very quickly after stopping using Fluoride toothpaste, my mouth and teeth returned to normal and any plaque for instance was dealt with effectively by the flora in my mouth which I was no longer killing off ...

 

Drinking water can be easily sterilised with UV light and in some places like where I am in NW Scotland it is exposed to this, so why the need Chlorinate or Fluoridate or both ??

 

No brainer.... it kills BIOLOGY ...so ask yourself why when 'we' who are biology have been actively persuaded to consume the stuff for at least 2 generations... cheers.

 

[trigger_andy]

7 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

People really don't realise how short of water some parts of the country are, the Southeast needs steady rainfall and quickly. (That's fact, not speculation). There are stoppages all over the canal system due to lack of water. It really isn't 'on tap'.

Stoppages on the Canal? National emergency right there! 🤣🤣🤣