re is msg sensitivity superstition have you ever met a chemist a food industry businessman you must personally know a lot of them for you to be able to be so certain that they are evil mosters whose only goal is to inflict as much pain and disease as possible into the general public gimme a break in article apr rtsg mot com lundby rtsg mot com walter f l undby writes is there such a thing as msg monosodium glutamate sensitivity superstition anybody here have experience to the contrary person who is very sensitive to msg and whose wife and kids are too i want to know why the food industry wants to put msg in food because it makes the food taste better why does it put salt in food same reason i really don t understand obviously somebody in the industry give me some reasons why is it an industrial byproduct that needs getting get rid of of course not although i would think that a person like you would be a big fan of such recycling if that were the case is it to cover up the fact that the recipes are not very good or the food is poor quality on occasion that s probably the case but in general the idea is that msg improves the flavor of certain foods do some of you get a sadistic pleasure out of making some of us sick no do the taste testers have some defect in their flavor sensors mouth etc that msg corrects no i really don t understand obviously also nitrosiamines sp as i recall these are natural by products of heating up certain foods they don t put it in there have a number of criteria in choosing how to process food they want to make it taste good look good sell for a good price etc the fact that they use it tells me that they think that it contributes to those goals they are interested in one of those goals is not making people sick such a goal woud quickly drive them out of business and for no benefit i think outlaw the use of these substances without warning labels as large as those on cig packages warning of what in california there is a law requiring that anything which contains a carcinogen be labeled that includes every gasline pump most foods and even money cleaning machines because nickel is a mild carcinogen the result is that now nobody pays any attention to any of the warnings require of comparable products on the market to be free of these substances and state that they are free of msg dyes nitrosiamines and sulfites on the package why what if not of people wanted to buy this ugly rotten not as tasty food i guess it will just be wasted huh how terribly efficient while at it outlaw yellow dye for that matter why dye food because it makes food look better i like food that looks good if vitamin companies want to do that it is fine but who are you to tell them how to make vitamins who are you to tell me whether i should buy flavored vitamins for my kids who can t swallow the conventional ones whole keep food food quit putting in junk how do you define junk is putting salt in food bad what about pepper what about alcohol as a preservative what about sealing jars with wax what about vinegar you seem to think that chemicals are somehow different than food the fact is that all foods are chemicals you are just expressing an irrational prejudice against food processing brian
