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http://worldtruth.tv/8-beers-that-you-should-stop-drinking-immediately/
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Does anyone else feel Guinness is being wrongfully targeted here?
Try to stay away from any American beers. Choose organic beer. Beers that contain 100% organic labels, have to have ingredients that are all 100% organic. While an “organic” label just means 95% of it will be organic. European beer is most likely to be safe from GMO ingredients but unfortunately, most other beer contains GMO artificial ingredients, stabilizers, grains and preservatives, plus, HFCS.
Brew your own. You will probably be using GMO grains anyway..... Unless you buy organic and really know the source. Of course that would be very expensive.
Corn is a genetically modified plant, and has been for thousands of years. In fact, corn would not exist without "genetic modification".
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Everything on this list is being wrongfully targeted. It's just another article saying anything with GMOs is poison without providing any form of scientific evidence. Reminds me of the foodbabe article:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/alarmist-article-bmc-no-listed-evidence-but-possible-interesting-points-421992/
probably because it is listed as a source
A great response from brewers about that article seems to apply to most points in this one as well:
http://maureenogle.com/maureen-ogle/2013/08/18/whats-in-your-beer-or-the-dangers-of-dumbassery
http://worldtruth.tv/8-beers-that-you-should-stop-drinking-immediately/
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You worry too much about this stuff and you will spend your days suffering from ulcers.
Brew your own. You will probably be using GMO grains anyway..... Unless you buy organic and really know the source. Of course that would be very expensive.
Who would give ANY credibility to a website article which doesn't even list the author's last name?
Eddie (2091 Posts)
Eddie L. is the founder and owner of WorldTruth.TV. This website is dedicated to educating and informing people with articles on powerful and concealed information from around the world. I have spent the last 30+ years researching Bible, History, Secret Societies, Symbolism
But I guess it is written on the internets so it must be true.
This^
"If you read it on the internet, its 100% true" - Abraham Lincoln
FALSE! He did NOT say that! It was totally Ben Franklin.
This^
"If you read it on the internet, its 100% true" - Abraham Lincoln
Corn is a genetically modified plant, and has been for thousands of years. In fact, corn would not exist without "genetic modification".
You guys really need to read your history. ALL the best and most reliable sources will tell you 150% of the time that the quote came from Julius Caesar
I don't think he really SAID that - I think he only TEXTED it!
Well since Al Gore invented the internet, I would have thought it came from him.
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Who would give ANY credibility to a website article which doesn't even list the author's last name?
Eddie (2091 Posts)
Eddie L. is the founder and owner of WorldTruth.TV. This website is dedicated to educating and informing people with articles on powerful and concealed information from around the world. I have spent the last 30+ years researching Bible, History, Secret Societies, Symbolism
Please explain the difference.
The real concern here is that all of the beers listed contain DHMO. I am taken aback that this reputable news site would not even list it!
"Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl radical, a species shown to mutate DNA, denature proteins, disrupt cell membranes, and chemically alter critical neurotransmitters. The atomic components of DHMO are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol." ~DHMrg
"What are some uses of Dihydrogen Monoxide?"~DHMrg
"in the production of beer by all the major beer distributors"~DHMrg
So there's another fear mongering and inaccurate "What's in your beer" meme being passed around facebook again. This one with the title of "8 beers which you should stop drinking immediately." It's made up of pretty much the same ignorant understanding of beer making and beer ingredients, the consumer laws that ALL brewers have to follow as to what they can or cannot but in their beer (regardless of brewery size) and the same questionable sources such as the Center for Science in the Public interest. It's also based on the FALSE premise that somehow the big Macro breweries use different ingredients than the small independent craft brewers and homebrewers use in their beers. Or are somehow not bound by the same laws as the rest of the brewery industry. So this falsehood feeds even many home/craft beer fans who are biased to think that big beer is "evil" and small brewers are holy.
Last year, author Maureen Ogle, author of "Ambitious Brew: the story of American Beer" and "In meat we trust" asked several professional brewers, and one "lowly" homebrewer (me) to research and write up a rebuttal to these fear based, and ignorant pieces. It was such an honor to be included in the ranks of some of the most talented stars of the professional brewing industry to contribute to such an important work.
In whatever endeavor I'm involved in, be it ministry, or brewing, or cooking, or vintage base ball, I try to impart truth and integrity in what I do. And I try my hardest to know the truth about the things I talk, write or preach about, or else they don't come from me. What I create, I stand behind....Unfortunately not everyone does so, and that's why one of things I have chosen to do is shine the light of truth into the darkness of ignorance and fear. And point out the false hoods when I see them. Sometimes that is the unpopular stance to take.
Friends, not everything you read or pass around is true. And not everything out there, no matter how serious it may sound like, is put together with the best intentions, or from the best sources. These pieces feed into the same anti-science fear and ignorance that many people have, be it on the left or right side of the political spectrum. Both sides have their boogeymen... The Left fears GMO's or anything that sounds artificial or chemical or weird, (forgetting that everything in this universe has a scientific, multi syllable, and scary sounding name) including things that we consume every day such as Dihydrogen Monoxide (the water we drink) or Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda,) and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (the yeast in your bread or your beer.) Or anything that comes from big business. The Right fears evolution, or stem cell research, or climate change. Both sides fear vaccines and floride in drinking water.
All of this feeds into the anti-intellectual fear of science and of big words. And no matter which side you fall on, pieces like foodbabe's and this latest piece of scare mongering feeds on this fear. And sadly feeds what Maureen Ogle so rightly calls the "Dangers of Dumbassery" the blind belief in whatever we read or see, without taking the time to do our own research, to think for ourselves.
I'm not telling you what to believe, or what you should put in your bodies. But before you blindly pass on either of those other pieces, I ask you to first read and consider what we wrote, people who actually make beer, either for a hobby or for a living, people who make 5 gallon batches and 5 million gallon batches for the "Big Boys" and everything in between. People who actually know what goes in the beer you drink, the laws pertaining to the beer you drink, and what things are put in your beer, and what scary sounding things might be a part of the brewing process, that doesn't actually touch the beer (like cooling agents that flow around the OUTSIDE of the tank, that work much like the similar chemicals in the cooling tubes in your car's air conditioning or your own refrigerator.)
I believe that the only way to meet the darkness of ignorance is with the light of truth and the light of knowledge. And this piece we took a month to put together was written for that purpose to shed light where it is darkest.
I guess I really just ask that WHENEVER you see something, especially something "fear mongering" (though you might not see it as that, you might think you're being helpful, but in reality you are sowing fear) that you take the time, even 5 minutes do do a little research on google, or one of the urban legends pages like snopes, to see what the counter arguments are, or what the sources of whatever it is comes from, Or if it's simply a myth or lie.
The world needs your brains, not your button pushing skill. The world needs you spreading light and love, and not fear. The world needs you spreading truth, and not ignorance. The world needs you to make informed decisions, not based on one source. The world needs you to think for yourself.
...as soon as I read the Food Babe's screed, I thought
"Oh, man. I can see it coming: Some brewers might decide to use this kind of crap to score points with consumers and one-up their competition. Result: a purity war erupting in the craft brewing industry. Nothing good can come of this."
Especially because, as I noted above, people who should have known better spread the Food Babe's crap as if it was gospel.
So, meddlesome broad that I am, I reached out to some brewers, both professional and amateur, and asked if they'd help set the record straight. No surprise, given the kind hearts and generosity that are the hallmarks of craft brewing, I got an immediate response. Much of what follows are their responses to the question "What's in Your Beer."
Corn is a genetically modified plant, and has been for thousands of years. In fact, corn would not exist without "genetic modification".
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+1. Every single currently harvested agricultural product has been gentically modified for thousands of years. This guy probably thinks vaccinations cause autism, too.
http://worldtruth.tv/8-beers-that-you-should-stop-drinking-immediately/
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+1. Every single currently harvested agricultural product has been gentically modified for thousands of years. This guy probably thinks vaccinations cause autism, too.
Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification, is the direct manipulation of an organism's genome using biotechnology. New DNA may be inserted in the host genome by first isolating and copying the genetic material of interest using molecular cloning methods to generate a DNA sequence, or by synthesizing the DNA, and then inserting this construct into the host organism. Genes may be removed, or "knocked out", using a nuclease. Gene targeting is a different technique that uses homologous recombination to change an endogenous gene, and can be used to delete a gene, remove exons, add a gene, or introduce point mutations.
Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans breed other animals and plants for particular traits. Typically, strains that are selectively bred are domesticated, and the breeding is normally done by a professional breeder. Bred animals are known as breeds, while bred plants are known as varieties, cultigens, or cultivars. The cross of animals results in what is called a crossbreed, and crossbred plants are called hybrids.
http://worldtruth.tv/8-beers-that-you-should-stop-drinking-immediately/
Does anyone else feel Guinness is being wrongfully targeted here?
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