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Keep Your Hands Off My Coffee!
One of the smartest decisions that my husband and I ever made was leaving California more than 10 years ago. The state is once again trying to make an obscene intrusion on the lives of Californians, and they are truly insane this time. (Yes, I know they’ve gone insane before, but this one is, for this coffee drinker, over the top.)
According to a WSJ article, California is once again trying to terrify its residents with a cancer fear — for coffee. You see, coffee has acrylamide, a flavorless chemical produced during the roasting process:
Acrylamide is one of more than 900 chemicals on a list of those known to the state of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Businesses must warn about the presence of any of the chemicals under the law, known as Proposition 65.
They don’t mention that this chemical also appears in many baked and fried foods, such as potato chips, bread, and French fries.
A state judge in Los Angeles is supposed to rule in the next few months whether coffee will be labeled a carcinogen.
A retired oncologist in Orange County, CA, Warren Fong, had this to say:
So the only thing safe is boiled or steamed food? That’s ridiculous. You don’t scream warnings at people when the risk is really low and can’t change behaviors.
Ya think?
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Too late their brains are a completely lost cause.
See my latest post . . .
LOL just made a post on it . . .
Paracelsus, whose real name was Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, said in the 16th century, “The poison is in the dose.”
He was murdered. Some things are just too dangerous to know.
I seriously doubt it in this case. Coffee distributors will not denigrate their product nationwide for the sake of California’s regulators. California consumers will pay for special California packaging.
I never saw a PSA (Public Service Announcement) that stated:
“Warning! Resisting arrest could lead to injury due to blunt force trauma, or death due to excessive lead exposure.”
Some dangers are more dangerous than other dangers. Mmmm coffee and donuts.
Now you’re making me hungry, Doug!! Are you buying?
Donuts will kill you, Susan. Coffee…not so much.
Sure, who knew that coffee and donuts would become a political statement?
Oh, but I’ll die with a smile on my face. Chocolate/chocolate, if you please.
I demand Arsenic warning labels on my Apples. Right now.
Fruits and Vegetables may kill me if I eat them.
I just heard Larry David’s daughter making the case against plastic straws and lids on a podcast earlier today. They’re serious!
I can’t wait to see them stamp coffee beans with their carcinogen warning.
Itty bitty font.
On each bean.
Oh. Brother.
I bet they make coffee illegal, then permit it to be sold for medical uses first, then add on recreational use, with a tax to cover the increased costs of coffee related cancer.
On the other hand, I bet no one calculated the unintended consequence of increased in murder and road rage from coffee drinkers experiencing withdrawal…maybe they will do a 180 on a coffee label.
California, where common sense is the only thing illegal.
My favorite donut too!
Weed should help mitigate that.
These people have no life, seriously. The world is filled with so many issues that need attending, and they worry about straws.
Like how many millions of dollars are they spending to “warn” people about all these things that will harm them.
Just one more thing we have in common! Good woman!
If California wanted to put a tax on plastic straws and lids in order to discourage them I wouldn’t object. I wouldn’t object even if my own state did it. I’m not sure it’s the biggest solid waste issue to get all activist about, though.
Deposits on beverage containers have done well around here in keeping them out of our roadside ditches. I’m all for them. What I didn’t like was when, after they were successfully implemented, some self-styled environmental types then demanded that the stores and chains that sold the beverages turn over any unclaimed deposits to their activist groups. They didn’t get them (as far as I know) but it just shows that for some of the loudest of them it’s more about greed than the environment.
I’ve been railing against Hydroxic Acid for years now. Did you know in third world countries we can detect it in every single cell of new born babies!
My guess is that they are looking to apply a “sin tax” on coffee. What better revenue source than a legal, addictive substance that is consumed by the gallon? The state is jealous of Starbuck’s profits: It must be shared!
The state has long demonstrated it doesn’t care about public health. What “sanctuary state” does? So this must be about money.
Not just baby formula, but in milk, vegetables, fruits, meat. We are literally exposed to it every day! And this is the most shocking thing. No manufacturer has to label their product as containing it.
I’ve read that in California a municipality has banned straws. I think we just need to make drinking anything as inconvenient as possible. No more plastic and paper cups either! Everyone just need to drink from a hose attached to a single large carboy filled with de-ionized water supplemented with minerals. The water of course will rainwater so as no to deprive the fish of their precious rivers.
I saw a liberal on Tucker the other night who actually said that we can change human nature. And they call us “science deniers.”
Of course, RA! That’s why they try to take over everyone’s lives because in their utopian view, everyone and everything is perfectible. Maybe they should spend more time working on themselves?
Hey, Starbucks is serving cities across the country!
It espouses popular progressive values and provides plate glass windows for protesters.
I have broken out my crayolas and taken action posing as a Californian: