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muffin
9th February 2012, 07:34 PM
http://www.naturalnews.com/032718_L-cysteine_commercial_bread.html

If you read the ingredients label on a loaf of bread, you will usually find an ingredient listed there as L-cysteine. This is a non-essential amino acid added to many baked goods as a dough conditioner in order to speed industrial processing. It’s usually not added directly to flour intended for home use, but you’ll find it throughout commercial breads such as pizza dough, bread rolls and pastries.

While some L-cysteine is directly synthesized in laboratories, most of it is extracted from a cheap and abundant natural protein source: human hair. The hair is dissolved in acid and L-cysteine is isolated through a chemical process, then packaged and shipped off to commercial bread producers. Besides human hair, other sources of L-cysteine include chicken feathers, duck feathers, cow horns and petroleum byproducts.

Most of the hair used to make L-cysteine is gathered from the floors of barbershops and hair salons in China, by the way.

While the thought of eating dissolved hair might make some people uneasy, most Western consumers ultimately have no principled objections doing so. For Jews and Muslims, however, hair-derived L-cysteine poses significant problems. Muslims are forbidden from eating anything derived from a human body, and many rabbis forbid hair consumption for similar reasons. Even rabbis who permit the consumption of hair would forbid it if it came from corpses — and since much L-cysteine comes from China, where sourcing and manufacturing practices are notoriously questionable, this is a real concern. In one case, a rabbi forbade the consumption of L-cysteine because the hair had been harvested during a ritual at a temple in India.

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zap
9th February 2012, 07:38 PM
Oh for Christ Sakes Muffy!

ximmy
9th February 2012, 07:40 PM
african americans are common ingredients in commercials

muffin
9th February 2012, 07:54 PM
Oh for Christ Sakes Muffy!

well, shit. i told my sister about the pink paste that they call hamburger meat the other day. so she calls me tonight to tell me about the hairy bread....

edit: btw, i have a hat to send to you. i'm tryin like hell to finish another one but i'm feeling very "un-knitty" like lately...

MNeagle
9th February 2012, 07:56 PM
lol! You two are cracking me up!

zap
9th February 2012, 07:56 PM
well, shit. i told my sister about the pink paste that they call hamburger meat the other day. so she calls me tonight to tell me about the hairy bread....


hahahah
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Edit; did you tell her about the ammonia they clean it with, for human consumption?

MNeagle
9th February 2012, 07:57 PM
Well, don't venture into gelatin or hot dogs then!

or head cheese, or blood sausage, pig's feet, or a ton of disgusting Depression-era foods where they scrounged everything?? Yuck.

muffin
9th February 2012, 08:03 PM
hahahah
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Edit; did you tell her about the ammonia they clean it with, for human consumption?

yes, but does that make it better?

zap
9th February 2012, 08:04 PM
Mmmmm ..... pink paste hamburgers. lol

MNeagle
9th February 2012, 08:06 PM
I read only the headline, but the other day it claims McD's stopped the pink-slime. I know RR was interested in the subject last year...