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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • Because people are dumb. Chalk is in milk, now, right on the label…even marketed as a feature. I’ve got two bottles of alt-milk in my fridge now, store-brand Almondmilk and Planet Oat. Both list chalk as the second ingredient.

    But if you tell that to any random schmuck they either won’t believe you or they’ll be disgusted. And then probably keep drinking it anyway.

    And that’s with the information right there on the label.

    I’m not trying to downplay the example, but there were far worse atrocities fixed by regulations.



  • Yeah. I get that…but the way it was phrased by OOP it was as of “chalk” was used by an example as if that makes it somehow worse. We still put “chalk” in milk, though.

    Better example is like those people who say “eww” to hotdogs because there’s a regulation limiting how many bug parts are allowed in them…not even considering the alternative of “no limit on how many bug parts”.

    Or my wife, who refuses to eat a cherry tomato if it fell on the ground.


  • Surely you could’ve come up with a better example.

    Chalk is just calcium carbonate. Modern medicine uses calcium carbonate to as a calcium supplement.

    We are still adding things to milk. Any milk that’s “calcium fortified” or “extra calcium”, and a lot of nut-milks, have calcium carbonate as an ingredient to this day.

    I mean, I get your point…honestly, I do…but it’s coming across nearly as the same sort of anti-science drivel you’d expect from the counterargument.