“Ethoxyquin used in fish feed is added to prevent the feed blowing up in transit, yes, explosions. It is also used to keep fats from going rancid. And there has been an on-going ‘fight’ for the past decade to get it out of food for humans, but it has been making our pets sick as it is used in pet food. See the Gloria Dodd letter at the bottom, who was a vet. Read it to see how many diseases are caused. And even for fish feed, which ends up in humans, the extension for getting rid of it is to 2020. Don’t hold your breath that it will be taken out of our food stream, as the fish farm industry doesn’t want that to happen.”

“Linolenic acid (18:3) is the major acid in linseed oil (60%) and is the basis for most of the industrial uses of this oil. ‘Linola’ is the name given to a chemically induced mutant with low levels of linolenic acid and high levels of linoleic acid. Linolenic acid is also present in soybean oil (8%) and in rapeseed oil (10%). There is some ambivalence about this acid. Its presence promotes undesirable oxidation and foods containing it have reduced shelf life. The problem has been overcome traditionally by a very light hydrogenation (brush hydrogenation), which halves the level of linolenic acid. More recently, new varieties of these oils have been developed with lower levels of linolenic acid — some of them by genetic modification.”

According to the same source …

“Much of the large processed-food industry would be impossible to run without antioxidants of some kind. They are essential to inhibiting the development of rancidity and thereby extending shelf life.
“Important synthetic antioxidants include butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), propyl gallate (PG) and tertiarybutyl hydroquinone (TBHQ). Natural antioxidants include vitamin E (tocopherols), ascorbyl palmitate, β-Carotene and compounds present in a range of spices and herbs.”

Thousands of deer and elk in the Great Lakes states are carrying prion diseases, and people are worried about catching the sniffles from a “beer bug.”

Ya can’t even get people to grasp the germ theory, much less prion theory!

According to Ray Peat …

“Serotonin and histamine are increased by estrogen, and their activation mimics the effects of estrogen. Serotonin is closely involved in mood disorders, but also in a great variety of other problems that affect women much more frequently than men. These are probably primarily energy disorders, relating to cellular respiration and thyroid function. Liver disease and brain disease, e.g., Alzheimer’s disease, are both much more common in women than in men, and serotonin and estrogen strongly affect the energetic processes in these organs. Liver disease can increase the brain’s exposure to serotonin, ammonia, and histamine. It isn’t just a coincidence that these three amines occur together and are neurotoxic; they are all stress-related substances, with natural roles in signaling and regulation.”

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Actually I should have figured it out as a hippie in the 1960s, when doctors used serotonin to bring people down out of “bad” acid trips. Serotonin has been keeping people imprisoned in their own linear “thinking” from Now to Midnight Eternity.