I’m just relieved to learn that I’m not the only person in the world who eats my shrimp with the shells still on.
My wife’s parents used to tell her that she shouldn’t cut the crusts off bread, because all of the fiber or vitamins or nutrients or something were concentrated in the crust somehow.
And IMHO olives are olives are unpalatable no matter how you treat them. Bleagh!
The really most absurd thing about that one is that it may be true! :eek: Is eating bread crust really good for you? | HowStuffWorks
Grandma told me to eat the crusts because they put roses in my cheeks.
Maybe that’s where the rosacea came from. 
To the extent that you are exaggerating actual claims for breast milk (or repeating the wild claims of breast milk extremists) you no doubt have a point. However, I don’t think I’ve seen a study that *doesn’t * find that breast milk gives some measurable benefit over formula.
Further, saying “they’re both just food” is just plain wrong. Breast milk contains things that have health benefits other than just providing nutrition.
Breast feeding is inconvenient but entirely medically established to be better for babies. People don’t like to feel like they are not doing the best thing by their babies. Consequently there are people who really, really want to believe that formula is just as good despite the fact that proposition is demonstrably not true.
Well that is very remarkable. Do you live entirely on salt, vitamin pills, and refined sugar?
You must live on wind rushing past you.
Seriously. You want to give your precious snowflake the best, so you feed it milk that is carrying who-knows-what. So creepy.
The first sentence is one I completely disagree with. I breast fed both my children and I found it enormously convenient. No bottles to clean or sterilise, the milk was always at the right temperature and there was no waste.
Well, perhaps I should have said “Breast feeding is perceived to be inconvenient by some but…” The reasons people do not breastfeed wasn’t the subject of my post.
In general your statement is true, “breast is best” contains some truth, but there are many, many exceptions to that rule. There are women with various medical conditions who should NOT breast feed with their own milk because their milk could be hazardous to their their child due to contamination (HIV infection, for example, or women who take certain medications they require but which should not be passed on to their child).
While donated breast milk might be superior to formula, contaminated donated breast milk, whether that contamination is bacteria or some other substance, is NOT. Better a quality formula than unhealthy human milk. Formula isn’t ideal but it’s not poison, either. Healthy babies can do well on it if need be.
Notice how you have to strawman and ignore my point in order to rebut? What does that tell you?:
It tells me you have an axe to grind and are looking for generalities over specifics.
Formula isn’t the best but it’s not poison, it’s actual food. Feeding a child formula isn’t child abuse.
Alton Brown tackled both of these on one episode of “Good Eats”. His testing said “no” on both. The extra work just didn’t yield a significantly better result.
Okay: “sealing in the juices” is bunk, but for many meats you should sear it first before cooking with using another method, although sometimes you can achieve the same through other means: Maillard reaction.
The convenience of breastfeeding is highly variable depending on your personal situation. It can be extremely convenient if you’re a stay at home mom or live in a country that has a decent amount of maternity leave. But exclusive breastfeeding until age six months (which is highly recommended) is not as convenient if the mother has to return to work before that. Pumping can be inconvenient - especially if you have to take breaks at work to do it. And if you’re pumping you still have to deal with cleaning and sterilizing bottles and storing it.
So rather than recognise that you are strawmanning, you double down on it? How obnoxious do you wish to be? Who exactly is saying that formula is child abuse or that formula is poison or that it isn’t food? The answer, as I’m sure you know, is precisely no one participating in this thread, let alone me. That being the case, why did you say these things as if they were in response to anything I said?
This is arguable. I don’t think it’s an “absurd myth” as per the OP, but I don’t believe it’s correct. I guess it depends on what makes barf, well ‘barf’. Is it barf because it goes in the mouth and comes back out? Or is it barf because it is eaten, then regurgitated, possibly partially digested? I go with the second, and if that’s the case, then honey ISN’T bee barf.
The bee takes in nectar and stores it in a pouch along the alimentary canal, but before the stomach. There is no digestion taking place. I personally don’t consider that to be ‘barf’ or vomit, IMO, just a novel take on storage. If you think it counts as barf, just because it went in the mouth and down a little, then came back up, then I guess for you honey does count as bee barf.
I have to eat gluten free, so the gluten free thing helps me out, but I encounter people all the time who think they will lose weight if they just stop eating gluten. It doesn’t work that way! Though it tends to be true that you don’t necessarily replace all the wheat carbs with any other type. You just go without to some extent. Putting a sandwich in a lettuce wrap rather than gluten-free bread, for example.
It makes me afraid backlash is going to kill the gluten free market and the labels will go away. The labels are really helpful for those of us who need to avoid it! I swear!
I overheard someone in a restaurant a few months ago. One young woman was telling another young woman how someone had given her some sort of gift basket or care package, or something like that, I assume due to a child on the way. In it was a container of formula. On hearing this the other woman firmly and strictly blurted out “DO NOT USE IT. THROW IT AWAY.”
That’s utterly ridiculous. (Or is it udderly ridiculous?) Unless you’re in a third world country using contaminated water to mix it up, there’s nothing wrong with using formula.
Your post is relevant to what I said how?