# label food containing DNA! It contains dihydrogen monoxide too! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 16, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/label-food-containing-dna-it-contains-dihydrogen-monoxide-too/749173 "2016-03-16T16:40:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hooleehootoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/eada6e/32.png) [@Hooleehootoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hooleehootoo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/label-food-containing-dna-it-contains-dihydrogen-monoxide-too/749173/1 "2016-03-16T16:40:58Z")
80% of the respondents of [this](http://agecon.okstate.edu/faculty/publications/4975.pdf) survey favor labeling foods that contain DNA. Beyond containing Hydric acid, semen is DNA and no one wants semen in their food. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/label-food-containing-dna-it-contains-dihydrogen-monoxide-too/749173/2 "2016-03-16T18:04:58Z")
You can mock people’s concerns all you want, but I really think we need to step back and take a look at what our modern diet and lifestyle are doing to our bodies. For example, the food industry puts numerous additives in our food–even in breakfast cereal intended for young children. Those additives include: [pyridine-3-carboxylic acid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niacin) (also known as Nicotinic Acid) [7,8-Dimethyl-10-[(2_S_,3_S_,4_R_)-2,3,4,5-tetrahydroxypentyl]benzo[_g_]pteridine-2,4-dione](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riboflavin) [3-((4-Amino-2-methyl-5-pyrimidinyl)methyl)- 5-(2-hydroxyethyl)-4-methylthiazolium chloride](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamine) Again, these are additives that the big food companies are [_deliberately_ putting in our food](http://www.kelloggs.com/en_US/the-benefits-of-cereal/vitamin-fortification.html). Other alarming facts: The bodies of Americans–and even of people living as far away as Africa–contain [detectable amounts of selenium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium_in_biology). This element can function as a “cofactor for glutathione peroxidases and certain forms of thioredoxin reductase”. The brain tissue of Americans has been found to contain [2-(3,4-Dihydroxyphenyl)ethylamine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine), [_N_-Acetylaspartylglutamic acid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Acetylaspartylglutamic_acid), and [_gamma_-Aminobutyric acid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Aminobutyric_acid) The average American’s stomach contains substantial amounts of [hydrochloric acid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric_acid). [Wake up, sheeple!](https://xkcd.com/1013/) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/label-food-containing-dna-it-contains-dihydrogen-monoxide-too/749173/3 "2016-03-16T18:24:44Z")
I designed and ordered a T-shirt from one of those custom T-shirt places. It has a large double helix on the front along with the phrase “Food Tastes Better With DNA”. I am looking foward to wearing it to Whole Foods as soon as we start having nice warm weather. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/label-food-containing-dna-it-contains-dihydrogen-monoxide-too/749173/4 "2016-03-16T18:40:12Z")
I had this thing up on my wall for the longest time that had a picture of an apple that said “We Love Chemicals,” and had a list of all of the chemicals that made up an apple. Here it is: [Link](https://www.google.com/search?q=chemicals+in+an+apple&safe=off&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&tbm=isch&imgil=llsRpqOQJD0BUM%253A%253B03iBZtOtCeOJUM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fblog.everydayscientist.com%25252F%25253Fp%2525253D2814&source=iu&pf=m&fir=llsRpqOQJD0BUM%253A%252C03iBZtOtCeOJUM%252C_&usg=__-C-mUhxQjrp9mn1AZxzy3o_SpkY%3D&biw=1600&bih=755&ved=0ahUKEwianLbq7MXLAhViYJoKHT4ECewQyjcIKg&ei=16fpVtrUFOLA6QS-iKTgDg#imgrc=llsRpqOQJD0BUM%3A) The sheer ignorance of people is what confounds me. Ok, the US has a ridiculously high rate of preterm birth, at least half of which the causes are unknown, allergies that come about in adulthood, etc…no doubt there is reason to look into our food. But we can’t look at it in any coherent manner. We simply scream GMO! CHEMICALS! DNA! and run out the door like children offered broccoli. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/label-food-containing-dna-it-contains-dihydrogen-monoxide-too/749173/5 "2016-04-13T23:57:54Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > […] The average American’s stomach contains substantial amounts of [hydrochloric acid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric_acid). > > [Wake up, sheeple!](https://xkcd.com/1013/) It’s funny you say that, in all seriousness. I was suffering a bout of insomnia the other night, and for some reason thought to myself in thinking about digestion, hydrochloric acid? Where does all the chlorine come from?! Then it hit me. Salt. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/label-food-containing-dna-it-contains-dihydrogen-monoxide-too/749173/6 "2016-04-14T00:49:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Beyond containing Hydric acid, semen is DNA and no one wants semen in their food. 😉 I seem to remember a little cookbook that came out a few years ago. It was full of ideas that knock your “no one wants semen in their food” into a cocked(so to speak) hat. 😉 Title of the book: Natural Harvest. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/label-food-containing-dna-it-contains-dihydrogen-monoxide-too/749173/7 "2016-04-14T01:10:43Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > We simply scream GMO! CHEMICALS! DNA! and run out the door like children offered broccoli. Well I for one wish that our corporate overlords in the processed food industry would stop putting so much broccoli into everything we eat!