Either Prilosec or Nexium uses this one. They say their brand ‘can start working in as little as thirty minutes’ and the other brand ‘can take as long as twenty four hours to work’. I gather from the way they phrase it that both brands take effect some time between thirty minutes and twenty four hours.
Easy. The word “free” is short for “free-for-all”…
amen!
Just saw a deceptive package right now.
Bought some beef jerky and on the bag it said ~ Natural Smoke Flavor ~ but then underneath it out of bounds of the ~ decorative marks it said Added. Because you naturally assume the other ~ is where statement ends you don’t really immediately put together the entirely separate Added is part of that original statement. Pretty sneaky.
I can’t think of many off the stop of my head, but I like your question. Some of the “tricks” used by advertisers made me see red.
ALL of our modern foods called “GMO” ARE GMO, which means “genetically modified organism”. Well, all our food has been tinkered with from time immemorial; remember the kind of teeny little ears of corn our ancestors grew? Through genetic manipulation, we now have the big ears we eat now.
I erred in my previous post; I should have said “all Non-GMO food”…etc. on the first line. I’d edit the post but I’ve evidently corrected it so many times (I’m not a good typist :D) that I can’t edit any more, so made a new post to correct myself.:smack:
doh!
Because there is no good evidence that irradiation, for example, is less responsible than anything else.
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Shodan
It started with one of the soup companies a few years ago, but now I’m hearing more and more products described as being made with “farm-grown vegetables”. Really, you don’t get your vegetables cloned in the lab?
My favorite for a long time was from Coors Light - “The coldest tasting beer in the world”. Please tell me, what does cold taste like?
“Bad” is an opinion word. There are arguments about how much unknown risk we should tolerate; about the economic effects of GMOs; about how GMO crops intersect with IP laws; and other issues. People have a variety of opinions on these issues, based on a wide level of knowledge. If you’re suggesting that everyone who’s learned about all these issues has concluded that GMOs have no harmful effects on any of them, you’re mistaken. For you to claim that folks who say GMOs have bad effects are “lying” is similarly incorrect.
Once more, you’re incorrect. Sure, if someone claims that growing produce without pesticides leads to measurable nutrition benefits, that’s not a defensible claim. But if someone is worried about the effects of pesticides on honeybee populations, or the effects of cages on chicken welfare, or the effects of preventative antibiotic use on bacterial evolution, they may have a case for claiming certified organic food better allays their concerns than other foods.
Yes, I’m using weasel words here, because a full-on defense of each of these points is beyond the scope of the thread. But the non-weasel-word statements I quote above are wrong.
I’ve noticed this too. I used to buy toilet paper online but it became impossible to tell how many sheets were in each package on both Amazon and Walmart’s site. Sometimes they would go by total yardage and sometimes they would go by sheet count. but never both and sometimes neither. Plus both websites never had the exact same toilet paper even by the same brands, packages would contain either more rolls or bigger rolls compared to the other site.
I imagine they do that so people simply just don’t pick the one with the most actual sheets per roll every time.