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Make Money At Home Stuffing Supplement Capsules—No Anything Required

This personal testimony about health supplements from winstonthorne on today's earlier post is too good—and disturbing—to leave buried in comments:
One of my friends actually stuffs capsules for a living for a company making an herbal "sexual stimulant" - she literally sits there on her living room floor watching TV, smoking cigarettes, and talking on the phone while handling (with either bare unwashed hands or many-times-reused gloves) the powder and the capsules themselves. It pays well, and her boss gets away with this because there's no FDA control on herbal supplements AT ALL. God only knows what's in those pills.

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1:42 PM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By Chris Walters
8,023 views, 57 comments

Latest by n/a: Just another example of the FDA's incompetence and unwillingness to put our safety first. It's never a good thing to try those supplements anyway, because most people who take herbal supplements never tell their doctors about it and their other more »

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Disturbing Cheese Ads With Luis Guzmán And His Fellow "Cheddar Hunks"


Okay, we're just going to say it: calling men of a certain age "cheddar hunks" just sounds like they all smell like stinky feet. That's a table I want to stay far, far away from. Nevertheless, Cabot Cheese of Vermont has launched a new television campaign featuring Guzmán and his Stinky-Feet-Friends sitting around drinking beer and eating cheese. It's weird. And though we have always liked Cabot Cheese, now it's going to be hard not to think of middle-aged toes (and werewolves) whenever we go cheddar shopping. Urg. More »

11:52 AM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By Chris Walters
869 views, 9 comments

Latest by n/a: Cabot cheese really is fantastic. I am not from the company by the way. more »

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Cool Whip Is Lube

Wired took a peek under Cool Whip's sheets, and the results are not appetizing. Mandatory food labels ostensibly exist to empower consumers; when companies label ingredients with their scientific names, rather than their common names, consumers can wind up eating lube, or as it's called in Cool Whip, Polysorbate 60. From Wired:
Polysorbate 60
Polysorbates are made by polymerizing ethylene oxide (a precursor to antifreeze) with a sugar alcohol derivative. The result can be a detergent, an emulsifier, or, in the case of polysorbate 60, a major ingredient in some sexual lubricants.
Shame we never got to hear Charlton Heston exclaim: "Cool Whip is Lube!" — CAREY GREENBERG-BERGER More »

3:00 PM on Sun Apr 29 2007
By Carey
21,248 views, 42 comments

Latest by n/a: I feel compelled to point out that water is composed of 2 parts hydrogen, (a highly explosive component resposible for the Hindenberg disaster), and 1 part oxygen, (a substance who's presence in its purest form makes even poorly flamible substances more »