Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
Thanks, guys! The sad thing is I think this whole subject has put me off food this evening and possibly for longer. We had salmon, and my husband asked, "Why aren't you eating your supper?" I kept thinking about pink food additives and stabilizers and thickeners (we were also having salad with dressing containing propylene glycol alginate). I ate a couple of bites of rice and let him eat the rest of my food. Tomorrow I may fast . . .

Ever wonder why wild salmon isn't as pink as farmed salmon? No, they don't dye the fish, but they do put coloring in the food fed to farmed salmon. They have to since farmed salmon wouldn't be eating the same things that wild salmon would that naturally turn the meat pink.

Anyhow, what all of this leads up to is that we really need to be aware of what we're eating. There's lots of choices out there, some are good and some are bad. I can buy a great microbrew beer without any propylene glycol alginate that tastes better than anything with it, just not a foamy. I can make a great buttercream frosting for a cake without any paint chemicals. It may not be be so white that you need sunglasses to look at it but it will taste great and still be as white as it needs to be. I can buy nitrate free hot dogs which may not last a year in the fridge like regular hot dogs but taste great; and who wants anything that's been in the fridge for a year?

So, do a little research, find what's good and what's bad, then buy accordingly. Then the only thing you need to worry about is getting hit by a car in the grocery parking lot.