So I am talking to one of my bhai’s today (the med student one (Mash’Allah)) and hes telling me about things that they discuss in class, and some things about patients hes been seeing, etc. The conversation then turns onto food and astronauts and water, etc. Here are some things we both shared with eachother (from our discussions with others, readings, etc), some of which are very surprising and not to mention, absolutely grosssssss.
I found this on a veggie website, this is what someone there posted:
“Nothing surprises me…My first job was answering calls for a major cereal maker…lets just say over the few months of answering these calls I no longer eat cereal for a morning snack…Here are a few that I recall [people complaining about]…spiders, moths, flies, ants, larvae eggs, condoms, cig butts, glass, fingernails, a block of sugar, burnt cereal…A lot of this [stuff] falls out of workers pockets in the production phase of the product.”
This is from another site:
L-Cysteine is used as a reducing agent in bakery products. It is used to:
Reduce the mixing time of the flour dough.
Stop shrinking of pizza crust after it is flattened.
Help move the dough through various bakery processing equipments or dough conditioners.
Majority of L-Cysteine used in USA is from human hair(mostly from the Chinese), which is its cheapest source. There is no pressure from consumers in USA and Canada to ban it.
Something my brothers professor told the class:
There was a lady who went to the hospital noticing a lump on her tongue. It was there for about two months and growing. They “cut” the lump at the hospital and a large, live roach came out. She had licked a stamp that had roach larvae on it. faint
Professor said that people here should not make fun of arabs and the like for using water to wash. Toilet paper contains a lot of harmful materials to the body, and they are conducting studies now on how toilet paper may possibly lead to colon and other cancers. But he said the government may never reveal this information if its found to be true.
Bhai also explained how astronauts use their own urine and filter it to turn it into water they drink.
Some of these points may be argued, but I wanted to share what I heard and read, as I found it interesting nonetheless. Somethings to think about. smile
… haww … touba touba 
