Re:McDonald’s Universal Icons for 109 Countries [pdf]
by TheRealPomax on Saturday June 03, 2017 @03:36PM
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So is grain alcohol. That does not make it plant matter. Both are so far removed from "plants" that the association with it's original components is effectively meaningless. Bread is not a plant product, it is its own thing: a bread product.
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Re:McDonald’s Universal Icons for 109 Countries [pdf]
by thaumasiotes on Saturday June 03, 2017 @04:55PM
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Compare the equivalent product, rice. Rice is stewed grass seeds. You don't think it's a plant product? Are potatoes a plant product?
Grain alcohol, depending on how you prepare it, might easily retain no trace of biological material other than sugar and alcohol. That is not true of bread; bread is not heavily processed at all. You could trivially analyze any sample of bread and determine what plants it was made from.
Claiming that bread is not a plant product makes all the sense of claiming that cheese is not a milk product.