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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by parineum on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:52AM (#42713452)
> that have much lower risk scores (as they are from plant and animal sources)

This is a fallacy. If anything, there's more reason to expect that a substance evolved to serve a biological function (that happens to be red) would have biological effects in humans than a substance developed specifically to be red and be biologically inert.

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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by ninininino on Thursday January 23, 2025 @01:31PM (#42806576)
No, the bias towards natural isn't because of appeal to nature, it's because we co-evolved and we'd know by now if red insect dye is carcinogenic compared to a new synthetic dye that hasn't had decades of interaction with humans. We have a longer time window of prior experience with the older, natural ingredient.

We could be creating something as dangerous as asbestos artificially.

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