On May 5, 2:23*pm, notbob wrote:
On 2009-05-05, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

I don't doubt you had problems, but you are one in a million or a billion or
a bazillion. *The rest of us don't have the same reaction from trace amounts
that a cutting board may give.

If I was one in a bazillion, laxitives and hemorroid meds wouldn't be a
billion dollar industry. *

I'm not saying using mineral oil on a cutting board will automatically give
one 'roids', but ingesting it does your body no good and it's not as benign
as you might believe. *I will agree the amounts one would ingest using it on
a cutting board are negligible. *OTOH, I don't care what the oil companies
would like us to believe, I will not knowingly ingest petroleum products, no
matter how refined. *You, of course, are free to do as you like. *

I understand your concern for your health due to your experiences, but
please recognize that you are ingesting petroleum products, laboratory
chemicals and other food stuffs untouched by nature every single day.
It doesn't matter is the label says organic, free-range or anything
else.

Pretty much everything you eat is fertilized one way or another, and
fertilizer is made from ammonia, and ammonia is made from natural gas
and nitrogen (fixed by the Haber process). In other words, you are,
and are consuming, petroleum products each and every meal.

If you think that's weird, check out Haber's life. He was responsible
for one of the greatest boons to mankind and also for some of the most
horrific products ever made.

R