Another day ,another food scare story.....

You may well have become aware in a seemingly never ending series of food scare stories that food is dangerous , not just unhealthy... most food apparently... and especially the foods you love... It has also become apparent that most food companies are actually trying to kill us all, by stealth, and that marketers are evil incarnate. In addition to the run of the mill stories about "Processed food" last night I watched a pretty balanced ,evidence based expose about the dangers of a pretty much basic and unprocessed food, which also scared me .......the culprit this time is ... rice, and I share this with you in a sense of public service announcement. Apparently arsenic occurs naturally in rice , and can cause Arsenic poisoning if eaten in sufficient quantities daily over time ,and if not cooked in a particular way which reduces the Arsenic level....but which is probably not much known or used by rice eaters, certainly none I know. Now I don't know about you , but I wonder if all the rice eating cultures of the world knew they should give up eating rice, immediately, or change the way they cook it? More worrying how did previous generations survive.? Are today's rice eating peoples all really Zombies? Unfortunately the programme last night didn't deal with these rather more exciting and important questions....