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Subway is now yoga mats

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Mr.Mitten
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Well apparently they found a chemical used in rubber soled shoes in yoga mats in Subways ever so delicious bread... Eat fresh boys and girls!

Feb 6 2014 10:25PM
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Wallisch_pl
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it even says it's FDA approved, so who gives a shit?
Feb 6 2014 10:33PM
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chicken
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There are chemicals in everything. If you are eating subway you clearly don't give a shit about nutrition anyways. Stupid people.
Feb 6 2014 10:35PM
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deleted5
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They also approved Gatorade when they had flame retardant in their drink what's your point. Sidenote, I'm also furious they banned all good fat burners in the US.
Feb 7 2014 12:01AM
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cheaaaaaa
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two products sharing a given ingredient does not inherently mean that consuming it is unhealthy, its just a catch tag line for the papers.

Its all good, however, the sad part is that legitimate business (subway and others associated with the additive) may take a hit from this. Not to mention, the credibility of food additives in general is put on the chopping block without legitimate grounds. This happened to BPA and vaccines. As someone really into science this sort of reporting pisses me right off.

them chemical additive in question is azodicarbonamide. The fad regulated max allowed in foods is 45 ppm, which is exponentially less than a quantity that would even theoretically (although it was tested) case significant affects.


If your using college internet, check this out
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16192074
Feb 7 2014 1:47AM
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cheaaaaaa
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christ, im a little disturbed after watching what cnn advocated. I really have to say.

After a quick read of the actual peer reviewed articles available (aka the legitimized scientific findings) from which cnn was obviously pulling some but not all of their info, the general consensus was that the benefits of this additive in food (at normal levels) far outweigh the risks. Its a pretty good antiviral/ antibacterial apparently.

its only in scaring soccer moms into signing petitions that they get this shit banned

(coming from a bio degree holder)
Feb 7 2014 1:58AM
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chicken
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you must be so smart
Feb 7 2014 2:18AM
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Jeebus.
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OP is a yoga mat.
Feb 7 2014 2:20AM
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Darth.Maul
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The carbon that is in your food is the very same carbon that is also contained in banned pesticides. Ban carbon now!
Feb 7 2014 2:34AM
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spliff.Life
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well if yoga is good for you then the mats gotta be! and theyre in subway? coincidence?
Feb 7 2014 3:03AM
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JeremyClarkson
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Whats with all the star wars names?
Feb 7 2014 3:46AM
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Toaster-Tony
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I think it would be a bigger problem if gatorade was flammable rather of flame retardant.
Feb 7 2014 5:55AM
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louie.mirags
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Bread does nothing for you nutrition wise besides make you inflamed. The deli meat had mass amounts of sodium. But now you're worried about subway.
Feb 7 2014 6:23AM
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Deforestation
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They are part of some nerd group in off topic
Feb 7 2014 6:40AM
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John18_6
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Saying that yoga mat chemicals in subway sandwiches is bad is like saying that eating strawberries that contain water will turn you into an aryan supremacist dictator because hitter also contained water.
Feb 7 2014 11:12AM
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SKI.ING
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Hahaha for some reason I always remember you having a strong hatred of Subway from other threads.
Feb 7 2014 11:14AM
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chacha33
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If you don't think Quiznos is better than Subway that you can eat as much yoga mat as you want
Feb 7 2014 11:18AM
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.Apex.
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I'm sure every big chain uses fucked up ingredients to compete with prices. We're all gonna die anyways, Eat Fresh bro
Feb 7 2014 2:06PM
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cheaaaaaa
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that sweet onion chicken teriyaki tho
Feb 7 2014 2:26PM
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cheaaaaaa
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I'm avoiding work so i did some math.

heres a fun fact, if you replaced the wight of azodicarbonamide in a sub with cyanide, you would have to eat least 7.5 subs in a day to have it kill you.

(ld50 of cn is 1.5mg/kg. assuming 70 kg person. azodicarbonamide's fda maximum is 45ppl. the weight of a footlong subway epic of bread is 174 g. and i had to use the molar ratio and not percent by weight of azodicarbonamide, which should cause the final number to be deflated.)

id love to see someone else do the math for how many yoga mats you'd have to eat
Feb 7 2014 3:01PM
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MNS
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Idiots like OP are the reason my Facebook feed is covered with dumb shit about artificial sweeteners and redbull conspiracies.

Go on google scholar and educate yourself
Feb 7 2014 3:03PM
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Toasty.
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Dat honey mustard mini keg
Feb 7 2014 3:52PM
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caucasian_chad
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OMG THEY USE THE ACTIVE INGREDIENT IN BEER TO MAKE FUCKING E-85 GASOLINE!!!! HOLY SHIT I BETTER NOT EVER DRINK AGAIN, THERE'S GAS IN MY BEER!

Related:
Feb 7 2014 10:14PM
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theabortionator
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The FDA is a fucking joke. Seriously impossible to take the FDA seriously.



Also subway is a terrible place to buy food. I'd rather spend $2 more and get a real dank sub with a decent amount of meat in good condition, nice veggies that aren't beat, and some real bread. Also what would get at subway costs like 7.50 there anyway. For the same price I could get a sub 10 times better at a gas station just in my own small ass town. Plenty of decent to great sub places out there all over. Also chains like wawa that cost 5 like subway. The fact that people go to subway is WUT. I think something about having sub in the name convinced people they need to go there if getting a sub.

It's like getting mcdonalds quality without price. If they're called "sandwich artists" that makes anyone who can even make a PBJ sandwich a motherfucking 5 star chef.

I'm done now. Carry on
Feb 8 2014 4:01AM
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theabortionator
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The only time I'll go there.
Feb 8 2014 4:03AM
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louie.mirags
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When you leave the tristate/new England area it is really hard to find good quality sub a at gas station.. still fuck subways bum ass quality though
Feb 8 2014 6:56AM
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Mr.LemonPie
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I mean is that really a sad thing though? People eating less fast food is surely a good thing...
Feb 8 2014 11:10AM
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cheaaaaaa
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its used pretty widely. I can't say the same for baby food, of which its often used as an antibacterial agent
Feb 8 2014 12:13PM
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