NOW Foods starts marketing products as "non-nano" ingredients only.

Calling all #NanoBots!

Here's something that will make you go hmm...

New ideas are almost always sure to cause radical opposition (at least initially). Then logic begins to prevail in the mind of the opposer and perception eventually changes. It is a form of cognitive dissonance, and it's uncomfortable on the psyche. You don't want to believe it, so you oppose it. It's more comforting to the brain to just believe what it wants. As a psych guy, I totally understand. It's just human nature.

That being said, I know my posts on nanotechnology are polarizing. It's comfortable territory for me. I fought for legalization in PA and was part of over 50 events across multiple states over a 5-year span as the Medical Cannabis Society . At almost every event I was met with radical opposition while trying to convince people that cannabis was beneficial as opposed to the devils drug. After arguing with someone for an hour over why cannabis is good (when they are sure it's the gateway drug), I always walk away and say to myself, "cognitive dissonance is a bitch" and let them slide for being ignorant to hard facts.

The entire cannabis industry knows this phenomenon well. There were times where people in new states just hadn't had enough exposure to all of the positive benefits of cannabis, and so they fought against it - but it was only a matter of time before they would come around. This can be seen in the numbers. Just 5 years ago or so, the majority of the US opposed marijuana. Depending on which poll you read these days, it now has somewhere around an 80 or 90% acceptance rate. New ideas take time to gain acceptance, and it always comes after a certain level of education on the matter. Education is followed by a drop in emotion tied to the prior thought, and eventually the new logical information is accepted in the mind of the opposer.

Nano is the new hot topic. "Nanotechnology" represents manipulating substances at the atomic and molecular scale. The resulting nanomaterials are so minuscule that they cannot be detected using conventional microscopes. However, "nano" signifies more than just minuscule size. Engineered at the nanoscale, these materials exhibit entirely new behaviors that cannot be anticipated from their larger counterparts. Their exceptionally small dimensions provide them with remarkable mobility, while their distinct chemical and biological properties increase the likelihood of biological interaction and heightened toxicity.

The organic community in the United States has consistently maintained that nanomaterials, like genetic engineering, should be excluded from organic foods and packaging. Canada, Australia, and Austria have banned nanoparticles smaller than 100 nanometers (nm) from organic foods, while the United Kingdom prohibits nanomaterials smaller than 200 nm.

In response to international and public concern, the food industry has been gradually moving away from incorporating nanotechnology in food products. Recently, Dunkin' Donuts announced it would cease using nanomaterials in its donuts. McDonald's and Kraft have also stated that they do not use nanomaterials in their products.

You can bet if McDonald's and Kraft are making the switch away from nano, it's only a matter of time before the world begins to follow.

That being said, I look at ingredients when I buy products. I don't look at the front of the label, I look at the back. When I see an ingredient I don't know, I do some research on it and determine if it's going into my system or not.

For instance, would you knowingly eat soap? I wouldn't. In fact, when I was bad as a kid, the punishment for being bad was having to put a bar of soap in my mouth.

So, did you know cannabis and hemp companies are using soap and chemicals in their nano formulas? They use names that aren't recognizable to most of us, like China bark, Murillo bark, Panama bark, Quillaja, and Soapbark extract to confuse people into thinking they aren't eating soap. If you had to eat through an entire bar of soap to get to a goji berry, would you have the audacity look your friend in the eye and tell them it's good for you? I doubt it because you would get sick before you could even get to that point. Even if the soap was made in an FDA-approved lab with 100% organic ingredients and on gold-plated equipment operated by unicorns - you just don't eat soap.

But, the typical consumer isn't educated and aware of the Nanobots and their tricks. The general public thinks that the government is watching over them when it comes to food safety. As someone who has been a vegan and health fanatic for 11 years, I can tell you, the government is your worst enemy when it comes to what food and drugs you should and shouldn't ingest.

Here's an example from years ago and why it matters to pay attention, despite what the product marketing language or the government says:

In 2015, a representative of Monsanto (the chemical company that makes most of the food you eat, whether you know it or not) was asked in a public interview if their weed killer, RoundUp, was safe. He replied "you can drink it a whole quart of it and it won't hurt you". He was then asked by the reporter to take a sip of RoundUp on camera.

Reporter: "You want to drink some? We have it here"

Monsanto Rep: "I would be happy to actually"

Reporter: "Yeah"

Monsanto Rep: "Not really"

Reporter: "Not really?"

Monsanto Rep: "But I know it wouldn't hurt me"

Reporter: "Ok, then drink it"

Monsanto Rep: "I'm not stupid, but it's not dangerous to humans"

Reporter: "Ok, are you ready to drink it, I'll pour you a glass"

Monsanto Rep: "I'm not an idiot"

Now, that interview took place in 2015. Fast forward to 2023 and Bayer/Monsanto has reached an approximately $11 billion settlement with most plaintiffs over RoundUp causing cancer. It's only been 8 years since that news interview was published and approximately 80% of filed Roundup lawsuits have been settled. What was your in belief of back in 2015 in regards to RoundUp? Had you even heard of GMO's back then? Well, the Epoch Times recently did a piece on nanotechnology in our food and beverages and said, when considering the socio-economic and ethical implications of nanotechnology, comparisons to the GMO debate are unavoidable.

I have been bitching up a storm over RoundUp (glyphosate) and GMO's since 2012. The problem is that people seem to believe the marketing language as opposed to what is reality.

We are actually raised to think soap in your mouth is a form of punishment. Unless you are a masochist, it's 's up there with getting spanked or grounded as a mechanism built to keep you from doing something "bad" again as a child.

Well, that's what the cannabis industry is doing - and their customers are unknowingly saying, "Thank you sir, can I have another". No matter how many #nanobots get mad at my post and talk about their proprietary soap + sonication method, the reality is that other countries are banning nano and multinational supplement companies are beginning to separate themselves from those using nano, because it IS a problem, despite the fact that the cannabis industry SAYS it's perfectly safe.

Let's look at the reality we are sitting in...The marijuana industry has been around since 1996. Not very long in the scope of things. Now Foods is a multinational leader in natural products and has been successfully doing business for 50+ years with a dedication to superior quality and a mission to be "absolutely relentless about making the natural products and supplement industry better".

If this info was made into an SAT test question to determine your ability to follow logic, THEN, IF the supplement industry is an ADULT, the cannabis industry would be:

a. A dog

b. A tree

c. A rainbow

d. A child

That being said, Now Foods is now marketing their lines as being free of nano-particle nutrients.

So I ask the #Nanobots, why would a 55 year-old multinational company choose do this? I'm not asking if your proprietary soap and chemical slurry is better than all of the other kid's proprietary soap slurries. I am asking a very logical question. Why is nanotechnology starting to be banned in other countries and separated from by trusted brands that have been around longer than most cannabis company executives have been alive?

I dunno. Sounds like a lot of people in the hemp and cannabis industry are talking about things they really don't understand.

The eureka moment is comin'.

#cognitivedissonanceisabitch #runfromnano