Japanfag here. I "work with" 9 other foreigners, and by that I mean that they work in my same town but we are assigned to work in different schools. I usually never see them unless it's during breaks like the current summer vacation because we don't have lessons scheduled. I have overheard them talking about taking their children to get vaccinated and I just sit there and try not to roll my eyes. Today I overheard two of them talking about voting independent. There's no way they'll vote for ermagerd Drummmmmmpf, but apparently they're getting sick of the Democrat Party at last. One of them is a paid subscriber to NYT and WaPo, so he's a boomer. Just this week he tried telling me that MSG is just a spice like anything else, so apparently it's no worse than turmeric or something. I try to keep my interaction with these people to a minimum because they're lost causes, but it looks like even they are getting tired of what's going on too.
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MSG is harmless
Too much and it ruins my mood. Can't be still, can't think straight, easily agitated.
Yeah it gives me a weird feeling. Maybe it's "harmless" in the grand scheme of things, but it certainly doesn't seem beneficial.
MSG gives you a weird feeling because it's an excitotoxin. What my libtard coworker fails to realize is that just because it can be a naturally occurring chemical compound, it does not have the same value of a real spice like basil, cumin, paprika, etc. It's just a chemical.
Just because MSG can be found naturally occurring in mushrooms, the process to make soy sauce, etc, it doesn't justify adding manufactured version of the chemical in unnatural amounts as a flavor enhancer.
I hope you are not the type who ridicules "soyboys" because after all, phytoestrogens are naturally occuring in soybeans, and since soybeans are a type of food, then it must be completely fine, given that you assume that since MSG is naturally occurring compound found in certain foods then therefore it must be fine to artifically supplement this compound in foods by lazy cooks. Aluminum can be found naturally in fruit, but it's ridiculous to assume that therefore you can just load up on aluminum.
"MSG is naturally occurring in many vegetables and fungi. In fact, MSG can be derived from plants and vegetables, typically corn and beets..."
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/101-series-monosodium-glutamate-msg
Arsenic can also be a naturally occurring compound found in food. Go ahead and load up on arsenic and let me know how that goes.