[ericdykstra]

> medicines are highly "unnatural", but they save lives. why is food any different?

Many medicines also cause more harm than they provide help. Just look at the history of drugs that have had to be taken off the market due to crippling or deadly side effects just to treat some mild cold symptoms or something equally minor.

"Natural" is not at all a ridiculous term. It can be made ridiculous when things like "natural flavoring" aren't any different from "artificial flavoring," but I will take natural (or at least human incrementally improved over generations and generations) over artificial (top down diet science-ing) any day.

[Aaron1011]

> Many medicines also cause more harm than they provide help

How many is 'many'? 50%? 25%? Or simply 'more than zero'?

> but I will take natural (or at least human incrementally improved over generations and generations) over artificial (top down diet science-ing) any day.

I assume that you would prefer an 'unnatural' vaccination to the 'natural' disease it prevents. If so, which categories of 'natural' do you prefer?