- You've probably heard the buzz about "raw water," the hottest new drink in Silicon Valley. It promises benefits like "natural probiotics" and "beauty minerals" like silica—and as we just discovered, it's a total rip-off.
"Natural Probiotics" is spelled incorrectly. They meant to write Cholera. Water is full of stuff that used to kill people by the thousands. Millions even. There is a legitimate reason why we in the industrial world spend hundreds of millions of dollars on water purification and testing.
Spring water is delicious and worth every penny depending on circumstances.. If you live near a spring, it is free. If you do not, you have to pay for it. Just like oranges, avocados or anything else. If you like avocado toast and want to take a nice selfie for FB or IG, then it might be worth $100 for you. Personally, I enjoy a litre of chilled tap water a day. Unless I am near a spring. Or Flint, Mich. In Ontario, water bottlers pay $503.71 for every million litres of groundwater they take. The labels alone probably cost more. Ridiculous profit margin when there is a completely safe tap system that is already being publicly maintained. p.s. One of my pet peeves is when wait staff try to poor shame me into upgrading to bottled or sparkling water as opposed to mere "tap water". If I feel that I sometimes ask if their taps are dirty, because I do not want to eat here if your taps are dirty.
"But it's raw, must be it's natural and good!" In the first world we tend to forget exactly how close our grandparents were to dying from poisoning or a disease. We don't talk about it — only take it for granted. That not raising alarms on some people is my proof. One can easily take their ad content apart and roll eyes a dozen times. "one full lunar cycle"? Just below 30 days (if by lunar cycle they mean "new moon to new moon"). But it sounds mysterious, and apparently, the hipsters of the Silicon Valley are narcissistic enough to buy that there's some special water just for them if they're willing to shed the money. Silicon Valley is very high-money, and areas like that tend to attract scams for people thinking they deserve that money.it’s advertised as "unfiltered, untreated, unsterilized spring water.”
My mom (a biology teacher) has a saying with stuff like this: "Snake venom is organic, too."
Advertisers use "organic" to show the item's natural origin, which is supposed to tell us, in the age of manufactured goods, that it's good. It doesn't have to be. Coal is organic, and most of the times, we don't eat it.
And anything with “chemicals” is toxic. So, pretty much everything. We should all stay indoors and subsist on a diet of Purell hand sanitizer.
I can envision the Tim & Eric skit.With the new KaBOOM pills, from Cinco, just one, and you're done! After your stomach acids eat through the mag lev device, the antimatter is no longer suspended, and is free to annihilate with that pesky stomach lining. Although the pill will kill you, we are the first diet pill company to guarantee meaningful weightloss for any user. After your corpse is stitched back together for the funeral, some of your bits will have been left behind, on walls, floors, and ceilings, resulting in a second round of weightloss. You'll be thin, in your coffin, and that's how you'll be remembered.
Breatharians are the whackjobs you are looking for. These people were big for a while until they were caught shopping at 7-11's and I am not joking.
I was not disappointed.Wiley Brooks later claimed that Diet Coke and McDonald's cheeseburgers have special "5D" properties. The idea of separate but interconnected 5D and 3D worlds is a major part of Wiley Brooks' ideology, and Wiley Brooks encourages his followers to only eat these special 5D foods, as well as meditate on a set of magical 5D words.
In the same vein as francopoli: sun-gazers. People who believe they can survive solely by the energy of the Sun. And apparently, NASA confirmed that sun-gazing is a real energy source. Of course they didn't: the article's first line goes:The title may have taken you off guard, but like all the other things in life you have to read between the lines and decipher the real meaning that is evident here.
I should be more outraged than I am, but if rich people want to spend $24 a gallon on Oregon tap water I say let 'em. If they can drive up the price of bottled water to the point where the rest of us get back to drinking out of a faucet it'll be a net win for humanity.
Also depends on where the watershed is from. Due to all the farm runoff out here, there are boil and do not drink advisories on all the local streams and creeks. The water here comes from a limestone capped aquifer that has won awards for its taste and treatment. If you are above the tree line in Colorado, for example, with no animal waste entering the water, you are probably safe. The Ohio River is cleaning up, but still has to be treated with caution. Pollution is a real issue and for decades raw sewage was dumped into the streams and feeders. I live out of town, in a "city" of about 5K people. Our water is shit. As in it tastes, for lack of a better description, old. I filter everything to make it taste better. The pipes here are old and the water towers are from the 50's and probably need to be replaced. $.50 a gallon for bottled water is too expensive, but then again I am a cheap bastard and would rather spend $40 on a filter that gives me thousands of gallons.
I wouldn't even drink water untreated while hiking in Adirondack Park. It may be remote mountains, but all those hikers are peeing and pooping all over those woods (myself included). It's still very tasty water after running though a filter and adding purifying drops, but I always treat it. I think everyone does, at least everyone who thinks about such things.