Matthew Walton’s Blog

Looking at this article from BBC News Online about a farm which dyes baby chicks different colours by injecting dye into their eggs before they hatch, I came across the following attempt to prove that the dye isn’t harmful to the chicks:

“The dye, which the farm insists does not contain chemicals”

So if it’s not got chemicals in it, what does it have in it, exactly? Good intentions? Quick science lesson people: every substance is a chemical or combination thereof. The stuff you extract from plants is no less a chemical than the stuff that comes out of enormous chemical plants — and that probably came out of a plant somewhere along the line as well.

People automatically think chemicals are bad, but where would they be without their sodium chloride, eh?