Would you buy/eat food dipped in edible plastic, which could make it safer?
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Maybe. I wouldn't be the first to jump on this bandwagon. I wonder if plastic would be like eating lettuce, so you would actually burn more calories since there is no nutrional value.
We already have too many preservatives and other chemicals in our food. We do not need to add plastic to the list.
nope, can't do it
The plastic is naked to touch anything, E.coli is just about everywhere, even on a shelve in cub foods or whatever grocerey store.
Only if someone paid me.
how do you know the plastic is even clean??? plastic carries more bacteria yuk!!!
Uhh.
Why, exactly, is plastic "nasty"?
There's no flavor, no substance to it.
I doubt it would be allowed if it weren't safe.
So what's the huuuuge deal?
I don't know if I would want to eat it I would have to look at health studies and see how it tastes
Peace on Earth:)
Its kind of gross
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Mkay this is freakin nasty. Yeah sure, it'd keep E. Coli away, but it could also RUIN our bodies, people! It's like eating a freaking Barbie doll. That's how I think of it. EEEEEWWWWW!
It sounds kinda gross, but I might try it.
if it tasted good
americans will eat anytihing that is why they are fat organic is the way to go man
i don't know why is it a big deal for eating food in edible plastic. i think its healthier.
dear people
EDIBLE EDIBLE
EDIBLE
EDIBLE
what does it take to make you understand??????
Can you not appreciate the good this can do? All the plastics bags I see flying around in the wind here in egypt could be gotten rid of! You could have bags decompose! Do you not get what I mean?
Ya' killin' me, ya' really killin' me!
Well, I guess I might but the thought of what damage that could possibly do to the environment would kind of make me say no. So I would say maybe.
well, I dont know...it is plastic, and why would someone eat plastic? I'd have to see what it looks like first.
Plastic? Eating it? Not for me. I like to keep my body healthy and natural. A lot of things are edible, that doesn't necessarilly mean that you Should eat them.
I disagree. I firmly believe that anything that can be eaten should be eaten. Why else would it be edible? That's what edible means.
Without my philospohy, no one would buy Hot Pockets, and we wouldn't have people like that guy who eats cars.
Think of the old children's rhyme:
"Dieter, Dieter, candlestick eater,
Why do you eat what you eat?
Kiddies, kiddies, my little pretties,
to me wax and brass are a treat.
I chew and I swallow
All metal and tallow,
And sit by myself in the dark.
Yummy yummy, down to my tummy,
And out through the hole in my seat."
It always scared me as a kid, but now it kind of makes sense.
I would have to be told why the food isn't natrally safe. If there IS a reason then that's reason enough not to eat it.
we need some gunk in our food. it shouldnt be perfectly sanitary.
i guess i would if it was ok to eat.?
I sure would eat it. Everything all goes to the same place, and what doesn't hurt us only makes us stronger.
eating anything unnatural like that is oging to be called cancerous in 10 years! You just know thaht will happen. so maybe if it's proven 100 percent perfect after about 10 years, then i will CONSIDER eating it. Plastic can not be ggood for you.
I said yes beacuse it would make me heathier and i don't thiink it would have any taste! n
Well, it's a new discovery. We can't say its safe. Everyone converted to "artificial food" tv dinners fastfood. nobody thought it was bad for you. It is though. Organic food is healthier than unorganic. But the fact that we have that term...in some countries its a given that if you buy fruit it IS going to be organic. especially third world countries. in that way the US is way unhealthy. So, no, i wouldn't eat it.
well techniqually ecoli originates only in the warm bacterially infected areas, therefore only when we allow food to rot does it effect our day to day activity.
I love the taste of plastic in the morning!!!
If the outer shell is edible, how clean is it? Can you wash it off without damaging it or exposing the contents?
even if the, plastic is edible, the plastic may have been touching other things making it dirty and the you are ingesting it. i think it would be safer to remove plastic before eating it for safety reasons. the food would also probably taste differently than before edible plastic.
Totally if its edatable its etable
Yuck
help me i'am going down in a sea of plastic. wash it cook it eat it do it with good health in mind and the weak can die.
this is a really hard question i did not understand anything I really dont know if i like it or not
Um no. That is above wrong. We weren't made to eat plastic, and the food that comes from stores should already be good. It is their job, the people who get the food ready for the stores, to make sure our food is fit to eat. I know I like water that tastes like plastic, but I would never EAT it. It's weird, that topic, and would it really big a huge success? I don't think so.
I would have to get used t o the idea
Maybe, but probably not I maen think about it; PLASTIC!!! It kinda makes me feel sick thinking about eating plastic it's nasty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Edible Plastic" makes me think of and remember quizically, that candy product of years ago : WAX POP BOTTLES. Where you'd eat that waxy, plastic, bottle-concoction just to get at the thin stream of colored syrup
.(it was quite a mouthful of Chewy Plastic that you had to somehow get down your throat, all for the anticipated REWARD of getting to the colorful strip of cherry-syrup)
plastic is yucky!!!!
i think that it would just be gross because even if it was edible it probably not taste good and you may get sick if it's now garenteed for anything. all i'm saying is that it would be very gross!! no one would eat it!!
Why would you eat plastic? Even if it's edible. That's in sane.
It seems like these poll-takers don't realize that most fruits and veggies at the grovery store are wax-coated already. If it bothers anyone, there are products like FIT to take it off safely before they eat it. You can feel the difference in texture after you use it...it's weird. But nice.
thi is a weird poll...
i don't wanna die
so don't die. dont eat it.
I think that eating food with plastic is sick and it makes you sick also you could loose quite a coulple of natrural abilitibies
what if there wasnt a rite answer?????????????
wat would you do?????????
since I'm not crazy, no.
It depends on how the plastic tastes...
Itmight help us keep food cleaner