They? The state uses what is available to extend its role supplanting society's role as problem solvers.

Everything seems to be based on bad science, stupidity and special interests.

What I always question is Why, all of a sudden and only in certain cases, do they care, cause, most of the time they don't

Just recently they cleared whole milk!!!! It has been for decades that whole milk was bad for you!!!

I've talked to a shirt tale relative, a pulmonary specialist. He takes lung damage seriously, claims the studies on lungs damaged by diacetyl are not at first visible but are mostly an emphysema stiffening of alveoli walls which CAN be detected by the isolation chambers and tests they perform when testing for Black Lung and the effects of smoking tobacco and pot. The effects are there and exaggerated even if a person has a mutation that inhibits lung enzymes. Risk management cannot be done without information and awareness of risky behaviors.

But if known do we need government to stop us from the inhalation of diacetyl?

oh. . you mean Jacques C. Penné, the famous French guy!!! -- j
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NO they only want us to die quickly AFTER all our insurance and assets are gone.

Its funny but there is a website that sells custom ordered roasted coffee beans that has the same initials: John Hancock Coffee.
If you want custom roast, Danno, and you don't mind paying a lot more, then that may be the solution for you. Looks like a nice site, but I like paying $4.20 a pound for Sumatra, instead of $15 for 10 oz that JHC charges to do a custom roast.

MichaelA: Who would have thought -you're a poet. Like it. ;)

Yo te daré.
Te daré una cosa.
Te daré, niña hermosa.
Una cosa que yo solo sé
¡Café!

Jesus H. Corporal? -- j
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Sometimes I wish I could do that, roast my own beans that is (perhaps even the other thing you mentioned too). If it's so bad for you, I say let someone else do it, roasting beans that is (again perhaps the other thing). My only advice, from first had experience is, don't smoke and save your money for retirement. I quit smoking about 10 years ago, but now have COPD and use a daily inhaler. At least I had a good savings plan, and just hope I have enough time to spend it and enjoy it now.

According to the same class of pundits from the 80's I should be under water at present. As a matter of fact, I should have been inundated for the last 15 years or so.

I remember as a kid, one of my jobs was at a "botique" coffee roaster, his equipment dated back to late 30's Germany... the steam & smoke when the batch dumped into the cooling tray would get you wired for about a day and a half - one of the rights of passage was to get the new person for an unload, and have them "smell the fresh roasted coffee" fresh off the roaster... then watch them twitch! --grins--

Of course, the EPA made us install all kinds of filters, was talking about forcing us to get "modern" equipment that ran remotely to remove "the blatant workplace hazard" this caused...

Dark Roast may taste a lot stronger but it actually has less caffeine. The lighter the roast the more caffeine.
I am addicted to the smell of coffee. I'll take it dark and strong even thick- type Turkish coffee.

Freedom, I am intrigued with your idea of using a popcorn popper to roast your beans... Do you just judge it by the color your aiming for and turn it off or what?

I'm sipping what Mr. Coffee made right now.
Old dino's just lazy, I guess.

I've pretty much quit coffee and switched to black tea. Way cheaper and keeps my C-reactive protein levels low, 1.4 last blood draw.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19...

This just in: dangerous to lungs to work in coal mine.

I would imagine roasting anything causes problems in confined space.

I switched to light roast, single farm/origin. Much more healthy. French press only.

Why can't workers wear 3M face mask?