I felt a strange urge to buy me some bugs and let them eat my plastic garbage after watching this video 😂
Someone commented that microplastics would still emerge during/after bugs have dealt with plastics.
Do we have any bug existing that could eliminate microplastics as well?
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Gluten is neither synthetic nor semisynthetic.
It’s semisynthetic. Gluten doesn’t appear in nature on its own. Just like viscose is a semisynthetic variant of cellulose.
No, it occurs naturally in grains. Fucking look it up. I’m a biochemist, i know this shit. Here, fuck it: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28244676/.
This comment is on the edge for rule 6 “Use appropriate language and tone.” I’d appreciate it if you’d edit the language to be more professional.
Thank you for providing a source in your comment!
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Im dealing with all rule breaking behavior. The unsourced comments have now been removed as the user is unable to provide a source to backup their claim. The comments that break civility rules, including this one, are also being removed.
Please report rule 9 violations so that we can act on them.
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Per rule 9, please provide a credible source for the statement “Gluten doesn’t appear in nature on its own”
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The source provided by another user gives a definitive counter argument.
From the article: “ The wheat kernel contains 8%–15% of protein, from which 10%–15% is albumin/globulin and 85%–90% is gluten (Fig. 1).1 Gluten is a complex mixture of hundreds of related but distinct proteins, mainly gliadin and glutenin. Different wheat varieties vary in protein content and in the composition and distribution of gluten proteins.”
Gluten is a protein, nobody would call it a plastic
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Per rule 9, please provide a source for the statement that gluten is a “synthetic or semi-synthetic organic polymer”.
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loads of organisms that can digest gluten already exist. Not so much for polyethylene etc. Also gluten is made of proteins with definite length not polymers
Also every protein is a polymer.
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Let me school you on this one, too. There are polymethylsilanes, polyphosphazines, etc. You aren’t even aware of common polymers like PVC that fall outside of your categories. There’s more exotic stuff like polyferrocenes. You ought to quit spouting off about things you know nothing about.
What? Lol ook.
Also PLA can be suggested by microorganisms.
irrelevant
How’s that irrelevant? PLA is a plastic. And can be digested. As well as cellophane. Also plastic and can also be digested.
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It’s not a binary choice