Page 56 - Bulletin, Vol.82 No.1, April 2023

If you want to try out ChatGPT, you can This article is certified to have been
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start by watching the short tutorial which written without the help of ChatGPT! but is
will give you some basic tips before based on a file published in the "Courrier
jumping into the AI deep end. International" newspaper in February
2023.

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Editor's note: tested for you, it's amazing....
If you want to know more please read
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NEW Special : April Issue
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And UN TODAY :April Issue
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1 https://youtu.be/8kIxMUrdLQw
2 https://newspecial.org/newspecial-avril-2023/
3 https://untoday.org/project/un-today-april-2023/

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SCHELLAC OR NOT SCHELLAC

By Odette FOUDRAL

"Everything about pigs is good" was the claim made in advertisements in the 20th
century. So we lived through the years of plenty, only in Europe, when all the
advertising encouraged us to eat more... always more.

But sometimes life has a funny way of doing things. We are now closely following the
crusade (for it is indeed a crusade) of vegans and anti-speciesists who would like a
world without animal protein. Personally, I don't mind as long as I'm free to poison
myself with a good steak. However, I find it a bit "fort de Roquefort" that they don't hunt
down the additives of animal origin that slip into food without being mentioned.

By the way: why is there sugar in butter!!! (295 possible additives according to Open
FOOD facts)

1 Shellac, or shellac in Canada, is a laqu e derived from the secretion of an Asian mealy bug,
Kerria lacca. Shellac is edible and is used as a wax on candies and pills. Its alkaline properties
make it interesting for protecting a medicine during transit through the digestive tract and
releasing the active ingredient at the right place (in the small intestine or colon)13. In
agriculture, it is used to protect apples that lose their natural wax during harvesting and
cleaning14. As such, it is coded E904 as a food additive15. Vegans avoid this product as it is of
animal origin.
Shellac can be a contact allergen. Symptoms are skin irritation
(SOURCE WIKIPEDIA)

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