Not true: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776466

You can always change the foods it's allowed to use, though, just hit the Choose Foods button.

Good link. There's plenty more (in pubmed) where that came from!

Seriously this 1980s alarmism needs to stop.

I agree you shouldn't have been downvoted for that. In my opinion, there's far too much downvoting going on at the moment on HN. People should remember that it's only a way to express that you feel a post is inappropriate to the discussion, not that you disagree with the sentiments of the post.