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Default India weaponizes the deadly bhut jolokia chili pepper

On 8/1/2012 2:17 AM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
> "Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
> ...
>> They're extracting the capsaicin from it.
>> A big boon to the small farmers that grow it.
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>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...n-army-farmers
>>
>> I wonder if it's actually cheaper than making
>> capsaicin synthetically.

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> When you have 700 million people working for 2 bucks a day, yeah it is
> cheaper.
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> Paul
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I didn't know they got that much? Are they the same folks that make all
of those shiny ipads, iphones and iwhatevers?