I was unaware until now (I'm blissfully out of the social media loop) but it appears, on Googling, that of late there has been mass hysteria on the internet over the supposed dire effects of carrageenan. As is to be expected it's all false, traced to a gross misunderstanding of a single, discredited (for highly flawed methods, materials and documentation) study that did not even study carrageenan at all, but another substance, poligeenan, which has been confused with carrageenan because of the similar name, and which is not a food additive. A mountain of legitimate studies have been done on carrageenan, the food additive, all of which confirm its completely safe nature. But of course, one ignorant blogger glomming onto one piece of misinformation can spread hysteria halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on, to paraphrase. Get your kids vaccinated, use your Whirlfloc, and don't worry about falling off the edge of the world.