What are you talking about. You totally misunderstood what I was saying... completely! I wasn't saying well there is no point in giving a fuck. My diet is mainly whole foods of excellent quality. It mainly consists of beef, chicken, fish (all the previous 3 of good quality and not that crap pumped full of hormones, water etc), coconut oil, olive oil, fruits (pineapple, acai, blueberries, apples, raspberries, passion fruit etc, sweet potatoes, brown rice, oats, whole eggs, greek yoghurt etc etc. My protein powder has no sweetners or fillers in and is of excellent quality... hey I don't even get it flavoured.
And the other poster calling me irrational... ha. My whole point was (by the way I am not saying this about you but just generally)... people tend to pick and choose about certain things in life. You could be totally different. I used to manage my own bodybuilding shop (selling supplements, fruits, nuts, other foods etc) and I would get people come in saying this sweetner causes cancer etc etc. But many of them were on gear they bought from some unknown. They pick and choose.
The starter of this thread gets it. I never directly answered his question because that was the point he was trying to make. He wanted to find out cause by his knowledge there is no evidence stating a clear answer. I believe whole foods are better for various reasons. But I also believe powders can be better for other reasons too. I use them for convenience. Sometimes I can't be bothered making 400g steaks and pasta at 1am so I may have a shake instead with some nuts or coconut oil or whatever I decide to do. I have never had any issues with preotein powders... apart from when I used some crap one I knew was full of fillers and other shite.
So when you read posts in the futute try and use some common sense.