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Their goods just got a whole lot less appealing (feddit.uk)

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[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 78 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It may be shocking that American food can get any worse considering they're 50% corn syrup and 50% microplastics but somehow American corporations found a way, soon they'll probrally start adding sawdust to bread like they used to before the FDA

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 46 points 2 months ago

You think that's bad, milk was so much worse. Companies fed cows leftover brewing grains which made their milk shitty, added cow brain to imitate cream, plaster of Paris to whiten it, and formaldehyde to preserve it. Thousands of kids died because of it and it's a big part of why the FDA was founded in the first place.

[-] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago

To be clear this was almost 120 years ago

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

And also somehow just a few years from now at the same time.

[-] foofiepie@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

What?! Yikes

[-] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

OP forgot to mention that everything they were talking about was going on over 119 years ago as the FDA was founded in 1906

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 months ago

I didn't forget, the context of who I replied to said "like they used to before the FDA" and I provided an example of what was happening before the FDA. Also yeah it was over a hundred years ago but what do you suppose has made stories like swill milk seem like a thing of the past? It's not capitalists being more enlightened or empathetic it's regulation. Those stories and more are going to pop back up again as the US guts the FDA

[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 30 points 2 months ago

Wood is too healthy for the American population

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 2 months ago

Not even real wood, wood thinner and artificial wood pulp made out of microplastics

[-] Alenalda@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

You should see what we call Parmesan cheese over here.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

They already add sawdust to a ton of shit.

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Ja, they label it as cellulose. Technically true and something that does have valid food manufacturing uses, but using it as filler is ridiculous.

[-] Numberone@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

Unclear how true this is but I was told years ago that Taco Bell cut their beef with cellulose...so...cardboard so Jokes on you, we may have figured out the sawdust angle years ago. Capitalist innovation baby

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