Monkey puppet meme looking away. Europeans watching the US weaken food and safety regulations.
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[โ€“] 117 points 9 months ago (91 children)

YSK that average or even lower quality meat from the EU would almost always be considered 'premium' by US standards. What Americans eat on a daily basis is straight up illegal in the EU. Leave it to the richest country on the planet to feed its citizens with literal poisoned trash.

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  • [โ€“] 60 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Americans eat as if they had an excellent healthcare system. Or a healthcare system at all.

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  • [โ€“] 37 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It's the opposite: the state has no responsibility to heal anyone, so they don't give a crap about prevention through regulation.

    They eat exactly as the healthcare system they have.

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Do you have a valid source for that claim?

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 9 months ago (5 children)
  • [โ€“] 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    To expand on this example, people worry about the bleach when they hear this but it's not used at dangerous levels as I remember it.

    The issue is the meat is so disgusting in the first place it needs to be washed to not kill off its consumers. We don't wash meat in Europe, because we have standards

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    To go even further, in Japan they have a breed of chicken so clean that it's eaten as sushi. Here in the US, undercooked chicken or unwashed eggs are a salmonella risk - as is pretty much any other food due to contamination. There was a massive recall on lettuce a few years ago across the country for salmonella contamination.

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  • Nah, Japan just takes that risk and minimizes it by butchering the chicken much closer to the time it us served. In the USA your bird was killed much earlier and preserved by chilling/freezing.

    Thereโ€™s no magic breed of chicken that has no salmonella.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Can confirm. The UK has some of the most delicious meat I've tasted, and I know for a fact that someone right now living in the EU cringed internally just reading this sentence lol

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    How do you think we became the richest country on earth? Capitalism run amok and fucking people over.

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