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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 166 points 2 months ago

WEAKENED regulations??? How much weaker could they get??? Our diet is already 103% high fructose corn syrup. The other 47% is grease!

SOME people tell me that those numbers don't add up, but I checked. They do add up. 103% + 47%. Those are the numbers! What? You think I'm wrong??? I'm using the same math skills they taught in 11th grade at public schools, here in the USA! Basic math! I know my stuff! Even Scott Steiner checked my math. He said it spells disaster for you at sacrifice!

Hey, at least it's HFCS and not lead... You only need to figure it out that lead is clearly a better sweetener and then, as a stabilizer, start using asbestos.

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago
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[-] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 25 points 2 months ago

It's a historical fact that Europeans are very bad at math, since they waste so much time on useless topics like history in school. In the US, we do it right: The Book about American history is about 3 times thicker than the world history book! No time wasted on heathen stuff like the Age of Enlightenment or the blasphemic utterings of old greeks!

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[-] danekrae@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Fat, happy and docile, the way we like them. - US business

[-] isgleas@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago

WEAKENED regulations??? How much weaker could they get???

DO.NOT.CHALLENGE.THEM!

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[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 117 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] elbiter@lemmy.world 60 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 37 points 2 months ago

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.

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

Americans eat like they believe in God's salvation.

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[-] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago

Do you have a valid source for that claim?

[-] rapchee@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago
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[-] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 12 points 2 months ago

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

[-] viking@infosec.pub 11 points 2 months ago

Nah the UK adopted EU food safety standards in full and didn't get rid of them post brexit.

...yet.

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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
[-] 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

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[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 56 points 2 months ago

About 10 years ago I worked for a company that wrote software for restaurants' food safety inspectors in South Dakota... All 3 of them... 3 people to inspect every restaurant in the entire state. They were over 5 years behind on some of the inspections.

If that's how food safety was prioritized back then, just think what it must be like today.

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[-] AliSaket@mander.xyz 42 points 2 months ago

Joke's on us. Remember the 'great deal' for 15% tariffs? Guess what was included in that. Yep: Better access to the EU market for US agricultire products and the axing of what they call "unfair" trade barriers. Which includes among others plant-health measures, health regulations, vehicle safety regulations and more generally easier mutual recognition of assessments of conformity.

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wrong meme template. This one is for when you see somebody else getting in trouble for a thing you're doing wrong too.

What you wanted was something more like the Jeremy Clarkson "Oh no! Anyway..." template.

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[-] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Eating food is now a lottery in the US. The EU and UK abhor the idea of needing to wash chickens in bleach. Standards are ready so poor that this isn't sufficient to keep people safe. [Edited, managed to type "for lunch" instead of "in bleach". One handed typing on train excuse]

[-] JillyB@beehaw.org 10 points 2 months ago
[-] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I assume they are referencing the US practice of washimg chicked carcases in chlorine.

The EU claims that allowing that type of washing makes producers less incetiviced to avoid bacterial contamination elsewhere in the production chain and therefore more likely to expose customer to disease. US companies treat the animals like shit, and treat the meat like shit and then argue that washing the carcases in chlorine solves it and makes it a more competetive product that they really want to sell on the EU market.

The US market only ever optimise for cost. So they get shitty products. Since they have lots of monopoly going on, they get shitty and expensive combo. Other markets try to make 'good products' competetive and regulate markets, so the products available will be good and reasonably priced.

Allowing sub standard US products on the market will make for more expensive and more dangerous products.

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[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was born in a country where my mom constantly worried abot food safety and constantly lectures me about how dangeous food can be, she told me she breastfed me because she didn't trust the baby formulas.

Now we get to experience nostalgia!¹ 🫠

Didn't even need to return to my birth country...

(¹nostalgia of having to worry about food safety again)

👊🇺🇸🔥

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[-] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

The most American thing to eat right now is a bullet. Fuck my goddamn country.

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 24 points 2 months ago

They had food and safety regulations?

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

Beef must contain at least 35% beef to be called beef in the states. That is the level of regulations they had, so now? Does beef need any cow?

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[-] xep@discuss.online 24 points 2 months ago

I've avoided all food from America for more than a decade.

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[-] maam@feddit.uk 18 points 2 months ago

The worry is that your family will go to the US and eat something awful and become maimed.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 49 points 2 months ago

The secret trick is not going to the US until radical changes in their government.

The world is a big place with many things to see, just choose some other country for your vacations.

[-] maam@feddit.uk 12 points 2 months ago

Oh I’m staying away it’s just that I’m worrying about others who aren’t paying attention to the wickedness in Uncle Sam.

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[-] CMahaff@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

I think a lot of Americans would be surprised, like I was when I moved here, that EU stores will sell chicken products from China, but not the United States.

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[-] arin@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Avoid 🇺🇸 companies like McDonalds and Burger King(Restaurant Brands International)

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[-] running_system@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago

I seem to be out of the loop. What happened?

[-] maam@feddit.uk 48 points 2 months ago

The EPA Is Embracing PFAS Pesticides. These Are The Health Risks

https://time.com/7336883/epa-pfas-pesticides-health-risks/

FDA poised to kill proposal that would require asbestos testing for cosmetics

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/28/fda-proposal-asbestos-testing-talc-cosmetics

Trump blames others but Washington air crash comes amid upheaval in US aviation

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/trump-washington-plane-crash-analysis

Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts

https://www.propublica.org/article/foreign-food-safety-inspections-historic-low-fda

[-] goldfndr@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago

From the first article:

Worse, there is no firm definition of exactly what a PFAS is—at least in the United States. The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which works with 38 member nations including the U.S. to foster international cooperation and economic growth, defines PFAS as industrial chemicals that have at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom—which is a carbon atom with two or three fluorine atoms attached to it. There are about 15,000 species of chemicals that meet that standard. But the EPA has pushed back, broadening the definition to two fully fluorinated carbon atoms. “The final definition does not include substances that only have a single fluorinated carbon,” the agency wrote in its formal report in 2023—during Joe Biden’s presidency. That change is worrying.

A minimum of 2 fully fluorinated carbon atoms instead of 1 is NOT broadening the definition. That's narrowing it.

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[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Ass cancer is the price for freedum!

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