Monkey puppet meme looking away. Europeans watching the US weaken food and safety regulations.

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[โ€“] 166 points 9 months ago (15 children)

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!

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  • [โ€“] 35 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 25 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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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    [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€“] 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€“] 78 points 9 months ago* (12 children)

    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

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  • [โ€“] 46 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)
  • [โ€“] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [โ€“] 17 points 9 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

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    [โ€“] 56 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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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    [โ€“] 42 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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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    [โ€“] 31 points 9 months ago* (11 children)

    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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    [โ€“] 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    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]

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    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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  • [โ€“] 30 points 9 months ago* (7 children)

    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!ยน ๐Ÿซ 

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

    (ยนnostalgia of having to worry about food safety again)

    ๐Ÿ‘Š๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ”ฅ

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    [โ€“] 25 points 9 months ago

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

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  • [โ€“] 24 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    They had food and safety regulations?

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    [โ€“] 24 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

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    [โ€“] [S] 18 points 9 months ago (17 children)

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

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  • [โ€“] 49 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [โ€“] 17 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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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    [โ€“] 14 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Avoid ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ companies like McDonalds and Burger King(Restaurant Brands International)

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    [โ€“] 11 points 9 months ago (14 children)

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

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  • [โ€“] [S] 48 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    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

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    From the first article:

    Worse, there is no firm definition of exactly what a PFAS isโ€”at least in the United States. The Paris-basedย 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 atomโ€”which is a carbon atom with two or three fluorine atoms attached to it. There are aboutย 15,000 species of chemicalsย that meet that standard. But the EPAย has pushed back, broadening the definition to two fully fluorinated carbon atoms. โ€œThe final definition does not include substances that only have a single fluorinated carbon,โ€ the agency wrote in its formal report in 2023โ€”during Joe Bidenโ€™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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