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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.
I give them a year.
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!
US history and World History are taught as two separate subjects. Ypu should know more of your own history than that of foreign nations because US history is more directly relevant to modern Americans lives than say the Crusades or the history of Denmark would be.
A lot of what you are complaining about is that the USA isn't as Eurocentric as you would hope they would be.
I'd say it is rather important to know where you are coming from. The people colonizing the USA did not appear out of thin air, but out of a complex group of nations with a wealth of backgrounds, which is completely lost if you don't learn enough about the world at large. And this is not about eurocentrism at all, since there are a lot of people out of African and Asian nations too.
I also think it is not surprising that the average American doesn't know shit about the complicated development of the human race, which comes with a shocking ignorance towards ideas like humanism and why the founding fathers were so adamant about the separation of church and state, which is increasingly becoming lost in the USA (hint: it's because the founding fathers knew about all this stuff!).
If you compress 10,000 years into a third of 250 years, this is what you get.
Fat, happy and docile, the way we like them. - US business
Even Scott Steiner checked my math.
Seems like
Oh wtf Matt Damon is the lead on that? I did not remember that and now I feel kinda old for that.
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.
Americans eat as if they had an excellent healthcare system. Or a healthcare system at all.
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.
Americans eat like they believe in God's salvation.
Do you have a valid source for that claim?
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
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.
To be clear this was almost 120 years ago
And also somehow just a few years from now at the same time.
What?! Yikes
OP forgot to mention that everything they were talking about was going on over 119 years ago as the FDA was founded in 1906
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
Wood is too healthy for the American population
Not even real wood, wood thinner and artificial wood pulp made out of microplastics
You should see what we call Parmesan cheese over here.
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
They already add sawdust to a ton of shit.
Ja, they label it as cellulose. Technically true and something that does have valid food manufacturing uses, but using it as filler is ridiculous.
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.
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.
European food safety regulators aren't the best according to OP, so not entirely wrong
Nothing is perfect but EU food regulations are pretty fantastic.
I work in the food industry in my country. Can confirm. The amount of test we have to pass so a new machine can be added to the production line is borderline paranoic. But as a result, the worst incident that happens is when a product doesn't freeze in the right position and the customer opens it and it's ugly. It's bad for the company, because the product is not good looking but hey, at least there's no risk of killing someone with it.
AFAIK eggs are done 'differently' (with pros and cons compared to the processing in the US, but no clear winner) and there's more access to certain types of raw milk products, but otherwise it seems to me that Euro regulators are more cautious than US ones. I think in a lot of cases new stuff here is "allow it until it's proven unsafe," while there it's more often "ban it until its proven safe."
So same template but for dystopian surveillance and blaming immigrants for everything
The most American thing to eat right now is a bullet. Fuck my goddamn country.
The worry is that your family will go to the US and eat something awful and become maimed.
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.
Oh Iโm staying away itโs just that Iโm worrying about others who arenโt paying attention to the wickedness in Uncle Sam.
Avoid ๐บ๐ธ companies like McDonalds and Burger King(Restaurant Brands International)
Yum foods as well (KFC/Taco Bell) which is a subdivision of PepsiCo.
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.
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.
Tin Foil Hat time: So what the gov/corps wants to do is make those people who cook their own food become sick/distrustful of safe food so they buy the heavily processed premade products from the tobbacco...I mean FOOD companies filled with all their artificial ingredients that hook you into a junk food addiction downward spiral.
....now that I say (write) that out loud (virtually) it doesn't sound that far fetched
I seem to be out of the loop. What happened?
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
Ass cancer is the price for freedum!
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 ๐ซ
Didn't even need to return to my birth country...
(ยนnostalgia of having to worry about food safety again)
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