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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.
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!
Fat, happy and docile, the way we like them. - US business
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.
How do you think we became the richest country on earth? Capitalism run amok and fucking people over.
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
Nah the UK adopted EU food safety standards in full and didn't get rid of them post brexit.
...yet.
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.
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.
Your experience is not universal, but it is also not unique. South Dakota has one of the lowest population densities in America and I think you'll find if you look around that most places similar to it have similar experiences with food safety inspections, in restaurants and in manufacturing, worldwide.
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.
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)
๐๐บ๐ธ๐ฅ
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.
The most American thing to eat right now is a bullet. Fuck my goddamn country.
They had food and safety regulations?
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?
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.
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 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
These things are for sure whatโs giving me anxiety as an American. Iโm trying to start a community garden for those who live in apartments and cannot grow their own food. Otherwise I donโt know what to do. It seems history teaches us revolting is the only way out of this but I donโt see Americans actually doing that. They will not even strike.
Ass cancer is the price for freedum!
I am consistently shocked how much higher quality the food is in France and The NL when I visit; even the sloppy mall restaurants were higher quality. Paris was off the charts. The worst quality food we had there was above average for here.