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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)
👊🇺🇸🔥
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.
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
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.
Ass cancer is the price for freedum!
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.
Was anything signed? Last I read, it was only some kind of oral promise.
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.
Do you have a valid source for that claim?
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 think no one cooks or something?
Edit. Apparently cooking is bad if you’re American.
I don’t see show cooking oversugared toxins is gonna make them less toxic.
I do think that about the USA actually, yes.
Warming food in microwave isn’t cooking.
Oh, ok, so you’re just a smug self-important asshole. Got it.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
Fat, happy and docile, the way we like them. - US business
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.
WEAKENED regulations??? How much weaker could they get???
DO.NOT.CHALLENGE.THEM!
Regulations so weak they kNoOoOoW they can’t beat you
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.
I mean the EU will legalise some new PFAS next week
Can you share something to read on it?
All right I wasn’t accurate, my apologies. It wasn’t PFAS but pesticides and it wasn’t next week. Between all the shit going on I got mixed up.
The most American thing to eat right now is a bullet. Fuck my goddamn country.
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]
Wash chickens lunch?
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.
Yes, thank you. Reference the need for washing chickens in bleach. My silly typing without checking. Most of the rest of the world use quality assurance rather than forgetting about standards and relying upon the nuclear option to make terribly prepared poultry slightly safer.
My typo, corrected now. One-handed typing on a train does not always work well.
Avoid 🇺🇸 companies like McDonalds and Burger King(Restaurant Brands International)
Yum foods as well (KFC/Taco Bell) which is a subdivision of PepsiCo.
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
A meme template can be used in different ways than its first user originally intended, doesn’t make it wrong… If it’s funny, it works. The end.
I agree since memes shouldn’t be limited to one way.
It’s not funny and it doesn’t work, because the meme template was used incorrectly.
Are we gatekeeping meme templates, really? Damn.
We always have, I’ve never seen a meme template used incorrectly without lots of comments calling it out for being wrong, even when it was actually funny.
See idgaf about how a template is used as long as it’s funny. If it’s used incorrectly but is funny it’s a ‘spin’ or variant or remix or even a ‘subversion’ if the joke is about the template itself (meta commentary).
The former shows knowledge of the template and intent.
But if it is unfunny and it’s used incorrectly then oftentimes it is so because it’s used incorrectly.
The latter shows a lack of knowledge of the template and lack of intention.
This all also applies to art
And just like art, it’s all subjective. Someone will always find it funny, perhaps even a clever use of the template.
Gatekeeping memes is absurd, always has been. You find it funny, great. You don’t, bummer. Move on.
Just like art.
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 I’m staying away it’s just that I’m worrying about others who aren’t paying attention to the wickedness in Uncle Sam.
sad though. What if i go there illegally and only eat vegan food
Yeah the US sucks but it’s always funny to me when y’all on TERF island try to act morally superior as if Brits aren’t responsible for colonizing this place and the rest of the world, creating Israel etc. calm the fuck down with this bullshit moral superiority.
Also reform just won so you’re totally fucked too.
The working class of Britain aren’t responsible for the crimes of the ruling capitalist class or it’s captive government.
Is it wrong for them to be proud of their hard won food standards?
Also reform just won so you’re totally fucked too.
Reform won what?
UK going full Nazi
The brits are fuckhead about a lot of things but I think their farmer lobby is a bit less powerful there since they import all their food anyway (nobody grows on their god forgotten island). The US is an agrarian powerhouse so it makes sense their lobbies are more powerful.
Look at the french, the’re colonisers but food isn’t something they joke about. If they were forced to eat what you guys calls cheese they would start beheading real quick.
Oh yeah for sure but the reason the US exists is still their fault.
not sure if the brits keeping their empire would have been any better lmao
Haha! I already avoided going to USA for being the fucking leech sucking all the blood of the world, now I extra super duper avoid it!
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Red wine in canada was so full of sulfite that it tasted all acid and shitty
