Monkey puppet meme looking away. Europeans watching the US weaken food and safety regulations.
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[โ€“] 127 points 11 months ago (62 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€“] 67 points 11 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€“] 41 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    How do you think we became the richest country on earth? Capitalism run amok and fucking people over.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Why do you believe the USA is the richest country in the world?

    You are without a doubt the country in the world with the most debt however.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 11 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€“] 19 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    Do you have a valid source for that claim?

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    To expand on this example, people worry about the bleach when they hear this but it's not used at dangerous levels as I remember it.

    The issue is the meat is so disgusting in the first place it needs to be washed to not kill off its consumers. We don't wash meat in Europe, because we have standards

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    To go even further, in Japan they have a breed of chicken so clean that it's eaten as sushi. Here in the US, undercooked chicken or unwashed eggs are a salmonella risk - as is pretty much any other food due to contamination. There was a massive recall on lettuce a few years ago across the country for salmonella contamination.

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  • Nah, Japan just takes that risk and minimizes it by butchering the chicken much closer to the time it us served. In the USA your bird was killed much earlier and preserved by chilling/freezing.

    Thereโ€™s no magic breed of chicken that has no salmonella.

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  • [+] -9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (41 children)

    Do you think no one cooks or something?

    Edit. Apparently cooking is bad if you're American.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I don't see show cooking oversugared toxins is gonna make them less toxic.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    are you buying the meat from a butcher that only sources from local farmers? If you can afford that, yeah it's probably on par with what Euros can buy in a grocery store. If you can't afford that, then it doesn't really matter if you're the one cooking it or not, the meat is gonna be low quality.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 11 months ago

    Most American cities no longer have local butchers, it's not like Europe. Many are reliant on bigbox stores for their base necessities especially in rural areas. So it's not even a class issue, it's an accessibility issue. It's the reason why companies started rolling out subscriptions like Butcher Box. You'd never see that sort of thing take off in Europe.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 11 months ago (30 children)

    I do think that about the USA actually, yes.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 11 months ago (28 children)

    "the rest of the world" / "Europe" / "Nordics"

    Take your pick.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC300778/

    Fat land: how Americans became the fattest people in the world Reviewed by: Samuel Klein Greg Critser.. Fat land: how Americans became the fattest people in the world. 2004.University of California Press: Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.224 pp. $24.00. ISBN: 0-618-16472-3 (hardcover).Inline graphic

    We are in the midst of a national obesity crisis, and Americans are getting heavier. Today, about 65% of adults and 15% of children and adolescents in the US are overweight or obese.

    Two thirds of adults are obese. that's horrifying.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 months ago (26 children)

    I would agree, but she can still walk herself to where she needs to go. Can yours?

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (16 children)

    Get new material you fucking idiot creep.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 months ago (13 children)

    It's fun to see how your replies get shorter and shorter. Getting a bit fatigued at replying? But you can't end. Not even when you're making a clown of yourself, because you're still deluding yourself that somehow "getting the last word" will mean you "win".

    Well I can tell you that none of that is happening. You're not gonna get the last reply, because I'll be replying. But unlike you, I can actually follow the rules instead of spamming childish insults. Secondly, because I've gone months deep into a thread to wear people like you out and I always win. Thirdly, becuase there's no "winning" in a fight. And if you think that's contradicting the previous sentence, it isn't. I don't consider myself "a winner" of the argument in any way, no, that's just discussion. I consider myself a winner of the test of endurance when I get you to stop deluding yourself.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 months ago (12 children)
  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 months ago (5 children)

    Because for me, it's definitely discussing neurodevelopmental disorders, but you can't even discuss, let alone discuss a highly complicated medical subject. So why did you pretend you can?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)
  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 months ago

    Bots will have stored all your spam as well, so even if you delete it, it's not gone. You've permanently marked yourself as being this childish online.

    I really hope for your sake that you actually are a child.

    That would explain why you can't even spend a few minutes on Wikipedia reading up on neurodevelopmental disorders.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    quote of the day, buddy.

    So why are you in this thread? Is it to "own" me or to discuss the prevalence of neurodevelopmental disorders?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    I myself wouldn't use such material, but using your own words, perhaps:

    Why won't you discuss the prevalence of neurodevelopmental disorders? Is it because you don't know what one is? Then why pretend you did?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    You're here literally only because you can't let go, because I made you slightly ashamed of your ignorance. So now you're trying to get revenge by showing everyone that you definitely are angry, childish and irrational.

    Way to own me!

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    No, Iโ€™m here because you are absurdly easy to troll.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 months ago

    Again, you're literally acting like a toddler for everyone to see, and you think the joke is on me. I've had almost a bottle of wine and had to take 1200mg of ibuprofen because of how hard you're making my sides hurt with your tantrum. :DD

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