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

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[โ€“] 59 points 11 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€“] 10 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 38 points 11 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€“] 166 points 11 months ago (14 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€“] 34 points 11 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€“] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    uhhh it's also lead. I had to switch to a new protein shake brand because the one I was drinking was found to have unsafe levels of lead in it, and it was difficult because several other major brands also had unsafe levels of lead.

    If it's happening in one industry, I bet it's happening in others.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Chocolate too. I love dark chocolate, but most of them were full of heavy metals. Though that is likely world wide based on the brands that had problems. Trader Joes being in there was the biggest blow in our household.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/12/16/23-of-28-dark-chocolate-bars-tested-have-high-lead-cadmium-levels/

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  • [โ€“] 26 points 11 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€“] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 11 months ago

    You know they say that all men are created equal, but you look at me and you look at Lost_My_Mind and you can see that statement is not true. See, normally if you go one on one with another commentor, you got a 50/50 chance of winning. But I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal! So you got a 25%, AT BEST, at beat me. Then you add Kurt Angle to the mix, your chances of winning drastic go down. See the 3 way at Sacrifice, you got a 33 1/3 chance of winning, but I, I got a 66 and 2/3 chance of winning, because Kurt Angle KNOWS he can't beat me and he's not even gonna try! So Lost_My_Mind, you take your 33 1/3 chance, minus my 25% chance and you got an 8 1/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. But then you take my 75% chance of winning, if we was to go one on one, and then add 66 2/3 per cents, I got 141 2/3 chance of winning at Sacrifice. See Lost, the numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you at Sacrifice.

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  • [โ€“] 75 points 11 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€“] 49 points 11 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 11 months ago (2 children)
  • [โ€“] 13 points 11 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 11 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€“] 31 points 11 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€“] 1 point 11 months ago (6 children)

    Good job moving to hell I guess.

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 11 months ago* (5 children)
    1. I didn't choose it lol, I was a kid, no choice
    2. From memory, the apartment building I used to live in my previous country was looked like it's deteriorating. Air pollusion was horrible.
    3. It was 2010 when we moved, trump wasn't even a thing.
    4. From "More Hell" to "Slighly Less Hell" is still an improvement, even if it's still in the realm of "Hell". Too bad Norway didn't accept us.
    5. Late stage capitalism aside, I kinda enjoyed the internet for the past 15 years... in my previous country, they built a wall around the internet. I didn't even have internet access by the time I left around 2010.

    So... any Europeans looking for marriage so I can get into the EU? /joke

    yeah no... lol. Sorry that I'm not rich and privilaged to get into actual good countries.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 months ago (4 children)

    You can marry me! And enjoy:

    Even worse AQI

    Doctor who graduated in googlelogy

    No anesthetic for dental care (A relative of mine says it's easier for him to tell when he hit a nerve that way)

    Sexual harrasment encouraged at work

    Nearly every country hates you

    Clean coal

    So what do you say?

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

    Is it Mongolia? Sounds like Mongolia

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  • [โ€“] 23 points 11 months ago (12 children)

    They had food and safety regulations?

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    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?

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

    Your beef can legally contain mostly not beef?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    Mine?! Oh don't put that evil nationality on me. But yes the fools in the states seem to require that something called beef needs to be comprised of at least 35% cooked beef

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    Kinda disingenuous as the list you linked is for prepared meals like beef dumplings. In what world would you consider that product to be 100% beef? lol

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Ah yes, it is I and the rest of the world that is crazy. When we ask for "beef" dumplings we clearly only want at least 35% beef inside....

    Oh and for our Beef and gravy as well:

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Well... yeah? I mean think about what a dumpling is, how much flour and water it takes to make? I don't understand your point?

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  • [โ€“] -1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    35% is low, and prepared meals include things like "beef taco filling" or "dumpling filling". You seem to think there is only 35% and 100%. Unless you are being disingenuous.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    Where did I write that? FDA is saying, hey, if you make a product that is full of ingredients other than beef, but you want to call/name it a 'beef' product, it must be at least 1/3 beef. I don't see anything wrong with that - sorry.

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

    In what world would you consider that product to be 100% beef? lol

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  • [โ€“] 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

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