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80% of Pre-Packaged Foods in America Are Banned in Other Countries
Babble. com ^ | June 24, 2013

Posted on 06/24/2013 5:04:31 PM PDT by opentalk

If you or your kids enjoy pre-packaged convenience foods commonly found in grocery stores across the U.S. such as Froot Loops, Swanson dinners, Mountain Dew, and frozen potato and bread products, you may think twice before purchasing them after hearing what they contain: dangerous chemicals that other countries around the globe have deemed toxic to the point that they're illegal, and companies are fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for including them in food products.

In a new book Rich Food, Poor Food, authors Mira and Jason Calton provide a list of what they term "Banned Bad Boys" - ingredients commonly used in up to 80% of all American convenience food that have been banned by other countries, with information about which countries banned each substance and why.

And though it might not surprise you to hear that Olestra -commonly used in low/no-fat snack foods and known to cause serious gastrointestinal issues for those who consume it (understatement) - is on that list, having been banned in both the United Kingdom and Canada, you may be shocked to hear that Mountain Dew, Fresca and Squirt all contain brominated vegetable oil, a substance that has been banned in more than 100 countries "because it has been linked to basically every form of thyroid disease - from cancer to autoimmune diseases - known to man."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: fda; food; monsanto
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To: CrazyIvan

Always fun to have the city kids come to the farm!

Did they ever take you snipe hunting?


61 posted on 06/24/2013 7:24:02 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: nomad

Oh, I agree. Just the hysteria in the article esp. about how some of the chemicals had eeevvvviiilllllll uses annoyed me.


62 posted on 06/24/2013 7:24:32 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: opentalk

BookMark for later reading.


63 posted on 06/24/2013 7:34:41 PM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: Grams A

No. After my complete failure at cow tipping they said I wasn’t qualified.


64 posted on 06/24/2013 7:34:58 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receilpt.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

I had some I keep cold - drank a big glass. Am I gonna die?


65 posted on 06/24/2013 7:38:21 PM PDT by GOPJ (... liberal anger - - the privileged wheeze of entitled brats ... Greenfield)
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To: GOPJ

People must be free to eat whatever they want to eat. Period.


66 posted on 06/24/2013 7:39:41 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: GOPJ
Am I gonna die?

Statistically, yes. 100% probability.

67 posted on 06/24/2013 7:55:27 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Grams A

Yup. We use to tell em we raised naugas for the hide.


68 posted on 06/24/2013 8:04:57 PM PDT by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: opentalk

It has a lot more to do with they are more nanny than even we are, not that the food is bad.


69 posted on 06/24/2013 8:05:17 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: nomad
It`s f-ing water.

That's precisely the point.

70 posted on 06/24/2013 8:07:48 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: exDemMom

In a way, it’s like brand extension. People of a certain persuasion think organic = good, while chemical = bad. They have no idea what the words actually mean. Given the plasticity of the English language, those words will soon be corrupted beyond recognition.

Dang! The corruption has already happened. Right after I wrote the above, I checked the definition of “organic” using an on-line dictionary. Here’s one of the definitions:

d. Simple, healthful, and close to nature: an organic lifestyle.

So, I guess, “organic salt” (Na-Cl) is supposed to be simple, healthful, and close to nature. As opposed to the inorganic mineral salt I’ve been ingesting all my life, which remains one of those evil chemicals.

One of the great strengths of the English language is how adaptive it is. Apparently, that’s also its greatest weakness. If enough self-righteous ignoramuses call salt “organic”; then, against all reason, salt can be organic. (Once again, we’re talking about Na-Cl — not actual organic (i.e. containing carbon) salts


71 posted on 06/24/2013 8:21:20 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: GOPJ
I had some I keep cold - drank a big glass. Am I gonna die?

People who consume dihydrogen monoxide invariably die.

72 posted on 06/24/2013 8:53:24 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Grams A
“Hold your nose when you drink your milk, Molly has been in the weeds again!”

Ah yes, I remember the onion milk.

73 posted on 06/24/2013 8:54:30 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: opentalk

I sorta doubt they are that dangerous. I think it’s just rejection of free market products.


74 posted on 06/24/2013 9:05:40 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: SamAdams76

>>>I support the right of U.S. food companies to distribute toxic pre-packaged convenience foods.

I exercise the right not to eat them.<<<

Good point. But it is true that food standards in America are low.


75 posted on 06/24/2013 9:51:54 PM PDT by cunning_fish
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To: Grams A

did you make them carry bags and beat the ground with a stick???


76 posted on 06/24/2013 9:55:38 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

“...I was going to ask for organic table salt...”

I read a report recently somewhere that was talking about how buyers must be careful when buying “sea salt” because of heavy metal and bacterial contamination.


77 posted on 06/24/2013 10:24:04 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: VanShuyten

Aha! That’s probably why I recently developed a taste for sea salt — a deficiency of heavy metals.


78 posted on 06/25/2013 12:55:23 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

To me, an organic salt would be something like Sodium acetate, which would give a salt-and-vinegar flavor. However, I don’t think that those who run organic food stores ever sat through an organic chemistry class.


79 posted on 06/25/2013 1:26:02 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: opentalk

Those numbers are about useless among developed countries, because deaths at birth are treated so differently among them.


80 posted on 06/25/2013 1:43:26 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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