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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Always fun to have the city kids come to the farm!
Did they ever take you snipe hunting?
Oh, I agree. Just the hysteria in the article esp. about how some of the chemicals had eeevvvviiilllllll uses annoyed me.
BookMark for later reading.
No. After my complete failure at cow tipping they said I wasn’t qualified.
I had some I keep cold - drank a big glass. Am I gonna die?
People must be free to eat whatever they want to eat. Period.
Statistically, yes. 100% probability.
Yup. We use to tell em we raised naugas for the hide.
It has a lot more to do with they are more nanny than even we are, not that the food is bad.
That's precisely the point.
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
People who consume dihydrogen monoxide invariably die.
Ah yes, I remember the onion milk.
I sorta doubt they are that dangerous. I think it’s just rejection of free market products.
>>>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.
did you make them carry bags and beat the ground with a stick???
“...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.
Aha! That’s probably why I recently developed a taste for sea salt — a deficiency of heavy metals.
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.
Those numbers are about useless among developed countries, because deaths at birth are treated so differently among them.
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