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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: nomad; Disambiguator

The joke would appear to be on you, if you took us seriously.


81 posted on 06/25/2013 2:59:25 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
d. Simple, healthful, and close to nature: an organic lifestyle.

The problem with the "woo" definition of organic is that it is not a definition at all. ("Woo" refers to pseudoscientific quackery; it's a term I picked up at one of the science blogs.)

Sometimes, at the store, I notice the term "natural" printed on a package. That's another one I wonder about; I am hard-pressed to imagine *any* product that could be made using non-natural processes. Do manufacturers of "non-natural" products hire wizards and alchemists to make their wares through arcane means?

I do take some comfort in that stores take the effort to specify that some foods are organic. Although why they would make the effort for some produce, but not other produce is a mystery to me. I mean, I already know tree-grown peaches are organic, and that they're organic whether they're labeled that way or not. Furthermore, I can pretty much recognize a non-organic (e.g. ceramic) peach at a glance--I'd probably break my teeth trying to eat it, and I doubt it would taste very appealing. Even some organic peaches would be inedible, if the organic material is wax or plastic...

82 posted on 06/25/2013 3:44:56 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: VanShuyten
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.

I wouldn't be too concerned about bacterial contamination in salt. Most pathogens cannot tolerate high levels of salt, and I don't think most halophiles (organisms that require high salt concentration) are pathogenic. I'm not saying that there is *no* chance of consuming noxious microorganisms in sea salt, just that the probably is extremely low.

The heavy metals are another matter. You can't know the salt has lower than acceptable levels of them unless it is tested.

83 posted on 06/25/2013 3:49:08 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: opentalk

Never seen Twinkies outside of the USA...


84 posted on 06/25/2013 3:53:42 AM PDT by Netz (Netz)
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To: markman46

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

Oh yeah, my mom helped out by keeping some gunny sacks she called our special “sniping bags”. Bet there are some people on FR who have never had the honor of going on a snipe hunt.


85 posted on 06/25/2013 5:26:49 AM 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: FreedomPoster
The joke would appear to be on you, if you took us seriously.

I'm just playing along. Maybe I should have used a /sarc tag with the MSDS post.

86 posted on 06/25/2013 5:48:49 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Disambiguator

You were really a cc: on that. I wish that were an explicit thing on FR.


87 posted on 06/25/2013 9:39:17 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Grams A

went on one once and did a couple on the new boy scouts first camping trips.

I am sure more the a few Freepers have not had the fun of a snipe hunt :-)


88 posted on 06/25/2013 9:41:05 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: FreedomPoster
You were really a cc: on that. I wish that were an explicit thing on FR.

You did seem a bit humorless. :^)

89 posted on 06/25/2013 10:20:23 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: exDemMom

I’ll have to remember “woo” — there’s a lot of it going around. As soon as I get an opportunity, I’m going to point to some wax or plastic fruit, and call it organic.


90 posted on 06/25/2013 10:44:56 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
Is there any way to mail order milk in a bag?

Oh, I wish. We can't import certain types of agriculture products and this is a big "fat chance" per Uncle Sugar.

91 posted on 06/25/2013 4:37:58 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Grams A

Did you guys ever get sick?

I understand that raw milk is super healthy.


92 posted on 06/26/2013 12:16:53 PM PDT by diamond6 (Behold this Heart which has so loved men!" Jesus to St. Margaret Mary)
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To: diamond6

Did you guys ever get sick?”

Don’t recall ever being sick but I hated raw milk - for four reasons.

First was because I had to milk one of the cows every morning before I went off to school. Do you know that you can NEVER get rid of the smell of cow on your body?

Second was because it was my job to clean the separator. At the time I could swear that there were at least a thousand parts to one.

Third was because I had to churn the butter - by hand! One of the first songs my mom said I learned was “Come butter, come butter” which I would sing during the entire process.

Finally my dad loved homemade cottage cheese. Took me years to forget just how bad it smelled when it was cooking.

I would certainly love to be back on the farm again. But I would not be milking any cows.


93 posted on 06/26/2013 1:43:02 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: Grams A

LOL!!!

So I take it that you still smell like a cow?

But in all seriousness, I would love to own a dairy cow. Are there any breeds that are small?


94 posted on 06/26/2013 1:54:31 PM PDT by diamond6 (Behold this Heart which has so loved men!" Jesus to St. Margaret Mary)
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To: diamond6

Are there any breeds that are small?

Hopefully I don’t still smell like a cow, although I may have yesterday after working in the yard when the temp was right at 100.

Haven’t a clue as to whether cows come in small, medium or large. When I was small they were all large sized. We had two that were black and white of some kind and an old Guernsey named Molly that gave about 90% cream. Her milk sure made good homemade hand crank vanilla ice cream which we had every Sunday for dinner on top of some kind of homemade pie.


95 posted on 06/26/2013 2:12:32 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: central_va

I love fruit loops, lucky charms too. All American cereals.
Delicious. And that’s all I have to say about that.


96 posted on 07/13/2013 10:26:47 AM PDT by slouper (LWRC M6A2)
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