Posted on 11/23/2024 5:27:17 PM PST by DoodleBob
This New York Times “gotcha” is about as sharp as a soggy bowl of breakfast cereal.
The Times was relentlessly mocked over the weekend for appearing to unintentionally make Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s case in a recent article that tried to poke holes in his anti-processed-food crusade.
Kennedy, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has long pushed for purging artificial ingredients from the food supply, routinely calling such additives “poison.”
The Times on Friday ran a story positing that the Kennedy scion’s stance while potentially leading the agency could put him on a collision course with Big Food, which the outlet warned could jeopardize Republicans’ longstanding friendly relationship with the multibillion-dollar industry.
“Mr. Kennedy has singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many artificial ingredients, questioning why the Canadian version has fewer than the U.S. version,” Gray Lady scribes wrote of the colorful Kellogg’s cereal often criticized by RFK Jr.
“But he was wrong,” the article continued authoritatively — before delivering what was meant to be the death blow certain to tear Kennedy’s incorrect beliefs to smithereens.
“The ingredient list is roughly the same, although Canada’s has natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots while the U.S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used ‘for freshness,’ according to the ingredient label,” the report said. (emphasis added)
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An X writer, referring to Trump’s decisive election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, said, “This. This is exactly why they lost. Everything about this particular part of this specific article is why we won and they lost.”
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Yes, roughly very "rough."
This is very uncharacteristic of the MSM.
They work extra hard to gaslight normal people, most of the time.
It is like they’re not even trying anymore.
I’m worried about them.
Not.
Wonder what an AI article comparing the 2 countries fruit loops would say...
I read that the main statement Mr. Kennedy made on MSNBC was “Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients and you go to Canada and it has two or three?”
It appears RFK jr. is to be faulted here. Careless statements that are not true impugn an argument that may have an overall valid point.
USA Fruit Loops vs Canadian Fruit Loops = Biden vs. Trudeau.
Yeah both versions are bad for you but not identical.
The first ingredient in the Canadian version is sugar - I believe that means sugar outweighs everything else in the Canadian version. Not that I’m complaining - going to try to find some Canadian Froot Loops now.
“But, Mom! Fruit Loops doesn’t taste the same since they took the toxic chemicals out of it!”
Whole Grain Yellow Corn Meal*, Cane Sugar*, Yellow Corn Meal*, Whole Grain Purple Corn Flour*, Tapioca Syrup*, Sunflower Oil*, Sea Salt, Calcium Carbonate, Annatto*, Natural Flavor*. Vitamin E (mixed tocopherols) Added to Preserve Freshness. *Organic
Give me eggs fried in butter with some bacon and I'll be far healthier.
Where can you find that? Looks like something Aldi might have.
“Give me eggs fried in butter with some bacon and I’ll be far healthier.”
My daily breakfast, but scrambled in butter.
In Canada - SUGAR is the top ingredient.
Whole grain corn flower is the SECOND ingredient.
In US - Sugar is the THIRD ingredient. after whole grain yellow corn flower and degerminated yellow corn flower.
Very true.
The organic version I posted is basically starch and sugar.
At a diner in North Jersey, they will serve eggs and sausage with a side of cole slaw. It sounds gross, but it rocks.
If you want to see something scary, look at your dump color after eating Froot Loops. I don’t know if the Canadian version does the same thing but that was enough for me. Who knows what those chemicals are doing to your intestines on their way through?
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