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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!
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.
I give them a year.
Lead in the foreskin reduces autism.
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.
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.
WEAKENED regulations??? How much weaker could they get???
DO.NOT.CHALLENGE.THEM!
Fat, happy and docile, the way we like them. - US business
Even Scott Steiner checked my math.
Seems like
Oh wtf Matt Damon is the lead on that? I did not remember that and now I feel kinda old for that.
With those numbers, we can also explain why Americans are fat.
Regulations so weak they kNoOoOoW they can’t beat you
YSK that average or even lower quality meat from the EU would almost always be considered ‘premium’ by US standards. What Americans eat on a daily basis is straight up illegal in the EU. Leave it to the richest country on the planet to feed its citizens with literal poisoned trash.
Americans eat as if they had an excellent healthcare system. Or a healthcare system at all.
It’s the opposite: the state has no responsibility to heal anyone, so they don’t give a crap about prevention through regulation.
They eat exactly as the healthcare system they have.
Americans eat like they believe in God’s salvation.
“Freedom” means freedom from safety nets
Do you have a valid source for that claim?
bleached chickens
To expand on this example, people worry about the bleach when they hear this but it’s not used at dangerous levels as I remember it.
The issue is the meat is so disgusting in the first place it needs to be washed to not kill off its consumers. We don’t wash meat in Europe, because we have standards
To go even further, in Japan they have a breed of chicken so clean that it’s eaten as sushi. Here in the US, undercooked chicken or unwashed eggs are a salmonella risk - as is pretty much any other food due to contamination. There was a massive recall on lettuce a few years ago across the country for salmonella contamination.
Which is also why the advice in any actual first world country is not to wash meat, because the small amount of bacteria that may be present which cooking will deal with, just ends up in your sink ready to contaminate everything else
That is the USDA/USFDA advice as well. the “wash” takes place in the slaughterhouse and Europeans just use different chemicals.
Nah, Japan just takes that risk and minimizes it by butchering the chicken much closer to the time it us served. In the USA your bird was killed much earlier and preserved by chilling/freezing.
There’s no magic breed of chicken that has no salmonella.
Cheese wiz in cans, banned in Canada.
How do you think we became the richest country on earth? Capitalism run amok and fucking people over.
Do you think no one cooks or something?
Edit. Apparently cooking is bad if you’re American.
I don’t see show cooking oversugared toxins is gonna make them less toxic.
You live in a perfect world don’t you?
No, I live in an extremely shitty world where a majority of people are selfish idiots who only focus on their own bellies.
But I am Finnish and although (I find the country much more problematic than most would assume — vis-a-vis the population’s self-imposed authoritarianism), our food regulation isn’t too shabby.
vis-a-vis the population’s self-imposed authoritarianism
People voted for conservatives didn’t they?
Thus the “self-imposed”, although it’s not just about the current government.
I do think that about the USA actually, yes.
What magical country are you from?
“the rest of the world” / “Europe” / “Nordics”
Take your pick.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC300778/
Fat land: how Americans became the fattest people in the world Reviewed by: Samuel Klein Greg Critser… Fat land: how Americans became the fattest people in the world. 2004.University of California Press: Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.224 pp. $24.00. ISBN: 0-618-16472-3 (hardcover).Inline graphic
We are in the midst of a national obesity crisis, and Americans are getting heavier. Today, about 65% of adults and 15% of children and adolescents in the US are overweight or obese.
Two thirds of adults are obese. that’s horrifying.
Your moms horrifying
I would agree, but she can still walk herself to where she needs to go. Can yours?
That’s the lamest response I’ve ever heard lol
You can do better. Try again
are you buying the meat from a butcher that only sources from local farmers? If you can afford that, yeah it’s probably on par with what Euros can buy in a grocery store. If you can’t afford that, then it doesn’t really matter if you’re the one cooking it or not, the meat is gonna be low quality.
Yes, grocery stores source food from local farms.
We don’t have animals made of corn sugar. You can dismount from your high horse.
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
You should see what we call Parmesan cheese over here.
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.
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.
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.
Was anything signed? Last I read, it was only some kind of oral promise.
Not that I know of. There have been discussions around putting some of that into legislation though. I’m not sure about how serious that is, since most of all of this is done behind closed doors.
Wrong meme template. This one is for when you see somebody else getting in trouble for a thing you’re doing wrong too.
What you wanted was something more like the Jeremy Clarkson “Oh no! Anyway…” template.
European food safety regulators aren’t the best according to OP, so not entirely wrong
Nothing is perfect but EU food regulations are pretty fantastic.
I work in the food industry in my country. Can confirm. The amount of test we have to pass so a new machine can be added to the production line is borderline paranoic. But as a result, the worst incident that happens is when a product doesn’t freeze in the right position and the customer opens it and it’s ugly. It’s bad for the company, because the product is not good looking but hey, at least there’s no risk of killing someone with it.
AFAIK eggs are done ‘differently’ (with pros and cons compared to the processing in the US, but no clear winner) and there’s more access to certain types of raw milk products, but otherwise it seems to me that Euro regulators are more cautious than US ones. I think in a lot of cases new stuff here is “allow it until it’s proven unsafe,” while there it’s more often “ban it until its proven safe.”
A meme template can be used in different ways than its first user originally intended, doesn’t make it wrong… If it’s funny, it works. The end.
I agree since memes shouldn’t be limited to one way.
It’s not funny and it doesn’t work, because the meme template was used incorrectly.
Are we gatekeeping meme templates, really? Damn.
We always have, I’ve never seen a meme template used incorrectly without lots of comments calling it out for being wrong, even when it was actually funny.
See idgaf about how a template is used as long as it’s funny. If it’s used incorrectly but is funny it’s a ‘spin’ or variant or remix or even a ‘subversion’ if the joke is about the template itself (meta commentary).
The former shows knowledge of the template and intent.
But if it is unfunny and it’s used incorrectly then oftentimes it is so because it’s used incorrectly.
The latter shows a lack of knowledge of the template and lack of intention.
This all also applies to art
And just like art, it’s all subjective. Someone will always find it funny, perhaps even a clever use of the template.
Gatekeeping memes is absurd, always has been. You find it funny, great. You don’t, bummer. Move on.
Just like art.
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!¹ 🫠
Didn’t even need to return to my birth country…
(¹nostalgia of having to worry about food safety again)
👊🇺🇸🔥
Eating food is now a lottery in the US. The EU and UK abhor the idea of needing to wash chickens in bleach. Standards are ready so poor that this isn’t sufficient to keep people safe. [Edited, managed to type “for lunch” instead of “in bleach”. One handed typing on train excuse]
The most American thing to eat right now is a bullet. Fuck my goddamn country.
The worry is that your family will go to the US and eat something awful and become maimed.
Haha! I already avoided going to USA for being the fucking leech sucking all the blood of the world, now I extra super duper avoid it!
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I think a lot of Americans would be surprised, like I was when I moved here, that EU stores will sell chicken products from China, but not the United States.
I seem to be out of the loop. What happened?
The EPA Is Embracing PFAS Pesticides. These Are The Health Risks
https://time.com/7336883/epa-pfas-pesticides-health-risks/
FDA poised to kill proposal that would require asbestos testing for cosmetics
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/28/fda-proposal-asbestos-testing-talc-cosmetics
Trump blames others but Washington air crash comes amid upheaval in US aviation
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/trump-washington-plane-crash-analysis
Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
https://www.propublica.org/article/foreign-food-safety-inspections-historic-low-fda
From the first article:
Worse, there is no firm definition of exactly what a PFAS is—at least in the United States. The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which works with 38 member nations including the U.S. to foster international cooperation and economic growth, defines PFAS as industrial chemicals that have at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom—which is a carbon atom with two or three fluorine atoms attached to it. There are about 15,000 species of chemicals that meet that standard. But the EPA has pushed back, broadening the definition to two fully fluorinated carbon atoms. “The final definition does not include substances that only have a single fluorinated carbon,” the agency wrote in its formal report in 2023—during Joe Biden’s presidency. That change is worrying.
A minimum of 2 fully fluorinated carbon atoms instead of 1 is NOT broadening the definition. That’s narrowing it.
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That’s a good thing you’re doing there. If you’re looking for advice, just contact me. My dad grew up on a farm and passed most of his knowledge to me, so I know hacks that most people don’t.
Ass cancer is the price for freedum!
wait what. how do I not know this being an American?
Media lies
Media hides
toche
something about how food is dangerous in America now. bites into hamburger I dunno, I only have like 100 rare diseases now.
Avoid 🇺🇸 companies like McDonalds and Burger King(Restaurant Brands International)
Yum foods as well (KFC/Taco Bell) which is a subdivision of PepsiCo.
I am consistently shocked how much higher quality the food is in France and The NL when I visit; even the sloppy mall restaurants were higher quality. Paris was off the charts. The worst quality food we had there was above average for here.
And do not be mistaken, the US wants this for Europe too. They want a few rich people to dictate everything world wide.
Eat our chlorine chicken!
Fuck. That. Shit.
Europe is already moving in wrong directions here and there (hello chat control) so we gotta be enormously careful that they won’t bend the knee on anything else
Europeans need to hold these corrupt politicians in the positions of power accountable.
