Anyone else find it insane that food with chemicals known to cause cancer and birth defects is allowed to be sold?

[iamthemilkman]

This is a warning on Walmart's Great Value Chocolate Chip Waffles:

Who would even buy this in the first place? Sadly, some people don't read the back of food packaging.

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

Well, there is a reason why you have to see and read the product apart from caution (Which in some products appears), Well for something you have to see and read the product apart from caution, Also read the list of ingredients of the product but the confusing thing is that you do not know which ingredients may be harmful or carcinogenic for consumption and sometimes confuse with the safe and suitable ingredients for consumption and also the nutritional facts if it is safe to consume the product or not and it can vary according to the appropriate portion. But, well.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

This is a warning on Walmart's Great Value Chocolate Chip Waffles:

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Who would even buy this in the first place? Sadly, some people don't read the back of food packaging.

You cant fool me. Ill eat the packaging around the waffles instead. Ill still get the same nutritional effects

 

[Scotty]

I remember seeing a video of RFK JR. announcing that by 2027 putting carcinogens (The "Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1" things you see on most snacks in case you don't know) into food will be prohibited.

I personally doubt that this will happen (After all, we're the same country that was supposed to abandon the practice of changing clocks twice a year back in 2022). However, it would be nice to see companies prioritize food QUALITY over its shelf life.

 

[Tonberry]

Man, American sweets seem to be the worst thing on planet earth.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Is there anything I'm not guilty of these days?! Jeeez!

It's weird seeing that on food, but it's not like we can't still buy cigarettes, too.

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

Texas passed a law that will soon have things like Dorito be labeled with "Not suitable for human consumption." And if Texas passes it then most other places will follow suit

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

I'm glad at least the label's there and is forced to be thereby government law. Not everyone will be so honest and I have no doubt it was always like this since 1940s just only now they can't hide it.

 

[fake-kun]

Alcohol and cigarettes are also allowed to be sold, so...

 

[DjQuick2008]

I dont think US food and UK food are regulated the same a lot of stuff in US food is even banned from the UK and im not saying our snacks or chocolate are 100% in the healthy bracket either.

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Alcohol and cigarettes are also allowed to be sold, so...

I left my job due to the unethical practice of selling alcohol when i was suffering myself. Got early retirement at 34 i couldnt do it anymore and raise a smile while doing it

 

[Questless Knight]

People are surprised that companies and government values money more than human life?

I mean take my country more and more regular soda has started to replace sugar with arteficlar sweetener. Take Pepsi for example you got Pepsi and Pepsi max. One of them should have normal sugar and one artificial sweeteners but today normal Pepsi today is just Pepsi max with out calling it max they started to use artificial sweeteners + little sugar to save money.

I hate this becuse 2 reason I wanna drink normal pepsi becuse 1. artificial sweeteners is worse for your health than sugar is. 2. artificial sweeteners makes everything takes SHIT.

But yeah more and more regular soda is becoming just like their Zero counter part just so companies can save money and not have any sugar.

Companies don´t give a fuck you get cancer and die as long as you keep giving them money when yoru alive.



"Also every human on the planet already have cancer in them it´s just active. So technically shit does not cause cancer it´s more that it can activate it."

 

[Netra]

USA have signed presidential decrees allowing pharmaceutical companies to do whatever they want without having to pay for the side effects their drugs cause in the population, two times in less than 80 years.

This is something trivial in comparison.

 

[iamthemilkman]

I remember seeing a video of RFK JR. announcing that by 2027 putting carcinogens (The "Red 40, Yellow 5, Blue 1" things you see on most snacks in case you don't know) into food will be prohibited.

I personally doubt that this will happen (After all, we're the same country that was supposed to abandon the practice of changing clocks twice a year back in 2022). However, it would be nice to see companies prioritize food QUALITY over its shelf life.

Hopefully he does. While food dyes are a good start, he needs to go further. We're unhealthy as we are for a reason. It's not some mystery, it's what we're consuming on a daily basis.

 

[DjQuick2008]

USA have signed presidential decrees allowing pharmaceutical companies to do whatever they want without having to pay for the side effects their drugs cause in the population, two times in less than 80 years.

This is something trivial in comparison.

Pfizer dont have to release their 2020 files for 75 years not dodgy at all

 

[Netra]

Pfizer dont have to release their 2020 files for 75 years not dodgy at all

Pfizer is* just one of these companies with the power to play as God in America and other countries.

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

Oh! the fabulous art of selling shit in a pretty package...
As someone already said companies and governments go in perfect tandem(the so called lobby)...
For them, You're not people, you are a money bag and guinea pig.

 

[Potapota]

Grocery shopping sure becomes a pain when you start to actually read product labels and consider things like does this loaf of bread really need 30 different ingredients.

 

[marky]

Yes, but that's the USA. You allow corporations to rule you and poison you.
In the EU, many substances used in food in the USA are banned, and food products containing them cannot be sold.

Although sometimes nonsense based on reports from the US is repeated in Europe. For example, I remember that even in schools they showed the documentary ‘Supersize Me’ about the harmfulness of McDonald's products.

The problem is that this document refers to American McDonald's, where the ingredients used in Europe are completely different. You can even taste the difference. Everyone I spoke to who had been in the US said that American McDonald's tastes different and much worse than ours.
For example, shakes and cola are much sweeter.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

You cant fool me. Ill eat the packaging around the waffles instead. Ill still get the same nutritional effects

Mmmhhh... Tasty cartonage and plastic soup .
Vegan and healthy at the same time .

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Mmmhhh... Tasty cartonage and plastic soup .
Vegan and healthy at the same time .

Pass me another Roach brick

 

[CheesyExplosive]

This is a warning on Walmart's Great Value Chocolate Chip Waffles:

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Who would even buy this in the first place? Sadly, some people don't read the back of food packaging.

You should realize that every food that exist lacks cleanness or sanitary requirements/conditions in the past 35 years.

 

[Potapota]

I don't want to defend the modern food industry too much, I still stand behind my earlier ingredients list post, but a quick glance at wikipedia suggests that both of these substances occur naturally by just roasting some veggies on a pan. I'm sure there are plenty of legitimate cases when it would make sense to slap one of these on there, but as far as I've understood, California is so strict about these cancer warning labels that they are more or less useless.

 

[Nidoking's icon Nidoking Nidoking]

It's all a matter of compromise. As long as the argument exists of "adults can make their own mistakes", a very minor amount of hazardous chemicals and substances is reasonable from a legal perspective. If you ban this, you have to ban cigarettes... and alcohol. There are studies that have linked BREATHING to cancer.

However, I do think the harmful substances are too abundant, too overused, and not enough people are made aware of which ones are particularly harmful. A small warning label is enough for legal purposes, but realistically nobody can read every bit of text on every container of food they buy, especially with all the other legal text out there.

But realistically? They have to put that label on anything with even the smallest trace of a substance that has ever been linked to harmful side effects, or they could get sued. It's usually not actually harmful in any meaningful way, it's less about OUR protection and a lot more about protecting the people who make these products.