Reddit Exposed a Dangerous Food Loophole 3 Years Ago. It's Still There
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- A loophole in FDA regulations in making us sick. The FDA allows companies to independently determine whether certain ingredients are safe. That’s reviewed by a panel… which has 100% conflict of interest in the outcome. One approved ingredient sent 39 people to the ER.
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“Stop making it easy for corporations to poison us” is a basic mandate and yet they struggle.
and present it as a "personal choice", it's the "land of freedom" blah blah
They can't curb their greedy corruption. It's like they are addicted to it.
because corporations buy off our legislators
Money makes the world go round. Oh and power. Enough that people dying is a risk they'll take until they're exposed as doing so and HAVE to change by mandate.
@@AprileB-t1t You could move to Europe.
the idea that a company can simply say "nuh-uh" to the FDA looking into an ingredient and then SELL IT ANYWAY!?! this is the most insane part of this whole story I think.
We can refuse to buy it. That's why.
Wait until you read about the FDA and pharmaceutical drugs… I wouldn’t take ANYTHING brought to market after the late 90s.
@@MrPhotodocHow would anyone know to refuse to buy it? If you'd read Tara Flour on an ingredients list, would you have known to avoid it? Dangerous ingredients shouldn't be allowed in the first place.
FDA has no teeth, moves like a dinosaur, and is not on the consumers side. Mega bribe taking in that mega industry. So many chemicals in our industrial food! Millennials getting intestinal cancers, and those were not being found until stage 3-4, because symptoms were ignored due to the younger age group. If you have a uterus, you get extra medical gaslighting; because they attribute everything in the abdomen to a menstrual issue. So it can't hurt that bad, right? 😡...🤬!
If it’s being put on the market, some people are probably going to _eat_ it
When other countries won't accept our food, something has to be done.
To force those countries to accept our food
Just stop eating the crap. Simple.
@Astaghfirullah-10 , I assume that's sarcasm, but under Trump would be considered a brilliant idea, in Trump would say it's the best idea ever.
Eitherway, it wouldn't work anyway, most people in the EU/Europe just wouldn't buy US food because we know just how unhealthy/dangerous so many food products from the US are. That's not to say the EU/Eurpope doesn't have unhealthy food, it does, but for the most part it is not dangerous/life threatening (I will note that long term exposure of some foods can lead to some potential health risks).
@@Astaghfirullah-10 that's certainly what Trump is trying to do through the threat of tariffs but you can't force people to eat something they don't want.
Yeah, I'm super disappointed with the ending of this video. The FDA doesn't need to do a ton of research. All we have to do is ask Canada, New Zealand and the EU. They've already done the studies. There's no point in repeating them.
My daughter had stomach problems. Through military lived in Italy for 3years. Stomach problems gone.. No country wants our food. Unless your starving.
As someone who chooses starving over poor food choices on some days...some people won't even do that lol
@@mrtiredeyesthe consequences of starving are equally undesirable but I gave up living in a building in order to afford my food intolerances. Humans have stupid values of importance
@@mrtiredeyes starving isn't the same as being hungry for a day
Reverse my diabetes by switching to making my own food with basic ingredients. It cleaned up my complexion as well. So, if it comes in a box I don't buy it. It's my own personal boycott
Facts 😂
I'm an American who visited Europe a few years back. I was worried about traveling due to all my digestive issues - and I eat very little processed food. I spent a few weeks in Europe. The entire time I had zero digestive issues. I got noticeably healthier. And then I returned home. And all my issues returned.
Eating organic stuff and fresh stuff is your best net in the USA, even then you can't be completely sure.
I had the same worries and experience visiting Cambodia…. The U.S. food supply is a trash fire.
@@pvmanisggoorgh3377 Agreed. And I do. I avoid processed food, I cannot drink the milk here (but European milk doesn't bother me a bit), and I make as much as I can from scratch. When I have the energy, I even grow some things. It's sad that our food chain is so bad.
I honestly wish I could find the will to fast more often. I'm not the primary shopper in my household, so I eat what I get. I can't exaggerate enough just how sick random food makes me.
I'm 100% sober now, but the only relief I could ever find was from eating absolutely nothing all day. Since I never know what it is that makes me sick.
This is how I felt in London while visiting for a month
Lobbying needs to be made illegal.
The general public trusting the “science” needs to be made illegal.
Immediately.
Yeah, it's shafting us all nowadays. Sometimes even the rich lol.
@@Rock_Appreciator Yeah, but unlike the rest of us the rich DESERVE to be shafted💯
I dunno, I live in a country where lobbying is illegal, there are no lobbying firms. But the rich guys get their way regardless. The lobbying firms are replaced by thinktanks and their 'model legislation' seems to turn into actual laws every time they want it. I'm not sure if the American system is worse, at least it's visible and regulated. But they should definitely reduce the number of people allowed to be lobbyists, it's ridiculous seeing hundreds of them swarming all over the capitol every day.
America is the worlds best example that expecting profit-driven companies (the market) to self police and regulate is a one way street to bad things happening
Monopolies need big government not free markets. People who fear free markets fear the consequences of their own choices. Fear is exploited by big government and big business.
@@jackstiles458 Would anti-trust action not be considered "big government"? Monopolies are the ultimate outcome under an unregulated, "free market" Capitalist economy
Both of your assertions can be true simultaneously. The fallacy is that we need big government and big business in order to combat one against the other. When in reality, crippling both, preventing both from having massive overreach, is essential for liberty and basic human dignity.
unfortunately so many americans buy into the idea that private businesses are better, when the issue is that all of our government institutions are underfunded
@@jackstiles458 free market would be ok if monopolies were broken up. It’s the combination of the two that lets them do whatever they want and screw consumers.
Trump has been complaining that the EU won't import American food. Well, this is why.
Yeah, I'm waiting for Chump to threaten tariffs against EU countries for not allowing enough American ultra-processed crap into their food supply.
Trump also said in that same sentence that RFK has said that some ingredients shouldn't be there and maybe we should look at that. I don't know if he'll do it and actually get RFK into the cabinet position, but he did mention that we have troublesome ingredients in our foods. I know I listened to that same thing and I was looking for him to say that or if he didn't say it. I think Trump is mostly all talk sadly.
Canada has the à lot of the same foods and yet quite different ingredients because they are not allowed to use many of the dyes. Also the sugar levels are much lower.
@@nickmagrick7702You “think”
What does he have to do in order for you to see ?
Felonies, fake university scams, bankrupt companies, Epsteins best bud..
You are either blind or uninformed.
@@nickmagrick7702the problem will be if he targets ingredients like those mentioned ine video, or if he'll go after regulations because the worm told him bear meat needs to be on every grocery store shrlf.
don't buy things that are banned by the UK or EU
That would be the way to go if not for the small detail that over 90% of US food would be illegal to sell inside the EU.
It's inconvenient that 90% of your 'food' is unsafe but it's probably inconvenient to have organs removed too. Just saying
@@Lee-qj4hk I have mixed feelings as to whether you're responding to mine or the original comment.
@@shapelessed they are replying to your comment
@ Well, it's hard to judge since it's a pile of bull$h!t. Especially considering that guy's other comments.
- Three things that changed my life:
1. started watching health videos
2. I read the book called: Health Secrets Industry Hides
3. I stopped eating proccesed foods
Thanks for sharing that man
love this comment
will check that book out
@lukag3155 no worries glad I can help
Totally agree with you
I so appreciate Europe caring about its people - both in food and in cosmetics. I feel so angry at our country.
Are you great yet, america?
They care bc otherwise the damage to health done by bad or dangerous food will impact their socialized medicine costs. Cheaper to keep people healthy by disallowing bad foods. Still, shame on food companies who enjoy the privileges and security of being located in the USA but have no problem their fellow Americans eating foods they can’t produce for other countries.
Europe cares about its people? then why have they imported millions of immigrants that are destroying their cultures and harassing women?
RFK is going to change that I hope, make our fda more liekt he Europen counter parts.
RFK to save the day!
The biggest thing I miss about European Union are their food standards.
Whenever I have gone to the eu, all my digestive issues go away within a day. This makes me want to relocate over there. I just need some digestive peace
@@camiller4916 It's an incredible feeling, I'm Canadian and I have to watch out for anything I eat when at home, while abroad, I often forget and feel free to eat things without being scared of the repercussions
And fewer cases of mass shootings.
I agree that the system described here is clearly biased towards corporations and rigged against the consumer, and it should be fixed.
I would like you to think about this though: When companies wanted to introduce stevia to the European market, they had to conduct safety tests on live animals to satisfy the European legislator. Thousands of animals died in toxicity studies.
Meanwhile, Southeast Asian studies that already existed about stevia's safety, as the ingredient has been used there for centuries, were not accepted as proof (maybe on the basis of some colonialist superiority complex?).
This led to a delay of the replacement of sugar in foods by a more harmless substance, literally harming consumers for over a decade.
I conclude: Unprofessional overreach of food safety enforcement is also not pretty, my friends...
@@IceQueenaliasIQWhen it comes to the livelihood of one’s people, I can appreciate that the EU wanted to verify its long-term health effects with their own eyes. For example, in the US a significant amount of studies done for heath outlook are funded by the corporations which profit from it, or a legal committee whose elections were funded by said corporations.
This "you're the test subject" approach doesn't even stop at food, tbh.
Not the USDA, FDA, or EPA ever apply the precautionary principle except for medications. Everything else in America is involuntary Russian roulette by shifting the burden of responsibility onto an uneducated populace to prove scientifically that a specific product caused them specific harm. _"Shame on you and too bad, consumer, for not knowing tara flour included and was toxic to you. Tough luck."_
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Social media as well.
The entire psychiatric field. They have no idea what they're doing, they are literally experimenting wild s... On people.
As an Italian, I’ve never seen so many processed foods as in an American supermarket. I remember the first time entering in Costco and thinking “Who does eat this crap?” checking the labels.
My personal number one rule since I started living abroad is to not buy anything that I don’t understand what it is or what has inside. It’s quiet annoying because you have to cook yourself most of the times, but you can solve it by making a lot at once and store it in the fridge or in the freezer.
Oil on top of peanut butter is a sign that it doesn't have emulsifier added and so is better.
Too bad its forever not as good after that oil pops up
@@DarkFlamesDarknessugh you’re missing the forest for the trees
Food isn’t meant to last as long as it does with these preservatives.
There are different emulsifiers, some good some bad.
@@jannikheidemann3805yeah, for example gum arabic is natural, is used for millenia and acts as prebiotic for our gut microbiome
@@DarkFlamesDarkness Do you even eat it? I store the stuff for months and it taste fine after mixing.
this country is sooooo profit driven. the sole reason for anything here is money. and i hate it.
there's always a big incentive, either it's money, or power, or grains, or worship
It's just that the government, the institutions are supposed to direct that drive for money and regulate it, so that it has positive outcomes, and not end up in tyranny, deceit, exploitation.
Spot on. We are a corporation not a country.
@donaldspaulding6973 And U.S. citizens (who aren't in the big club) are nothing but product. Livestock consumers are product. Drug companies getting profits from doctors pushing their latest and greatest designer crud, etc.
Sadly in europe it's the same 😢
@321Jarn not quite. but the corporatism is rapidly expanding here too
"The system is rigged towards ignorance." Period.
First and foremost, the education system, otherwise the People would not be so easily fooled. Everything else follows after that.
Hopefully he was saying “unsightly oil on top of peanut butter” ironically. Consumer perceptions are part of the problem. Oil on top of peanut butter is natural and normal.
Exactly. Pretty but tasteless vegetables are also another consequence of consumer ignorance.
Even still, I'd like to know what safe and healthy (emulsifier?) could be used to reduce the need to stir.
Natural peanut butter, the kind made only of peanuts with just a pinch of salt, is the best. I put natural peanut butter in the refrigerator. That helps to slow the oil separation.
The education system is also corrupt
I put my nut butter jar upside down in a cup.
Learn to stir.
It seems most laws and regulations in the US has some kind of legal loopholes favouring corporate world.
Lobbying does that
That's a feature, not a bug.
- Three things that changed my life:
1. stopped trusting FDA
2. I read the book called: Health Secrets Industry Hides
3. I stopped eating excess sugar
Working around FDA rules is the source of a lot of these problems.
Not trusting the FDA?
Bro
FDA has claimed what is toxic
And American foods use it
Yes, eat REAL FOOD, OFTEN!
Oh, so you're still eating that Walmart listeria broccoli? :>
@@Callimobad faith argument. You can get listeria from many foods (although not probable) regardless of those 3 things he listed or not. Now what does what you say have to do with the 3 points he made? Nothing.
I hope people continue to wake up from corporate lies
We all gotta eat. That's why they get away with so much.
.....and then what?
Their pockets are deeper, and they live in a better neighborhood. 😅
No one cares.
$$$$ talks
@@MrPhotodoc, true, you do, but you can buy thr healthier food and leave the ob iously unhealthy/dangerous foods full of dodgy chemicals and ingredients. I know you can't just scan the i gradients of every product while shopping, but you can certainly look out for certain ingredients with research showing the risks/dangers of certain ingredients and avoid foods containing them. If everyone or least a significant percentage of the population did this, it would force manufacturers of food to change
The American people won't ever wake up. They have made it abundantly clear that they prefer to live in a comfortable lie rather than deal with reality.
Too late!
I'm reading "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair right now. It feels shockingly relevant right now with the garbage food additives and starvation wages.
That book was highly influential when it was published to improve slaughterhouse conditions. This type of writing/journalism was called "muckraking" because they were raking up the muck of capitalism.
@victoriabaker4400 Yup, I realized that I'd never actually read it despite wanting to since high school. I'll be making sure my kids read it once they're mature enough for it to fully hit home.
Everyone should read that book.
_"It's impossible to get someone to understand something when their salary, lifestyle, or greed depends on their not understanding it."_ - updated for the 21st century
@@victoriabaker4400 The book did become highly influential, but initially it was due to wealthy and middle class Americans being horrified by what was included in the slaughtered meat they consumed. The end result was to regulate the meat packing plants.
Upton Sinclair wrote the book to highlight the poor labor conditions, but that wasn’t what caused the book to go viral initially.
The FDA is a _political_ organization, not a _scientific_ one. Once you understand that distinction, everything they do makes total sense. Also, the GRAS rule was established in 1997, not 1950. The GRAS rule was created by Michael Taylor, a revolving door _lawyer_ for Monsanto, to the extreme benefit of Monsanto. Michael Taylor is the sole person responsible for multiple crimes against humanity.
This is not correct. I had to learn a lot of laws in environmental health class for my master's in public health. This link tracks with what I learned: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Additives_Amendment_of_1958.
I'm not saying that Monsanto and their lawyers didn't add to problems in the environment or our food supply, but I haven't studied it.
GRAS was implemented in 1958, you are thinking of the “GRAS notification” which is a procedure that was implemented in April 1997.
That was just so a company could inform the fda of GRAS additives being used in products and then the fda would determine if true or not.
www.fda.gov/food/generally-recognized-safe-gras/fdas-approach-gras-provision-history-processes#:~:text=cocoa%20butter%20substitute-,%22GRAS%20Notification%22,%3B%20April%2017%2C%201997).
It seems like you can do anything in this country as long as you have money.
Shocking, isn't it?
What you really need, to get away with anything, is power - the ability to make people do what you want. Money is only a measurement of power, and not the only source or store of power. If you have enough power, you CAN get away with anything, whether your power is in the form of money or not.
This is not limited to the US. It's everywhere. What really makes a difference to whether power is abused, or how egregious the abuse, is culture. Many of our cultural problems stem from people not willing to resist - not willing to use their own power, however limited, to NOT do what the powerful person says.
And this is why, although I have similar feelings to people who push for socialism, and I understand their frustration, I don't support it. Without cultural change, we're just changing the currency of power, and who wields it. If we change the system but not the culture, socialism doesn't give power to the people - only to a different set of elite people. Get people to exercise their individual power, get them in the habit of exercising it, and which economic system in which we operate becomes rather insignificant.
Bingo!
not only that but you can even get a bunch of the poors to cheer you on
American dream baby
Europe has done alot of the work for us, we need to follow their lead.
Yeah, we don't even have to go through the arduous process of testing everything, we can just follow Europe's conclusion, it'd be a matter of forcing these corporations to follow
@@Lambda_Ovine But then how are our rich people gonna get richer?
@@wematanye533the way many of them already do? Pay employees a non-livable wage and get the cheapest allowed ingredients possible or get government contracts (especially in the military sector)?
Cover what foods are banned in Europe, and why they're allowed in the US.
Exactly!!
I mean, I think he just did. The rest of the explanation? More weaknesses in FDA regulation and corporate lobbying.
Fun fact kinder joy eggs are banned in USA
it's less so "foods", and more so certain ingredients, and it's because it's profitable and psychopaths don't care about the wellbeing of others
@@finezyjnafantazja2495 poor kids might enjoy themselves smh
Fun Fact: All those studies staying high fat food was dangerous were also funded and lobbied for by the sugar industry. So that people focused on fat/saturated fat being the diet "villain", instead of sugar. While trans fats are indeed dangerous, regular non-trans, saturated fats, and cholesterol are not actually the dietary villain we think they are. They actually serve more as necessary macro nutrients. But things like trans fats and sugar have been hidden by GRAS to great degree. Sugar is a huge industry (unlike trans fats), and has major lobbying strength. Sugar and sodium used excessively is how big corporations are keeping people sick. Travel to non north american countries for a month or longer stay, and feel it for yourself. The difference in your body and how you feel will make you disgusted by the food that is made available here.
Thank you for spreading the truth
Yes, "added sugar" is considered a massive industry, with a significant economic impact due to the widespread use of sugar in processed foods and beverages, making it a key component of many food manufacturers' revenue streams; this is often accompanied by concerns regarding the health implications of high sugar intake.
Key points about the "added sugar" industry:
Prevalence:
Sugar is added to a vast array of food products, including soft drinks, baked goods, cereals, yogurt, sauces, and even some savory items, making it ubiquitous in the food supply.
Marketing Power:
Food companies heavily market sugar-laden products, often targeting children with appealing advertising campaigns.
Health Concerns:
Excessive sugar consumption is linked to various health issues like obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, raising concerns about the industry's impact on public health.
Industry Influence:
The sugar industry has historically been criticiz
The “bliss point” theory about added salt is a myth. It’s added to hide a metallic taste that is inherent to industrial manufacturing.
Always happens when I travel outside the US. I feel much better even tho’ I eat everything like it’s my last meal. Never gain weight, always feel good
RDV for sodium is arguably too low. People who are at risk of hypertension and people who are sedentary should have reduced sodium but people who are active it’s not a problem. Sodium RDV has been revised down numerous times. Salt is implicated in satiety, so if you have less salt in your food it’s easier to overeat
My friend moved into an upscale assisted living facility a few weeks ago. She has had bad digestive problems ever since. The food is delicious, beautifully presented, ultra processed junk. She is trapped in a very expensive luxury jail.
My MIL’s nursing home is not much better. There’s not even presentation of food. All American junk food, burgers, mushy looking meats, frozen or canned veg reheated, always there’s a low quality dinner roll and brownies. She never wanted to eat anything but her weight remains constant. If that’s not an evil empire to keep you alive in misery, I don’t know what!
Just stop eating the crap. Simple.
sounds like school food in the usa
Time to move?
@@glen.simpsonThey said “delicious and beautifully presented.” Neither of which describe school lunches.
Keep reporting this, people need to know that these are corporate-caused problems that neither political party is interested in fixing.
RFK is actually working with Trump in an effort to make the FDA more aggressive against companies trying to do things like add dangerous ingredients so I wouldn’t say that…
Its honestly ludicrous that food can be sold regardless of the FDA's approval.
Money, money, money
This “investigate only after people get sick” strategy is the most detrimental in the supplement industry, through legislation like DSHEA.
1. Supplements should be regulated as medicines.
2. Foods need stronger regulations, consistently. No more of this USDA-FDA split brain horses++t.
3. The precautionary principle needs to the prime directive of safety through regulatory compliance applied uniformly across medications, supplements, and foods.
It fits their motto of it’s better to be sorry than safe
All boxed cereal was making me sick to my stomach. Stopped eating all cereals, instantly felt better
Define a supplement.
@Redditor6079 I’m pasting this from the FDA website, because I think it’s important to look at the language used in how it’s defined:
“A dietary supplement is a product intended for ingestion that, among other requirements, contains a "dietary ingredient" intended to supplement the diet. The term "dietary ingredient" includes vitamins and minerals; herbs and other botanicals; amino acids; "dietary substances" that are part of the food supply, such as enzymes and live microbials (commonly referred to as "probiotics"); and concentrates, metabolites, constituents, extracts, or combinations of any dietary ingredient from the preceding categories.
There are two types of ingredients that may be used in dietary supplements: “dietary ingredients,” discussed above, and “other ingredients.” These “other ingredients” include substances such as fillers, binders, excipients, preservatives, sweeteners, and flavorings.
Dietary supplements are products that are ingested - specifically, they must be swallowed - so, for example, topical or inhaled products are not supplements. Dietary supplements may be found in many forms, such as pills, tablets, capsules, gummies, softgels, liquids, and powders. They can also be in the same form as a conventional food category, such as teas or bars, but only if the product is not represented as a conventional food or as a "sole item of a meal or the diet." To be a dietary supplement, a product must also be labeled as a dietary supplement; that is, the product label must include the term "dietary supplement" or equivalent (e.g., "iron supplement" or "herbal supplement").”
They are crying right now at the thought of being held accountable about many things.
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Are you kidding? They are getting rid of anyone accountable. The least accountable person in world history is at the top.
Nothing will change until corporations can’t lobby and bribe our politicians with campaign money. That definitely won’t change in the profit first corporate American that we live in.
The trump regime will never hold them accountable
Is this a joke?
Surely if they were that bothered just copying Europes homework would speed the process up
Superficial duplication isn't scalable, safe, or effective. What's required is strong regulation based on the precautionary principle. If it ain't proven to be safe, it ain't.
You try to convince America to use someone else' system.
They still use the Imperial Measurements....
That's the method they use in Europe.
No money in that.
That is essentially their model, is it not?
this is exactly why i stopped eating anything that i didn't make myself, and from scratch, and usually from my own back yard garden.
Yup..real food.
I don't know how to make steak
@ you'd better learn...
You're not much better off lmao. Most of those vegetables you're growing have had their nutritional values reduced to almost nothing
@@5400bowen you can make a Cow?
I bet you actually make out with Cows.
Don't you?
Self-regulation NEVER works.
Even with the best intentions and experts. Why? Cos the one "making" something is not the one also "consuming" (also distributing, selling, etc) something. There are different expectations and needs and intentions on either side- and these 2+ sides HAVE to align and interface with each other to keep expectations matched.
This right here is why it's a partisan issue. The red wants deregulation, the blue wants regulation. Lobbyists make it an issue on both sides, but lobbying doesn't take away the core message of the parties.
There’s nothing safe anymore. It is insane.
home grown / locally grown to know if it's safe
@@alexmarvin3093 Even then, there's microplastics inside everything and depending on where you buy seeds/livestock from, they could already be genetically modified. Truly nothing is safe.
Hasnt been for a long time.
we grow our own fruits, veggies, and herbs and attend local farmers markets for meat, fish, and other fruits and veggies we dont grow. its safe. learn how to do that yourself or accept the consequences of consuming a billionaire corporation's food.
@@alexmarvin3093true but we need to still keep corporations in check
Red vs. Blue doesn't matter. It's all about GREEN
It’s too bad most people are infatuated with red or blue and faces of politicians instead of change.
It’s all about the green like you said.
100% truth 👍
Soylant green
RFK Jr gives me hope.
@@deanog2577 RFK jr wants to make polio great again!!
Chicken stock that doesn’t have any chickens in it. I found this out years ago. I actually talked to one of these manufacturers. They substituted honey for chicken and he thought I was inside their industry. He said nobody knows the difference. I did, honey doesn’t taste like chicken at all. The so-called celebrity food chefs, their products are not what you think they are. The big brands use the ingredients. But, what else is in them?
I eat a certain brand of BBQ chips because they're entirely vegan and kosher.
Also, wassabi isn't made from wassabi unless it's the expensive and real kind.
Olive oil is rarely just olive oil.
Maple syrup is rarely maple syrup.
The list goes on and on.
Of those, wasabi is probably the least concerning to me. American wasabi is just a different variety of horseradish, which is not particularly more or less healthy. The only concern I have is the die to make it green, and what other additives (if any) are included for texture. Those vary.
Chickens are not food, nor is fake chicken stock. Wash and eat ur fruits and veggies. 🥕🥦
Substituted Honey? As if you had real honey in America. Buy german honey from the German Apiarists Association under the brand "ECHTER DEUTSCHER HONIG" of the Deutscher Imkerbund e.V., since 1925 they have set standards for honey and fought honey fraud for 100 years.
The honey must have been produced exclusively in the Federal Republic of Germany. This can be verified by pollen analysis.
Genuine German honey is a natural product. This is generally the case if the following requirements are met:
The invertase activity must be at least 64 units (U per kg of honey) SIEGENTHALER. Invertase is a very heat-sensitive enzyme. A high invertase activity is a guarantee that the honey has not been heat-treated.
The hydroxymethylfurfural content (HMF content) must not exceed 15 mg per kg of honey. HMF is a sugar degradation product that is formed in particular during overheating and improper storage. A low HMF content is therefore a criterion for carefully extracted and properly stored honey.
All of the honey's own components are contained, i.e. nothing has been added to the honey and nothing has been removed. Above all, the valuable pollen has not been filtered out and remains intact.
The honey must have a water content of less than 18%. Low-water honeys are riper, less prone to fermentation and have a fuller aroma.
Compliance with the quality guidelines for genuine German honey is monitored in several ways. Market controls, market traffic controls and voluntary preliminary tests are carried out. The origin of each individual jar can be traced using the control number on the guarantee seal.
The honey jars are fully reusable and can be returned to german apiarists.
Children under 1: 😮👀👀
I can’t believe what goes on in the USA it’s beyond belief
Only going to get worse now
It's getting worse in Europe too, even in the Nordic countries, but in the USA it's just insane.
I was in Switerland for 2 months for work last year and my family was the for a month too.
One of the biggest takeaways from living there was the food....it was just so much better and we felt it.
Not a problem in the EU. Thier approved ingredients list is much narrower than FDA
Different philosophy with all due respect. The EU takes the approach of its better to be safe than sorry. Whereas the U.S. takes the approach of its better to be sorry than safe. Which one is right? I’ll let you decide!
@@j2simpso There's more seed oils in EU, and worse, almost never organic alternatives!
@@stigsrnning6459 both of these things are just blatantly wrong. Clearly you have never been to Europe. There are countless organic options for almost everything, even in discounters. And sure some food items will include seed oils, so will some food items in the US. I don't know where you're getting from that there's more of it in the EU, would love to see a source :)
@@comedyfriendsenglish I live in Norway, not EU. Here we can't even by organic bread! And 95 % breads have seed oils (rapeseed oil) as far as I'm aware. Fish products here have always seed oils.
Another example of "the free market" failing. Turns out, when you commodify everything, including laws and food safety, some ghoulish psychopath will always find a way to turn human suffering into massive profit.
But "Caveat emptor" should apply to food more than anything else. If people were more concerned about consuming healthful, whole foods rather than convenience & having their ingredients curated & shipped to them by some 3rd-party company, they'd be doing their own shopping & reading labels themselves. If you don't know what an ingredient is, can't pronounce it & you're certain nobody's grandma would ever have heard of it, then you shouldn't be eating it.
your comment reflects the reason why this country gets everything it deserves.
@@freedomfighter4990 "Caveat emptor" is just fancy cover for predatory capitalism, blaming the consumer, and shifting costs onto the commons. Complex societies specialize: We pay the FDA to make sure our food is not poison (they are doing a bad job). "Eat what you know" is good diet advice, but niave at a national policy level.
What you are complaining about are corpertism, not the free market.
There is nothing free about our market.
At this point Ive come to the conclusion if its sold at Walmart, I probably shouldnt be eating it.
Why is that?
The number 1 sold item at walmart is banannas
What are your thoughts about beans?
@@PraisethesunsonToxic bananas
@@R1gBoN3Gaming Then you haven't been paying attention to how ultraprocessed foods, corruption, and the corporate oligarchy have so coopted the industralized food supply chain that it cannot be trusted.
Comments for engagement, more people need to see this!
As a German visiting the USA, one of the most frustrating things I encounter is the unhealthy food and questionable ingredients. It's something I believe really needs to change.
I think it's incredibly important to bring food safety standards in the USA closer to those in the EU.
In the EU, there is a much more cautious approach to food additives. All ingredients and additives must be specifically authorised before use, and the EU operates under the 'precautionary principle' - substances are considered harmful unless proven safe.
In contrast, in the USA, the FDA assumes food additives are safe until proven harmful. This approach means some additives that are banned in the EU, such as certain food colourings and preservatives, are still allowed in the US
I seriously wish more people subscribed to this channel. Y'all do the deep dives of how unregulated capitalism screws us over repeatedly.
The F in FDA is silent.
some people who worked there mistakenly called it the federal drug administration
Honestly, it's pretty ridiculous to group food and drugs together like that. It's two incredibly different systems - just because someone knows medicine, does not mean they know about food safety.
And then you look at how enormously underfunded they are.
Their motto is it’s better to be sorry than safe
@@j2simpso better to apologize than not to benefit financially in the first place
@@foolishlyfoolhardy6004
they’re brought and paid for by the artificial food and medicine industry neither helps humans. True they should not be handled in the same agency, but this agency is not for consumers protection, that’s just a smoke screen to keep approving the worst practices in the world and make it appear to consumers like there’s an agency looking out for them in their game of monopoly.
It’s gotta be Game Over for FDA
For real trust and transparency to even begin.
To my understanding it’s like this with chemicals too! The burden of proof is moved to consumer and away from the manufacturer.
Nixon's TSCA and EPA began by deciding 10k's of chemicals were allowed for strictly commercial reasons with zero evidence of safety. The precautionary principle was never a consideration.
And medications…
The solution here is not to defund the FDA. It’s to give it the funding and power it needs to operate independently and in the best interest of consumers, not corporations.
McD puts Plaster of Paris in the buns to keep their shape. OSHA and MSDS says any consumption of Plaster of Paris is hazardous and recommends seeking medical attention. FDA says it's good to use. I guess you decide for yourself.
Calcium Sulphate is found in almost every classroom. It is usually used there to write on blackboards. It's gypsum. Exposure to it is not dangerous, many may have even eaten it during thier schooltime. The oral consumtion of soils, rocks and minerals is called geophagy.
@ gypsum, chalk, plaster of paris are all different forms with different properties. None of it is fit for human consumption, indubitably.
@@jannikheidemann3805 are you eating the chalk in your school?
Plaster? I sensed plastic hence only once I ate a burger there
@@finezyjnafantazja2495 Plaster of Paris is a form of calcium sulfate--other forms include chalk and drywall. It's not edible--but if you want a cheap filler...
Yes. Yes. Yes. I am so glad ya’ll made an easily digestible video so I can just send it to folks instead of trying to explain it. Thank you!
Best practice is to prepare food yourself from whole ingredients.
Environmental Working Group can be helpful.
I grew up with homemade bread, muffins, and pancakes made from wheat we ground. It was heavenly. Store bought bread either tastes chalky or is made of starch fluff. The vegetables my coworkers grow are rich and full of flavor. We Americans are being sold trash and silage.
okay, where do you buy those? unless YOU grow it?
@@RussellD11 Growing is best. Farmers market is an option. Basically, you could bake your own bread.
@@truecatholic1 Not scalable and not reasonable. The simpler approach is division of labor, specialization of trade, and to REGULATE.
@@RussellD11 Nowhere. Not in America. There's almost no reason to participate in civilization if it offers no net benefits.
Political donations and lobbyist. Follow the money.
Yep!!!
Look who's freaking out about RFK Jr the most. Listen to the insane questions they choose to ask him.
Right up to Trump and Elon.
@@maxwell_edison do you know what this is going to cost you?
Like everything American, the laws covering food standards are corrupt and frankly useless at protecting the consumer.
As a European it stuns me how often there are recalls of dangerous foods ... Plus how appalling N American food is. 😮
Pointing fingers at the FDA and saying it needs to do better is a lost cause. People need to start educating each other and not expect the state to do it.
The GRAS loophole is not a glitch. Lots of companies benefit from it. The tara flour example, while poignant, is not the best for understanding the immensity of benefit food corporations and big ag get from this loophole. Flavorings and dyes allow companies to produce a palatable shelf stable end product ever slightly more cheaply, which increases profit margins which ripple through the entire industry. There is simply no incentive (other than to do what is right) to eliminate that loophole. If we were to eliminate the loophole and retroactivity demand testing for current food additives, the industry would be severely impacted.
Imagine just getting a severe allergic reaction and having no idea what ingredient caused it.
Like idk if I’m allergic to some random flour made from seeds of a plant I’ve never heard of wtf
Isn't a major problem with FDA funding and heavy lobbying. By keeping FDA underfunded enough that it is slow to approve anything, the industry can lobby for exceptions for everything through politics.
Great report 👏👏👏👏
Corruption at every turn. Remember, it’s up and down.
Toxic US food supply
Stop eating the crap.
Living 60 years in this country and I've tasted the changes in my favorite foods. Just like cigarettes, putting profits over people 😢
And its so hard to check the ingredient label when everything you want to buy has a paragraph of ingredients, half of which are things you don't recognize.
Shouldn't school teach about chemistry and what is in our food?
@@TheSilverWolf1998 Seems like learning how to cook would take less time
@@jannikheidemann3805 They teach chemistry by its fundamentals and mechanics, not what extremely complicated chemicals they put in our food are for/do.
Why don’t we talk about the “Natural Flavors” loophole instead?????
👆YES!
*too
Thank you.
How many former FDA officials have cushy, high paid "consulting" or "board member" positions at the companies they used to "regulate"?
The increases in these nebulous chronic conditions like fibromyalgia, elhers dhalos, and so many others we're probably misdiagnosing because we've not discovered them yet are going to be traced back to this period of chemical free for all. I expect we'll never find out which causes what though as there's so many it'll be impossible to pick apart all the variables. Frankly if it's possible to make a version of what you want from scratch we should all be doing so. Maybe on a local level sahms and others not in the traditional workforce can start doubling up and selling real homemade food to their neighbors without the time or inclination.
Just to clarify, Elhers Danlos sydrome is a genetic condition not a suspected autoimmune disease like fibro.
For my money the increase in autoimmune conditions like Lupus, Asthma, Fibro, Parkinsons and more has it's roots in a GRAS ingredient. It's sugar in ultra processed foods and Sugar in general. We are getting too much along with many other chemicals in our ultra processed foods. I appreciate your post. Just wanted to clarify about Elhers Danlos which is something I have.
We may understand what causes what if we get a better understanding of the mechanisms in our body. Medicine is just beginning to understand the human body.
@puggirl415
Elhers Danlos is a connective tissue disorder. You are more susceptible to chemicals (including naturally occurring) in foods especially with high oxalates. I have EDS, nearly died in ICU.
@ Yes I've given up oxalates in my diet. They are not worth it because they cause joint pain for me.
Glysophates need to go first and foremost. Many people thinking they have a gluten allergy probably are reacting to glysophates.
Whoops, not true. Then all us gluten sensitives would react to all other foods with glysophate, but we don't necessarily. Gluten looks like nails under a microscope, it's hard to digest even for normies.
@@nikkijubilant they're saying that some people have reactions to glyphosate residue on wheat products & mistakenly think they're reacting to the gluten
@@nikkijubilantyou may have a true gluten allergy, some people don’t and that’s why they can eat gluten foods in Europe and elsewhere.
@@nikkijubilantwhoops true. Just like the tara, different metabolisms react differently even with the same disorder.
@@nikkijubilantand so what is gluten? I looked it up, have you? Why fon't you say what it is before saying what it looks like under a microscope?
Thank you so much for all the work you guys put into this video.
Here's a tip: "egg", ingredients: "egg". "Apple", ingredients: "apple". Got it? ❤ Keep it simple folks!
A little over a decade ago, I developed some kind of mystery gut ailment that has completely debilitated me. Now there are very few things I can eat without serious negative consequences, and even with strict regulation of my diet I'm literally sick all of the time.
Sorry you are dealing with such. Sounds like you've been trying to narrow "it" down and avoid it, hoping you'll be successful in doing so. My biggest problem is food allergies, soy is one of them and it's in every thing!
Try the Norman Walker plan. He invented the vegetable juicer. I grew up with digestionsl problems, went on his program 52 years ago. No more stomach problems.
My partner had this issue. No doctors could truly help beyond prescribing pills that treated the symptoms temporarily but never helped the root cause. She couldn't eat tomatoes, red meat, and garlic just to name a few.
In her case it turned out to be a combination of bad bacteria with not enough variety of good bacteria in the gut microbiome, and an underlying anxiety disorder causing stress-based pain.
I hope you can find what you need to recover too.
Sounds like something you ate ravaged your microbiome. There's gotta be some way to test what types of gut bacteria you have, right?
Basically, the FDA's philosophy is "if it's not demonstrably dangerous for health, it may be sold". In the EU (to take an example), the approach taken by regulating agencies is "if it's not shown to be safe, it doesn't go on people's plates or skin". While the latter is actually impossible to prove, it's an aspiration which translates to safer products in grocery stores.
I've never trusted food labels if it contains more than 3 to 5 plain ingredients
The biggest issue is that there are thousands of ingredients and not enough scientists.
This happened to the wine industry distilleries where adding stuff to wine and watering it down etc. there were like 20 (or something ridiculously low) auditories for thousands of wineries.
They should be more on top of stuff and maybe even pass laws that say you can no longer add new additivities until the olds are sorted out. There is not enough manpower to enforce it and our legal system is a slap on the wrist at best with fines.
I knew the FDA situation in America was bad, but god daaaaaamn I didn't expect a loophole to poison people. I'm Glad I was born in europe in this case. Very good video man, I hope it reaches the right people!
Remove the revolving door as well. How can it be legal to work in a regulatory body such as FDA, CDC and then get a future job in an industry you were recently regulating.
If you have a specialty that's needed at the FDA, then logically you'd work in that same specialty in the private sector if you ever leave. Government jobs pay terribly, thus the revolving door.
I’m curious as to who or why someone just picking out random chemicals🤔
Who decides to put it in the food. Are we being experimented on?
Seems real datk
The answer is yes. In America, you must scientifically prove it was a specific chemical or ingredient in a specific food that caused a specific harm to you. This is completely adversarial, reactive, and opt-out gotcha capitalism bulls++t that is the inversion of responsibility of European countries that use the precautionary principle as the basis for regulation.
Well they're not random. The things put in food all serve a purpose unless you're going to argue that companies just like wasting money adding things to products for funsies.
@@FilzupBilburp wouldnt be surprised if thats the case honestly
Certainly seems that way. Soft war and gray zone military tactics.
The chemicals are supposed to do something that the company wants their food to be. Sometimes it's for specific texture, or taste, or flavor. Other times it is straight up for addiction
I am a PhD in food science with over 30 years of experience. I admit that I have never fully understood the GRAS process.
As someone with crohn's disease, this scares me so badly. It's amazing how quickly i deal with stomach cramps from what I eat.
Thanks for your excellent reports!
Thank you, MPU
You left out a significant FDA fact: Too many involved in approvals at FDA get hired by corporations with BIG salaries as a thank you for the aporoval.
Bro there is absolutely no way AMANITA MUSCARIA is on an ingredients list like actually no way in hell
scrolled way too far to find this
You guys doing what the actual TV journalist should also do to educate people like they sometimes did back then
So the FDA is using the same methods they use for pharmaceutical approval as they are for food. Medicine and food regulatory agencies need to be FULLY separated
This is a direct result of a lack of the precautionary principle in the US. This is crazy.
I wouldn't be surprised if they received kickbacks from hospitals given that extra business they give each other
@SimGunther You know that has GOT to be what they're doing. One filthy hand dirties the other.
they dont need to all that needs is to know how harmful their product could be and then invest in health insurance companies
Its not just food, also supplements and cosmetics
It’s bizarre how little Americans seem to care for eachother, you’re a consumer first and fellow countryman secondly. Profit regardless of the well being of others.
That's why no body should be eating processed foods. We'll never know what goes into those packages.
Pay to play politics will never resolve American issues
In Denmark, the health ministry recently warned against hyperprocessed foods, and suggested we don't eat any products with more than 3 non-raw ingredients ... that's like most processed foods off the table.
Does that include stuff you cook? Cuz I cooked my chicken noodle soup today. Chicken, pasta, garlic, green onion, carrots, and various herbs/spices. All cooked. Is that 'too processed'? Or how about the cinnamon raisin bread I wanna make. Butter, honey, wheat flour, an egg, cinnamon, raisins. If he includes stuff cooked by the consumers, that's too many ingredients. Does he expect everyone to eat salads for most meals? Processing food is how humans became an agrarian species. I agree that there's too many untested and unsafe ingredients in most store-bought stuff, but the raw food diet is a ridiculous fad that no self-respecting politician should stand behind.
The FDA is like this... because Capitalism always ends up this way. Is it so hard to point the finger there?!
Socialism eliminates the concentrated wealth and power that allows Lobbying- which is a huge part of the problem. It also eliminates the Profit Motive- another issue...
Workplace Democracy and community ownership of businesses would help with these problems. Not fix them singlehandedly- but make them easier to fix...
Oh shut up. Socialism. Sure thing dude. We're all 'equal'. Even those who can't even think.
@@cjay2 Being pissy about the answer doesn't make it wrong. Socialism and Capitalism exist on a spectrum and no system is purely one or the other. We already have socialist policies in our system to make it livable (social security, public education, food aid, social services) so adding more isn't revolutionary, just fixing the problems we have. Modern countries slide along the spectrum as they seek to improve life for their citizens, or ruin it for their most wealthy and powerful.
Exactly. We would benefit greatly from more socialism, especially democratic socialism. Privatization needs to be banned frankly. Everything being public goods would make the USA a much more equitable, safer, and significantly less expensive place.
Lol socialist gullible idiots talking blaming economy system for again waht the gorv fails to do...
@@cjay2 the "equality" you speak of happens every election. And yet the average American is worse off. Craaaazy
Holy cow you showed a food ingredient label that contained amanita muscaria...that is the flying argaric mushroom. It is not only mildy toxic,but also hallucinogenic! Sign me up for that snack!
Farms should not be operated by corporations. Corporations are driven by profit not by service.
The REACH legislation from the EU is the model for what needs to happen. Our regulatory agencies, especially the FDA, have taken an incredibly arrogant and chauvinist approach to other countries' evaluations of ingredient safety as a way to delay regulation for their corporate captors. They always need to do their own "independent" review to confirm the EU's findings as if regulators in the EU are incapable or something. It's time this country and its people grew some humility and learned to *follow* countries or international agencies that have already discovered and have successfully implemented solutions we can't even fully conceptualize yet.
Nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to hearing about companies deciding profits vs health. Food, medicine, water, environment, all of it is being done as cheaply as possible without regard and without repercussion. We have plastic in our brains
Bruh, just go to the EU and copy paste what they deemed safe. Why do you need to go through double-work when they already figured it out.
Excellent topic. Next do cosmetic ingredients, and include all the microplastics in them (PEGs, acrylates, etc).
Make america think again