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At McDonald's, I saw that their sweet tea comes from a plastic bag inside a metal container, which stays in there all day. That doesn’t seem sanitary. Then I found out some places, like Olive Garden, heat soup in plastic bags by putting them in hot water. Isn’t this like leaving a water bottle in a hot car, where plastic leaches into the liquid? How is this okay? Like, I feel like that would be so explicitly illegal in other countries. Taking a big plastic bag of soup and just throwing it in water for the plastic to obviously separate from the bag and be intermingled with the food...

It sounds a lot like poison, like it's literally poisonous. Like how is this okay in the USA?

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[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is a very complex and nuanced issue seeing as plastics as a class of materials can vary greatly in its manufacturing process and if any coatings are used. Some materials have varing use cases, also new materials, coatings, and process combinations are created constantly. Additionally a material might not have noticeable effects on a person for 10+ years.

The American government could pass legislation and studies could be done for both old and new materials and manufacturing process with an introduction of an approval and inspection process. However, did you know that worrying about what corporations do to Americans is "woke"?

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 days ago

Telling corpos not to poison is also gay, real men just take the corpo dick, no questions asked. You just say no homo, everything is 100% straight here

[-] socsa@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

USA bad. Uplemmy left

Shortly, it’ll get even looser.

ALL GAS NO BRAKES WCGW

[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

The USA puts colourings, additives, and other bits a pieces in food that is unnecessary, or unhealthy, but creates flavour. Then they go to other countries and say “your food tastes like shit”.

[-] kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Packaged foods in different countries are exactly the same as what you can find in the US. They are all loaded up with the same stuff. But, just like anywhere else in the world, lots of people make their own food from scratch or buy healthy alternatives.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

Holy shit NO! Half of your additives are illegal in Europe

[-] kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

First, don't assume "your". Second, you are using the EU as a reference. What about the Middle East, Asia, Africa, or the Pacific? As someone who has traveled the world, there is junk food in every culture and most of it is garbage.

[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

USA use chlorine, excessive amounts of salt and sugar, and a ridiculous amounts of other additives.

Other countries regs are much stronger.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 days ago

Us did pioneer the slop industry so we ate three generations into consuming that trash to t point where maw grew up eating hamburger helper. Majority of Americans don't even understand what is or how it is made beyond what commercials tell them.

Blue coloured corn flakes is yummm tho 🤡

Or Cheerios.

Won't eat oatmeal...

Too Poor too cook rice and beans, but will eat chips out of the back that costs 3-4x of rice and beans

Even fast food ain't cheap no more but at least, they cutting back on that now.

[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

The fuck are yall on about... food from anywhere else is the best. I would go to events in Iceland regurally enough and it takes me a week or so after getting back to stop noticing that everything state side tastes like plastic.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk -4 points 2 days ago

Modern British food is some of the best in the world, far better than American slop.

Show me one yank that agrees with that

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

My favorite is British "lasagna."

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[-] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee -2 points 2 days ago

I’m stereotyping.

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago
  • yes, that’s poisonous
  • yes, we have food safety standards
  • that can be completely ignored if you have the money
  • and yes, RFK Jr. will do the best he can to reduce our standards even further
  • to give you an idea of how much of a joke it is, the US label for “safe” is GRAS “generally recognized as safe”
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