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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.
Their goods were appealing?
I’ve avoided all food from America for more than a decade.
Genuinely can’t think of anything we eat that comes from there. It’s too far for anything fresh and too expensive for anything cheap.
Look for soy ingredients.
They had food and safety regulations?
Beef must contain at least 35% beef to be called beef in the states. That is the level of regulations they had, so now? Does beef need any cow?
Your beef can legally contain mostly not beef?
Mine?! Oh don’t put that evil nationality on me. But yes the fools in the states seem to require that something called beef needs to be comprised of at least 35% cooked beef
Kinda disingenuous as the list you linked is for prepared meals like beef dumplings. In what world would you consider that product to be 100% beef? lol
Ah yes, it is I and the rest of the world that is crazy. When we ask for “beef” dumplings we clearly only want at least 35% beef inside…
Oh and for our Beef and gravy as well:
Well… yeah? I mean think about what a dumpling is, how much flour and water it takes to make? I don’t understand your point?
35% is low, and prepared meals include things like “beef taco filling” or “dumpling filling”. You seem to think there is only 35% and 100%. Unless you are being disingenuous.
I suppose they have regulations for the safety of manufacturers from consumers.
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 think that’s bad, milk was so much worse. Companies fed cows leftover brewing grains which made their milk shitty, added cow brain to imitate cream, plaster of Paris to whiten it, and formaldehyde to preserve it. Thousands of kids died because of it and it’s a big part of why the FDA was founded in the first place.
Wood is too healthy for the American population
Not even real wood, wood thinner and artificial wood pulp made out of microplastics
They already add sawdust to a ton of shit.
Unclear how true this is but I was told years ago that Taco Bell cut their beef with cellulose…so…cardboard so Jokes on you, we may have figured out the sawdust angle years ago. Capitalist innovation baby
No one wants to visit that fascist state anymore.
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.
Americans watching Europeans clamp down tighter controls on speech 👀
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]
Wash chickens lunch?
I assume they are referencing the US practice of washimg chicked carcases in chlorine.
The EU claims that allowing that type of washing makes producers less incetiviced to avoid bacterial contamination elsewhere in the production chain and therefore more likely to expose customer to disease. US companies treat the animals like shit, and treat the meat like shit and then argue that washing the carcases in chlorine solves it and makes it a more competetive product that they really want to sell on the EU market.
The US market only ever optimise for cost. So they get shitty products. Since they have lots of monopoly going on, they get shitty and expensive combo. Other markets try to make ‘good products’ competetive and regulate markets, so the products available will be good and reasonably priced.
Allowing sub standard US products on the market will make for more expensive and more dangerous products.
Yes, thank you. Reference the need for washing chickens in bleach. My silly typing without checking. Most of the rest of the world use quality assurance rather than forgetting about standards and relying upon the nuclear option to make terribly prepared poultry slightly safer.
My typo, corrected now. One-handed typing on a train does not always work well.
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.
A minimum of 2 fully fluorinated carbon atoms instead of 1 is NOT broadening the definition. That’s narrowing it.
Think of the definition as a sluice gate. When you allow more things through, you’re opening it wider, therefore broadening the definition. I know it’s counter-intuitive sometimes to think of it like that. Narrowing the definition would be to let fewer things through, thus closing the gate.
Edit: Reading through the discourse below, I think I see the points made. It might should be reversed.
Allowing more things through, if I understand your analogy correctly in this case, is broadening the exceptions – things not matched by the definition.
But, I’ll bite, let’s dive in. In a Venn diagram, substances with a minimum of 2 fully fluorinated carbon atoms is a subset of substances with a minimum of 1fully fluorinated carbon atoms, yes? Similarly, M&Ms with only red and green colors is a subset of M&Ms of any color, yes? If a person was to change their personal definition of acceptable M&Ms from any color to only red and/or green, would you call that broadening that definition?
The worry is that your family will go to the US and eat something awful and become maimed.
The secret trick is not going to the US until radical changes in their government.
The world is a big place with many things to see, just choose some other country for your vacations.
Oh I’m staying away it’s just that I’m worrying about others who aren’t paying attention to the wickedness in Uncle Sam.
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Tin Foil Hat time: So what the gov/corps wants to do is make those people who cook their own food become sick/distrustful of safe food so they buy the heavily processed premade products from the tobbacco…I mean FOOD companies filled with all their artificial ingredients that hook you into a junk food addiction downward spiral.
…now that I say (write) that out loud (virtually) it doesn’t sound that far fetched
Wait why would premade foods be better than making your own
They’re not, highly processed foods are made with 'addictive chemical’s. This is what the tobacco companies saw in the food market and why the bought up all the food processing companies.
So if real food is bad you’re going to get the ‘safer’ product.
Americans have a weird idea that fast food isn’t just mostly the same ingredients you see in a store + sugar and preservatives and that by cooking you somehow elevate the ingredients to a higher quality.
There is research showing that processed foods are worse for you, even if the exact mechanism isn’t clear. Plus there are more opportunities for various contamination, a lot of the recalls you see for dangerous pathogens seem to be premade food products. Although yeah, fast food would also have that problem.
Almost all foods are processed and most are some degree of premade. You better hope so too, because “processing” gets rid of like the insanely high risk of contamination that food has in nature. Eating meat of a deer carrying some virus or bacteria or simply being poisoned by fungi affecting some plant was how non-agricultural humans died a lot, and it’s only once we started processing everything, like e.g. ultra heat-treated & pasteurized milk that food quality improved.
This means the EU follows next, since they are all puppets. Time to grow our own food.
