darkswordsman17
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- Mar 11, 2004
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The problem is the fact that they put all sorts of fillers and without these 3rd party tests we would not know. In some cases it's stuff that's bad (like the petroleum product that is used in their bread). If something says it's chicken, it should be only chicken. The whole idea that they can shove any fillers they want in our food should not be allowed. There needs more regulations on that. Or at very least regulate it on the same level as mom and pop shops are regulated... which is super extreme. Corporations need to stop getting free breaks. Soy is not as bad as some other stuff that gets put into our food, but it's still not that great for you. Something about how it messes up your hormones or something.
If a mom and pop shop was doing something like this they'd get slapped pretty hard. Heck, even if they don't, in lot of cases they're simply not allowed to sell stuff period. Like those ladies that were selling baked goods on Facebook and got arrested for it. The stuff they were selling was more than likely much better for you than stuff that comes out of a chain. At least it's normal ingredients in it. The issue is the government is more worried about licensing and other bureaucratic BS like that than the actual safety of the food. It makes it very hard for a small shop to survive as the requirements are too high when corporations can do what they want because they're so big.
Bullshit, they legally have to say this. Yes, they have tried to get away with not having to but the FDA has routinely stopped that. Like the chocolate deal. Same with "cheese product" instead of real cheese. There's tons of that.
You can't just say "it's bad" because it is nowhere near as bad as you make it out to be. In fact it absolutely is safe for consumption in how it was used (dosage matters entirely), but you hear "chemical" and lose your mind because you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
See, that's the thing. Chicken you're eating isn't fucking chicken because it's typically breaded and seasoned, meaning you absolutely are not eating 100% chicken even when they aren't doing anything like you claim (about using fillers and shit), and the regulations force them to have to abide by that. They can say 100% chicken when they source it. But there's a reason why they typically say "we start with all/whole/full chicken and then bread it in our special secret recipe", because they legally cannot claim it's 100% chicken when they're breading it.
You REALLY need to actually start to know what the fuck you're talking about on basically every single subject. You consistently are way off. Do you even listen to yourself? Seriously. Your first paragraph is going "they need more regulations!" and then your second one is saying they need less. WTF? I know it's because you are woefully misinformed of so much of this stuff, but you really really really need to stop just taking stories on the slanted way you do. This is a major problem on both the right and the left, and both are so fucking horribly ignorant when it comes to topics like these, just often in total opposite directions that its absurd.
The women on Facebook weren't arrested, they were sued though. And that happened because they refused to stop doing it after being told that they were doing it on a level that required them to follow regulations for food sale. That's why.
Mom and Pop shops can do all the same food bullshit that corporations do. No idea why you think that. And lots of them do, and lots of them are sourcing their stuff from middlemen providing the same shit to major chains.
I highly doubt the shit they were selling was any healthier. Home made doesn't not mean it's any healthier. Same with "from scratch". It certainly can, but it often doesn't. Like when people say "we used to eat so much healthier", straight up bullshit. Cracked has had several articles on recipes that used to be common, and holy shit they're full of disgusting stuff (and lots of process things). We're talking stuff like meat in jell-o. Even when they'd eat "healthy" they'd slather butter and lard on veggies and shit (if you think that's healthy then you're outright delusional). Among many many other things that made food absolutely worse in the past.
What pisses me off the most about people like you is that there are legitimate situations that resemble some of the things you believe, but you then project that across the entirety of the industry and believe every single thing that supports your beliefs on the subject versus actually knowing what the situation is. And then you go around supporting politicians that actively are doing the opposite of what you want done because again you let your ignorance and willfulness to make things support what you want to believe that you can't see it.