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Title: Revealed: Shocking list of popular foods and drinks readily available in U.S. grocery stores that are BANNED in other countries because their chemicals are deemed 'dangerous'
Post by: mystery-ak on June 21, 2013, 03:16:01 pm

Revealed: Shocking list of popular foods and drinks readily available in U.S. grocery stores that are BANNED in other countries because their chemicals are deemed 'dangerous'

    In Singapore, you can get sentenced to 15 years in prison and a $500,000 fine for using a chemical in food products that's common in frozen dinners
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By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 22:06 EST, 20 June 2013 | UPDATED: 09:43 EST, 21 June 2013



If you enjoy snacks and drinks like Mtn Dew, Chex Mix, Hungry Man frozen dinners, or roughly 80 percent of all the packaged foods sold in your average, American grocery store, you may want to sit down before reading this.

Many of the chemicals found in America's most common foods are considered to be so unhealthy that they're actually ILLEGAL in other countries.

A new book on nutrition lists six food additives that are found in a wide range of popular groceries sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration, but foreign governments have determined to be too dangerous to allow their citizens to consume.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2345564/Shocking-list-US-foods-BANNED-countries-containing-dangerous-chemicals.html#ixzz2WrdlE0XA

Title: Re: Revealed: Shocking list of popular foods and drinks readily available in U.S. grocery stores that are BANNED in other countries because their chemicals are deemed 'dangerous'
Post by: mountaineer on June 21, 2013, 03:35:38 pm

How on earth have we survived thus far?

Title: Re: Revealed: Shocking list of popular foods and drinks readily available in U.S. grocery stores that are BANNED in other countries because their chemicals are deemed 'dangerous'
Post by: sinkspur on June 21, 2013, 03:48:32 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL8HP1WzbDk

George Carlin:  The Planet is Fine

Title: Re: Revealed: Shocking list of popular foods and drinks readily available in U.S. grocery stores that are BANNED in other countries because their chemicals are deemed 'dangerous'
Post by: famousdayandyear on June 21, 2013, 04:24:07 pm

Quote from: sinkspur on June 21, 2013, 03:48:32 pm

George Carlin:  The Planet is Fine

 :howlin: :howlin: :howlin:

Title: Re: Revealed: Shocking list of popular foods and drinks readily available in U.S. grocery stores that are BANNED in other countries because their chemicals are deemed 'dangerous'
Post by: Oceander on June 23, 2013, 08:01:46 pm

Just because someone has "determined" that something is dangerous - or any other label - doesn't mean anything; what matters is the criteria used to make that determination, not the mere fact of the determination.

After all, in the late 1700s and early 1800s, the United States determined that slavery was legally acceptable, even if morally repugnant to some.  Does that mean that determination is worth even an iota of respect?

Title: Re: Revealed: Shocking list of popular foods and drinks readily available in U.S. grocery stores that are BANNED in other countries because their chemicals are deemed 'dangerous'
Post by: Cincinnatus on June 23, 2013, 08:33:56 pm

And fluoride was used extensively for nearly 200 years as a rat poison.

Drink up.  :laugh: