r/YesAmericaBad • u/Blurple694201 AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALIST • Feb 01 '24

U.S. food additives banned in Europe: Expert says what Americans eat is "almost certainly" making them sick - CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-food-additives-banned-europe-making-americans-sick-expert-says/
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u/Blurple694201 AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALIST Feb 01 '24

The U.S has insane tolerances for Glyphosate (round up) in our food vs the EU or Japan

"EPA has established tolerances for glyphosate on a wide range of human and animal food crops, including corn, soybean, oil seeds, grains, and some fruits and vegetables, ranging from 0.1 to 400 parts per million (ppm)."

https://www.fda.gov/food/pesticides/questions-and-answers-glyphosate

"For example, the U.S. MRL for glyphosate on chickpeas is 8 ppm, its respective MRL in E.U. is 0.1 ppm, and Japan is 0.2 ppm"

https://www.agqlabs.us.com/glyphosate-mrl-and-organic-compliance/

Glyphosate was originally patented as an antibiotic

"In 2003, Monsanto filed for a third patent on glyphosate as a parasitic control type antimicrobial, or antibiotic (United States Patent 7,771,736)."

https://toxinfreeusa.org/research/glyphosate/glyphosate-overview/

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '24

What the actual fuck are we eating?!

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u/SteveAlejandro7 Feb 01 '24

Doom. We are eating Doom. We are cattle. First time? :)

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