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[-] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 77 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These are "people" that have never read The Jungle.

(Assuming they've ever read any book at all...)

Guess we'll be expanding our diet to maggots, bug parts, and salmonella/e-coli whether we want them or not.

🙄 🤡 🖕

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

And of course the same people are whining about a globalist conspiracy to make them eat bugs

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

And lots of vitamin D! Which according to stience cures almost everything.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Those conservatives love their daily dose of D; whether it’s orally or topically, they can’t get enough.

[-] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago

Lettuce is gonna have a huge body count alone.

[-] DarkShaggy@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

Yep, this and mushrooms will need to come off the shopping list.

[-] AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

A perfect opportunity to venture into the wonderful world of mycology. Learn how to find and identify mushrooms in nature and how to grow your own mushrooms at home. Why limit yourself to supermarket mushrooms?

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Recommend growing what you know is safe. The amount of "could kill you" mushrooms in the US is fairly low IIRC, but the amount of "this looks almost identical to an edible species but will make your day/week Not Fun" species is high enough in most places that I wouldn't chance my luck on foraging.

[-] AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

There are some safe ones that are easy for even beginners to identify reliably, such as morels, but of course people should be careful with harvesting wild mushrooms and should never consume amy without being certain as to what each mushroom is. Even experienced mushroom foragers make mistakes sometimes, especially when similar looking mushrooms grow close together.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 month ago

Better get your freedom gardens in order folks. Good time of year to plant them, right now!

[-] jimerson@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

And some freedom chickens.

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 15 points 1 month ago

They're already saying in some places the vegetables and eggs in your garden are contaminated with PFAS.

[-] jimerson@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Wonder if the PFAS water test kits are any good, or if I should just pony up the $500 and send soil sample off to a lab. Not that I could do anything about it. Still gotta eat.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

Plant Hemp. It will grow fast and suck up most of those toxins and store them in the plant and roots. When harvesting just be sure to remove the roots and then till some compost back into the soil to fertilize it. You can easily get hemp from seed to full grown in 12-16 weeks.

[-] jimerson@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

It's great advice, but not if our local water supply is contaminated. I'd need more rain water collection than I have room for!

[-] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 weeks ago

Don't forget though that rain water collection is illegal in some places.

[-] jimerson@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

Astonishingly enough, in my very, very flawed state, rain water collection is not only legal, there are tax incentives for it. Although with the way things are going, it's probably only a matter of time before it's made illegal as another means of control.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Ooh, yeah. That's definitely a factor to consider.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Let the mass poisonings ... BEGIN!

USA currently ranks 49th for life expectancy at birth and will be going lower fast. What a shithole country.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 weeks ago

Didn't Elon say the problem with Social Security is that Americans live too long?

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Never been a better time to try meat alternatives like Quorn or Impossible, which likely will be far less risky compared to unregulated Upton Sinclair meat 2.0.

Especially Quorn, which is made in Ireland and thus has to pass EU safety inspections.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago

Feom what I can tell vegetables have been a lot more problematic recently. Though I'm just going from headlines.

[-] SwordandArt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

This is how you drive people to eat fast food.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

I guess someone missed the deadly onion issue with Wendy's recently

[-] SwordandArt@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

That’s an unprocessed vegetable. Get rid of them.

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Nothing but chemical filled junk for the filthy peasants!

[-] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

I like this other meat alternative called vegetables, don't know what the brand is though

[-] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Gotta watch the veggies too. Vegetable crops on mass scale are often fertilized with liquid manure or liquified human excrement by spraying in the case of large scale farms near large metropolitan areas.

Many areas that grow veggies also grow cattle and other animals which often pollutes with runoff, the water sources for vegetable farmers and meat farmers alike.

No one is saved by this. Not the veggies or the carnivores. It's bad all around. Quit infighting because you eat different food. You have a dictator controlling your government and courts.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 month ago

It's easier to switch people to plant based meats than it is to cut out meat-like foods entirely and potentially abandon their cherished family or cultural recipes that involve meat.

It's all plants in the end, after all, with all the climate emission and health benefits that brings :)

[-] ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Sorry for the snarky comment, I just personally don't see the need for meat shaped plant based products that cost 10 times what their ingredients would cost. To each their own though, still better than giving your money to the industrial meat industry.

[-] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

And the over production plus the addition of whatever additives are added to make vegetable proteins look, feel and taste somewhat like meat.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In the case of Quorn, it's mainly Mycroprotein, a type of fungus that naturally grows into a meat-y like texture and has a neutral flavor that absorbs spices or vegan stocks really well. They do use a little egg whites as a binder, making it vegetarian, not vegan (unfortunate), but it doesn't really have any nasty additives. It's basically a fancy mushroom.

Impossible Beef is definitely more processed, but there's nothing in the ingredients list that stands out as particularly bad to me:

Ingredients: Water, Soy Protein Concentrate, Sunflower Oil, Coconut Oil, 2% Or Less Of: Natural Flavors, Methylcellulose, Cultured Dextrose, Food Starch Modified, Yeast Extract, Dextrose, Soy Leghemoglobin, Salt, Vitamin E (Tocopherols), L-Tryptophan, Soy Protein Isolate,

Vitamins and Minerals: Zinc, Vitamins (B3, B1, B6, B2, and B12)

[-] KMAMURI@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'll stick with beans and lentils thanks. But I am also a meat eater. Only what we raise ourselves and hunt though.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 weeks ago

No worries.

As a personal anecdote, I would not have been able to convert my family to vegetarians without the help of these meat alternatives, as their traditional meat based dishes were very important to them.

So while costly, they are a valuable tool in furthering the cause, in my experience.

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[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Don’t conservatives hate the fake meat industry? They will go for that and make it illegal next probably.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

Impossible has been harassed with shady recall and regulatory practices lately. I can hardly find their products anymore and they used to be everywhere where I shop.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Especially those meat alternatives are in danger. Have you ever looked up the ingredients and especially the chemicals put into a "vegan nugget"?

Any industry now f-ing up one chemicals' purity and safety can really do a number on a lot of people who thought they took the safer route.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 weeks ago

Farther down in another comment, I point out to another user that the ingredients of Impossible beef are quite mundane and not at all concerning. Here's the ingredients list for Impossible Chicken nuggets:

Water, Wheat Flour, Soy Protein Concentrate, Soybean Oil, Sunflower Oil, Potato Starch, Methylcellulose, Natural Flavors, Salt, Cultured Dextrose, Wheat Gluten, Yeast Extract, Yellow Corn Flour, Dextrose, Food Starch Modified, Sugar, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Spices, Leavening (Cream of Tartar, Sodium Bicarbonate), Dried Yeast, Paprika Extract (for color), Vitamin E (Tocopherols), Zinc, Vitamins (B3, B5, B1, B6, B2, and B12)

None of those jump out as particularly unhealthy or dangerous to me. The Soybean oil probably isn't the best for you due to not being expeller pressed, but otherwise, nothing that would kill you.

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[-] O_R_I_O_N@lemm.ee 26 points 4 weeks ago

That's easily going to cost Americans Billions in addition healthcare that we already can't afford

[-] glitch1985@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

Food testing isn't really needed when the food runs out. This administration is just thinking ahead.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 21 points 4 weeks ago

Eating glass and daily diarrhea to pwn the libs

[-] goofus@lemmy.today 15 points 1 month ago

i guess there were too many recalls.

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 8 points 4 weeks ago

Wow! But don't you all worry, as soon as one of us gets sick or dies, we'll know who hot food poisoning. And we'll continued eating it up. Did I miss anything? Like maybe reacting differently to such an event? Nah! That's why chicken is so expensive! Its all the chlorine!

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago
[-] ShitposterSupreme@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Youre in the jungle baby! Youre gonna dieeeee!

[-] boughtmysoul@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Companies still have to feed people and not get them sick. Or no return customers.

This is a stupid ass decision but trust the profit lines here. Companies will not want to poison their customers, it's just bad for business.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 18 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It'll be like the good old days before the FDA when the warning sign that food was contaminated was people dying and companies regularly put additives like sawdust in food because it made their profits better.

We tried self-regulation of all these industries. That's why we created government regulation.

[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’m going to just stick to frozen veggies and cooking them bitches in the oven or skillet. Also, I’ve been hoarding canned food from Aldi made in Germany.

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