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with all the back to school lunch stuff going around i keep seeing the lunchly kits called the healthier lunchable, I wanted to get it for my daughter, I read into the labs reports on it (lab source) (yes i do that) the lunchly the pizza kit came back at 0.4 micrograms of Lead per kit, and the lunchables pizza with pepperoni came back at 0.4 too. californias daily limit for Lead is 0.5 micrograms a day...

the whole pitch on their site is a calorie and sugar comparison against lunchables, and the sugar is only lower because they swapped it for artificial sweeteners, and of course they have a good amount of lead in it. its always the same thing, a new brand shows up saying its the clean version and the numbers come back identical. so tired of the greenwashing.

I saw a reel about health brands that got caught and went to fact check the butter one. an EPA certified lab tested butter wrappers for Organic Fluorine, which is the marker they use for PFAS Forever Chemicals, and kerrygold pure irish butter came back at 61 ppm on the unsalted wrapper and 122 ppm on the salted (lab source). the part that gets me is you pay double for this one specifically to get away from the cheap stuff.

it got pulled off shelves in new york and california in early 2023 and came back a couple months later with new packaging. I wish their was a way to tell if brands where lying like this, i got rid of my teflon pans for this and now I have to worry about plastic packaging?

I follow Seven sundays on instagram and saw a apology video, their grain free cereal was tested to have 223ppb of glyphosate (the weed killer linked to cancer) and went and looked over the lab tests (source) and it had more glyphosate than all other cereals COMBINED. EWG daily limit for glyphosate is 160ppb.

I pay a premium for this brand, and while i appreciate the fact that they pledged to get better, but this is absurd. the fact that honey nut cheerios beat them is crazy. i am shocked.

I saw a recent reel on this topic and looked into it. The map for glyphosate usage and cancer rates are basically identical, with Iowa the highest sprayer of glyphosate per square acre also being only 1 of the 3 states with rising cancer rates. Conventional farmers spray glyphosate to kill weeds and right before harvest to dry the crop and this compound can drift in the air over 1k feet. and a good amount of it ends up on our food (source)

this is exactly why i'm guessing most people here eat organic (even organic now has glyphosate), but for those next to the fields and those who cannot afford organic, this isn't super solvable. this is so crazy, and our government protecting it to is icing on the cake.

i've been personally buying avocado oil brands to stay away from lots of bad fats, and i saw this study and went to dig into it. UC Davis tested a bunch of avocado&olive oil food products last month and 48 of 54 failed a purity test source. (failed meaning the oil went rancid [went bad] or was cut with other cheaper oils like seed oils)

the part that really got me is that food claiming “100% avocado oil” or “pure avocado oil” failed just like everything else. one chip sample even matched the cellular profile of Soybean Oil. there’s no FDA definition for avocado oil at all, so apparently a label can say “pure” and it can basically mean nothing. meanwhile, you're paying a 300 to 500% premium for it.

i've been paying extra for these to try and eat cleaner, and they lace products with cheaper stuff to save a dime. we should be able to trust a label, crazy...

I saw a recent video about heavy metals in kids products and went to fact check it. hello's fresh watermelon kids toothpaste got lab tested and came back at 493 ppb of Lead and 19 ppb of Mercury (source). for reference the level thats suppose to be safe for kids is 5 ppb lead.

and its the fluoride free natural one, the one youd grab if your trying to avoid the junk. thier dragon dazzle flavor came back 428. we all read labels now but lead isnt a ingrediant so its not printed anywhere, reading the box gets you nothing. theres a class action over it now.

Colgate bought hello in 2020 for 351 million. every single time man. and kids swallow half of what goes on the brush anyway. what are y'all actually brushing with?

in June of 2023 lab grown meat was FDA approved, with Tyson backing a Israeli biotech making it.

It's made by immortalizing scraped cells from a live animal, so they divide forever like a cancer cell, then feeding it growth serum so it turns back into flesh.

Personally ill be using canola oil on my lab grown steak! All jokes aside, this is crazy and the startup went bankrupt last December, but Tyson is still looking to invest surely. How can we avoid this dystopia happening?

the "fragrance" term in perfumes is actually a federally protected blanket term allowing undisclosed compounds in the product (source). one of these items that is almost always in such are phthalates, a plasticizer meant to make plastics malleable.

you spray this on your neck, everyday, your neck is your thinnest part of your skin allowing these endocrine disruptors to leach in causing infertility etc.

why are these even in perfumes? why does everyone in society seem to spray on their neck when it can affect you poorly?

I look at this site called plastic list a lot and found smth strange, annies ORGANIC mac and cheese has a ton of plasticizers in it, ranking top 28% of all products tested (1.2k nanograms per serving), and this is a super high amount. Plasticizers are chemically similar to hormones you have and are linked to infertility.

This brand uses no plastic in their final product, so this is super surprising. I had been giving this to my daughter for 2 years now, what else do we even buy? Why is this even in the product?

The Taiwanese Gov. tests for these chemicals when they get imported, and recently they found Ethylene Oxide in Domino's sauce, the same thing as rat poison in their sauce. Where they denied it into their country.

I'm guessing not a single one of us eats this slop, but why are some governments actually doing work while ours lays back?

I saw this recent video after watching the news on it. Breyers and other companies cannot legally be called ice cream by the FDA anymore because they dont contain enough milkfat to be called it.

I stopped eating ice cream a while ago but i also heard from a tallow video that ice cream increases longevity? what do y'all eat? actually wild.

A while ago the World Health Org listed all deli meats as class 1 carcinogens, the same as asbestos & tobacco. I learned from a video that this was because of the added Nitrates (mutates DNA in your stomach), not exactly because of the "meat". So I stopped getting meat w/ added nitrates.

I just learned however that celery powder has natural nitrates in them, which still cause the same chemical reactions. what can we even eat now? This really upsets me.

i've seen some recent posts about chikfila and chipotle, one being a chickfila mac and cheese lasted 2 years in a hot truck without molding (103 ingredients btw) and chipotle having phthalates (linked to infertility) in their food.

After seeing these things a bit ago, I wonder why are people trusting these fast food places? Are people thinking places like chipotle are healthy when they have high amounts of seed oils like rice bran oil?

The starbucks ceo came out and said their new 9$ dollar drink is an “affordable premium experience.” starbucks used to be cheap no? he says their atmosphere is so good people just go for it. who is doing that??

also their coffee is being made cheaper and cheaper with slave labor (modern day slave labor) from south america.

inflation is not hitting them, they are greedy. go to your local coffee shop.

I saw this news post about chipotle having phthalates in their food, the study seems to be valid.

Not only this but they use seed oils (heated on their grill as well). Chipotle always seemed healthy to me, but is it rlly that bad?