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[โ€“] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 125 points 3 weeks ago (76 children)

YSK that average or even lower quality meat from the EU would almost always be considered 'premium' by US standards. What Americans eat on a daily basis is straight up illegal in the EU. Leave it to the richest country on the planet to feed its citizens with literal poisoned trash.

[โ€“] elbiter@lemmy.world 67 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Americans eat as if they had an excellent healthcare system. Or a healthcare system at all.

[โ€“] Gsus4@mander.xyz 39 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's the opposite: the state has no responsibility to heal anyone, so they don't give a crap about prevention through regulation.

They eat exactly as the healthcare system they have.

[โ€“] musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

Americans eat like they believe in God's salvation.

[โ€“] bystander@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

"Freedom" means freedom from safety nets

[โ€“] QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Do you have a valid source for that claim?

[โ€“] rapchee@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] locahosr443@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To expand on this example, people worry about the bleach when they hear this but it's not used at dangerous levels as I remember it.

The issue is the meat is so disgusting in the first place it needs to be washed to not kill off its consumers. We don't wash meat in Europe, because we have standards

[โ€“] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

To go even further, in Japan they have a breed of chicken so clean that it's eaten as sushi. Here in the US, undercooked chicken or unwashed eggs are a salmonella risk - as is pretty much any other food due to contamination. There was a massive recall on lettuce a few years ago across the country for salmonella contamination.

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[โ€“] maam@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

Cheese wiz in cans, banned in Canada.

[โ€“] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can confirm. The UK has some of the most delicious meat I've tasted, and I know for a fact that someone right now living in the EU cringed internally just reading this sentence lol

[โ€“] viking@infosec.pub 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Nah the UK adopted EU food safety standards in full and didn't get rid of them post brexit.

...yet.

[โ€“] maam@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

Good to know! Canadians embarrass themselves copying America in this regard.

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[โ€“] P00ptart@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How do you think we became the richest country on earth? Capitalism run amok and fucking people over.

[โ€“] gloriousspearfish@feddit.dk 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why do you believe the USA is the richest country in the world?

You are without a doubt the country in the world with the most debt however.

[โ€“] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

GDP (nominal), global economic output, total household wealth/assets...

[โ€“] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Technically we are. It's just very, VERY poorly distributed.

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