How Americans Are Tricked Into Buying Fake Food
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- Опубликовано: 14 янв 2023
- The food in your kitchen cabinets may not be what it seems. Fraudsters motivated by economic gain secretly infiltrate the global food market through a variety of means, including counterfeits, dilutions, substitution and mislabeling, according to the Global Food Safety Initiative. This may not only harm consumers’ wallets, but it can also put public health and safety at risk. Some estimates say food fraud affects at least 1% of the global food industry at a cost as high as $40 billion a year, according to the FDA.
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How Americans Are Tricked Into Buying Fake Food
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Companies need to be held accountable. Not by being fined, but by being pulled from the market.
I blame the FDA
We need to hold corporations and the people who make these decisions accountable. Avoidance is not enough.
@@jacobprince6602 So do I
@@jacobprince6602 blame on yourself for trusting a..holes
The problem is the ceos can launch a new company with a new name and new packaging but the same old tricks.
We Europeans often rant about how strict EU regulations of food labelling are but seeing this makes me really grateful for them.
As an American, that's a good thing if their are the right strictuons, which as many as possible at the same time. That's why and how you guys have such amazing quality and such you guys do stuff most of the time better than America does! It's not a bad thing as long as they are the right stricted strictions and as many as possible to make sure theirs little low quality food as possible which is good and you guys are lucky and I've been wanting to move to europe for a better life like denmark 🇩🇰, netherlands 🇳🇱, and finland 🇫🇮 are my biggest ones to move too right now.
Me too, I'm very thankful for Europe's accountability on this!
@ exactly
@@StephenC-lg7jy because he can and that shows that europe is better than America even if it's not perfect
@@andrewreynolds912 Move to Netherlands if you want to be surrounded by Abdul from Morocco and Yasin from Algeria.
No one is mentioning that we are forced to pay more for food that they do not add awful ingredients to. That is such a racket and crazy.
We’re not forced to do anything, we can buy from local farmers.
@@Deiidreamng6855 Assuming you have sufficient access and budget
Maybe because that has nothing to do with the video
No one is talking about why salt raises blood pressure in this video either, but that's because it has nothing to do with this video.
@@Dartheomus Salt does not raise blood pressure nor is it a disease. You need MORE salt, not less. Check your magnesium levels.
I’m a 51 year old American and I know that as I’ve gotten older it seems the food has gotten worse. I never had any problems with my gut when I was younger, but now I have gut issues very frequently. And I’m an active healthy person with no illnesses, not overweight, no issues. It’s disgusting what they are allowed to get away with here.
We also develop gut and other health issues as we age!
It's not cheap either when comparing U.S. food prices with the U.K.
It's almost like these food companies decide what we put into our stomachs.
I wish we had European quality food 😢
Capitalism incentivizes these sketchy and evil doings.
The penalties for this sort of crime should be a lot higher than they are currently. Sometimes companies are just being fined. I guarantee that if company management thought they would go to jail for food fraud they would think twice about doing it.
government acquisition of property and crippling fines that they spend a decade paying off should be a norm irrespective of how rich or poor they are.
bbbut think of the profit margins :( poor megacorporations
Yes
Didn't China execute the CEO of a company that produced tainted baby formula which killed some kids?
Good point. It totally should be that way.
This is what happens when your government is filled with people who care more about corporations turning a profit than protecting citizens.
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Sad but true. We need to get all the private donations and kickbacks out of politics.
This is what happens when so much money involved in our politics, in getting elected
Corporations donate more than you. Representatives represent their donors. Like Joe Biden said, I don't work for you.
This is what happens when government.
Someone’s Life isn’t a joke.. these people should lose their licenses and put behind bars for risking innocent people’s lives..
Employees at every level of the food supply chain should have whistleblower protection worldwide. They know what's going on. We, consumers, are not that sophisticated to know every little detail about every food item we purchase.
The US hates whistleblowers, we are a corporate nation.
It’s not about being sophisticated we are literally not there and not in control
This is what happens when you live in a society where the elites are not held accountable...
Whenever another country finds a cheap shortcut, or a way to corrupt people and make them stupider, there are people here in US who copy it, also.
People are the same the world over. I hope we all start copying the good people.
@@lizh1988 💯💥💗
I think Americans are slowly waking up to how ridiculously unfair their society is
There NOT elites the are bottom feeders! We are the elites!
@@jenlin6715 as in Taxes
The penalties for food fraud should be high enough to bankrupt companies on the first offense. I bet they would magically find a way to be transparent. Food fraud is rampant because it's worth it.
Ban farm subsidies. Convince gov to let everyone that wants use an acre of free tax free land to grow their own food and live on it
Subsidies should be saved for methods of food production that are ethical and sustainable, like farms for organic plant foods.
Concentrated Animal Food Operations should be taxed heavily for all of the negative impacts on the environment and our society as a whole.
Lies again? Fake Marketing
The first people thrown in prison should be FDA personnel
I honestly think we need to start revoking corporate charters again, having a corporate death penalty should be more than enough motivation to get any Big Corp to fall in line.
Yet, not a single company was called out. Worthless reporting.
An employee at an olive oil factory said that they bottle the exact same oil that got pressed by one machine into different shaped bottles with different labels and brands that say anything from cold pressed EVOO to plain olive oil.
After hearing that, I stopped consuming a lot of olive oil. I could have been eating vegetable oil by the spoonfuls thinking it’s good for me.
My chiropractor does muscle testing for supplements. I think I am going to start asking him to muscle testing my food.
Why are you drinking olive oil by the spoonfuls?
@@everythingpony That could sound weird to some people now that I look at it 😆. I I used to love dipping bread in olive oil. And I had a lot of bread everyday. Sometimes, I actually did take a spoonful of olive oil by itself to taste it if it was a new one that I had never tried before. I was consuming a lot of olive oil.
Wow, if only Americans had an agency that could protect them ….we could even call it the Food and drug administration, that’s a catchy name
They are too busy doing drugs there I guess. Lol.
Crips, bloods, fda. All are catching names and cut from the same mold
Gotta love Americans. We complain about lack of regulation, after we see the consequences, but then vote for anyone that says they’ll cut our taxes
Excellent comment 👌 👍 👏
Unfortunately, the FDA cannot inspect every batch of every food sold everywhere in the country at every step of the way. This means it is difficult to impossible to completely block it.
It saddens me that the FDA does such a poor job at protecting our food supply. If this was treated as an attack on Americans (which it is), it would go a long way in preventing this fraud. We pay too much money for food, too not know what’s in it.
The government isn't here to help you
They know, and they’re getting paid. We are living under the most corrupt government ever. Everything is designed to make them and their friends rich, and leave taxpayers poor and sick. Then the corrupt pharmaceutical companies appear with drugs to fix the problem caused by diet. Round and round it goes.
You think the FDA cares about your health when TSP (rat poison) is in children's cereal?
True, and so sorry for that. We do pay their salaries.
The goverment does not care
This legit hurts my soul. I can’t eat most foods because of a chronic GI illness and I rely of the food labels being accurate. I know I’ve have these fake olive oils because my stomach hurts after eating them…
This is probably why you have GI issues.
If that is you picture your a Great looking Broad.
You should definitley go to another country because its only here in the US mostly or try the islands alot of people say while their on vacay their not sick so maybe give it a try.
💔👀💔Go see the true story made into movie *The Killers of The Flower Moon* and you may find the group responsible for your and many other plyte.😒
@NT-gi7lb some went to jeffery Epstein island.
Being an elderly person, my life has passed through the 50's into the many decades that have followed.
50's -
Any, every grocery store contained produce that smelled..
Potatoes, lettuce, beans had aroma that hit you in the face the minute you opened the door .
That 'scent' is completely gone.
Even in open outdoor markets where the items might even have been picked that very day.!!
Then, the explosion of 'products occured. Products and not food.
Into the 80's the Taste started disappearing. Foods that I purchased over and over suddenly lost their flavors..
Now, we know that food manufacturers are being geared into openly admitting their 'products' are completely 'man-factured' as a 'Product', instead of actually being a food for human consumption..
I wish more people, especially younger americans, would read your comment. So many people in the US today seem to have no idea that produce is actually supposed to smell and taste very strongly, and don't realize it until they travel and eat in a country that still produces and sells unadaultered food
I used to work in a food production factory here in the US, and we were inspected by the FDA annually. There were two things I always found surprising. #1: I feel like the inspection done by the FDA is not thorough enough, meaning that things swept under the rug by management could easily be overlooked. #2: The hourly employees in my plant, especially those with extensive tenure, saw all the bull$hit that management pulled and corners that were cut. Yet when the FDA came in, there were things that got swept under the rug and the FDA inspectors missed things happening right under their noses. In addition, management followed the inspector around the facility everywhere they went, to make sure us hourly employees remained silent. When an FDA inspector did ask an hourly employee questions, management was right there ready to give us a stern look if we were about to say anything that stepped out of line, even if it was the truth. You can bet your @ss that future employment and promotions within the company were automatically off the table if you spoke up. It makes me wonder if this happens in the place I worked at before, then it must be happening all over the country. We really DON'T know what's going on inside of our food production facilities, and we don't know exactly how our food is handled, or what exactly is put in it. Bottom line, I will never trust the FDA, and if I can't trust the FDA then I don't trust the government either.
I worked in preclinical pharmaceutical research and I can tell you the same thing happens there. We were ALWAYS briefed before the FDA or other agencies came to inspect. Yes, the inspections were ALWAYS announced beforehand. Management would tell us NOT to talk to the inspectors, and if the inspectors asked us a question we were to refer them to management. I am 100% sure that the FDA and other agencies were aware of this charade; it was only done so that everyone could say that they were in compliance with the law.
Because of my experience and knowing what goes on behind the scenes I am very conservative as to what I put in my body pharmaceutical-wise. I did not and will not get any of the COVID vaccines for that reason.
Another scary thing to consider, that kind of employment bullying apparently happens in the medical field too. Roommate worked at a major hospital chain across town for a few years before deciding to go back to the fast food place he'd left prior to the hospital, I'd asked him about it and he said he should've known the after interview application paperwork was the first red flag. To paraphrase him it said 'trying to start or join a union is grounds for immediate termination ontop of a strangely specific NDA', he went on to explain that despite working the 24/7 cafeteria they were only inspected biannually and that management would always shuffle schedules around so their most quiet and loyal employees would be the only ones working that day. I'm no medical professional, but the most concerning detail he brought up to me about why he quit, was that the 'sharps bin' was moved into the kitchen but opposite of the open hallway leading into the kitchen; one of those biohazard boxes to toss bloody tools or contaminated dishware into, was not 15 feet away from the stove tops, yet to put something filthy into it you had to carry it through the active kitchen. I laughed it off until he shown me a snapshot he took while filling in for a graveyard shift, but when I asked him for more he just told me "there's reasons every position below management is a revolving door" and hasn't spoken about it since, at least he's found mundane joy in being a cashier again.
We're in this boat because people don't speak up...... 😭. What else are you quiet about? Probably alot
@@theresemalmberg955 what kind of stuff/mishandling did you see???
@Therese Malmberg you shop at Walmart you really don't care
More needs to be done about this. Hold company’s and individuals accountable. Jail time and extremely high fines are in order.
Close the slaughterhouse that had CHILDREN cleaning!
They execute the CEOs of food fraudster corporations in China. Just saying.
@Lee Roland Sounds like a lot of executions going on.
@Lee Roland Could care less. The US government is nothing but a uniparty at present. Same coin two sides.
@Lee Roland It's too late.
If you read labels carefully you can sometimes detect fake foods. For example at a lot of dollar stores still have packages of “Parmesan style cheese“ it doesn’t contain any real Parmesan and they say it right in the ingredients less. It’s all in how they word it. For example most cookies and candy labeled “chocolatey” or “fudge”, Likely contain 2% or less actual cocoa or chocolate. I learned that from working on a documentary about the growing harvesting and processing of cacao, the cocoa bean
Exactly. We have to flip the package over and read the list of ingredients. If I see sugar in any form, I put it back on the shelf. If I see complex scientific names for chemicals, I google it on my phone. I try to shop the perimeter of the store only, quit eating processed foods, and cook everything. There are so many chemicals in our foods. And we need more inspectors for sure.
What is the name of the documentary? Sounds interesting
Peanut butter "spread" is another one
@@QuantumNoir Grape "drink" too
Yeah, we have a lot of those in Europe because calling things what they aren't is fraud but saying they're a substitution is legit. So we have natural ingredient "flavour" treats. We have place of of origin "style" foods. They're even talking about changing how the word "milk" is used for anything that doesn't come out of the mammaries of a mammal because almonds and oats don't lactate. So expect "oat based milk style drink" to be a thing. A big news story recently is that the company that makes Toblerone is having to change their packaging because they no longer exclusively manufacture their chocolate in Switzerland so they cannot use the Swiss Alps on their packaging or any other image that might mislead people into thinking it is of Swiss origin.
I’m 61 years old and I never took what I ate seriously, till I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes 6 months ago. I am now becoming educated on food content, food labels and the fake (even deadly) additives that are in nearly everything. I recently changed deodorant because of the aluminum and other additives in my once chosen brand. It’s incredibly difficult to eat a healthy low carb, low / no sugar diet. The additives, chemicals and overly processed add ins make eating healthy nearly impossible. No wonder diabetes is on the rise as it is.
In my case I’m responsible for my situation, I took what I ate for granted, steered away from exercise and gained weight. I’m now taking control and am on my way to reversing my Type 2 Diabetes.
Eat mainly whole foods. It's not that difficult
Growing your own food and eating mostly unprocessed food from scratch is the best. Unfortunately it's also a luxury to have a garden and the time to cook for oneself. But it is what brings me the most satisfaction in life. I wish everyone who wanted could garden. It changed my life.
@@daggettbeaver242for people who never learn to cook it is. I have friends who have never learned and they buy premade or order doordash almost everyday. It's wild.
Good for you for taking charge of your health!! So sad they are allowed to put fake stuffs in our food and not label it, we have to be the watchdogs of what we put into our bodies…don’t eat processed foods not worth your life…..
For people with food allergies, this could potentially be a very serious problem. Even at the best of times, you do not know where you may find an allergen.
Thanks for your comment - food fraud not only hurts our wallets, but also health & safety - here's how to avoid it 💫 🔎
All it can take is one micro gram of a nut, type of fruit, vegetable, shellings from grain,or even animal proteins to trigger an allergy
Gee, thanks for that, genius. Got any other tips that Captain Obvious dropped off, for us?
@@jf8138 you dont have to be rude. Wr are all agreeing on what outcome this food Fraud can have
Well the fact that people outside the US commonly get sick eating anything in the US proves the food here isn't great.
When I commit a crime, I go to jail. When corporations commit crimes, they pay a fine as a cost of doing business. This has to change. If you don’t play by the rules, you don’t get to do business.
Ban farm subsidies. Convince gov to let everyone that wants use an acre of free tax free land to grow their own food/ live on.
Poisoning the food supply is supervillain level evil, it's crazy, and it's crazy we don't care more.
Just How Do We Trust The FDA To Do Right By Us? They Have Approved MANY Things That We Should NOT Consume!!!
Every corporation, every govt agency, every business, supermarket/Chain foodstore, every farmer, every person involved must be held accountable and made to pay damages to the consumer.
the complete utter opposite will happen. the criminals will make even more money and be promoted. understand that this is a hell realm we are in.
This is happening every where. Even in India, recently a food testing lab released a study report saying that 90% of the honey sold in market is actually not honey at all. It's adulterated with Corn syrup and it's undetectable unless you are doing testing in really high end labs. Most of well known brands were found to be doing this. There seems to be no limit to greed.
As a beekeeper I am familiar with this. It puts local beekeepers at a severe disadvantage price wise.
I just looked up "How to test real honey" and the first video gave me some simple tests. No need for high end labs, especially if it is adulterated with corn syrup.
“Even in India” really got me😂 shouldnt you be more concerned about food safety than food fraud?
@@jackliu1579 be concerned about yourself eating crap . Indians eat cooked food everyday, unlike frozen food all the time. Even street food at roadsides are safer than your frozen restaurant food or stale food served to you guys without knowing anything.
@@jackliu1579 After you the bat soup guy?
As someone with an anaphylactic food allergy, this is terrifying. Should even a small amount of the subject food be not disclosed, I could be in a life-threatening situation. I'm reminded to check the labels of even "safe" foods, as the manufacturers' formulae can change over time, and I do call manufacturers at times for clarity. But that is not enough to keep people like me safe according to this report. One more existential threat in my life.... Thanks, FDA!
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Same!
Those companies will lie through their teeth to make a profit off of you. They don't care and are protected by the FDA.
@@Blurp3 Everywhere except the United States has high food standards and will not allow 90% of American "food" products into their countries. Corruption, bribery and political involvement are our main problem in America.
And you're not even vegan lol. Imagine being vegan. Have to check even more
@@godjhaka7376 well vegan won't die from accidentally eating something they're not supposed to
If FDA is not going to do amything, eliminate it.
Are we gonna talk about how horribly harmful and toxic seed oils and vegetable oils are?
I can’t believe a country ran by unregulated corporations who care more about money than human life who only ever get slaps on the wrists would do something like this. And here I thought they loved me! 😢
They don't give a F*** about us -2pac
"They don't really care about us" - Michael Jackson
I think they call this capitalism!
@@rayRay-pw6gz All isms have flaws. Look at China. A communist country that allows fake foods to be sold at high levels to their people.
They love your money.
Would have been helpful if more brands were named. For instance I've heard quite a lot about fake olive oil but people seem to be hesitant to name the brands.
Liability. Naming names sets up lawsuits!
@@BluePatriotWinner how if it was proven through testing first?
@Nicole
People can't afford to fight in court. It's not about proving them wrong. It's about how much it will cost to do so.
Olive oil in cold will be like milky honey. Real olive oil. I buy only from asia Shop
@@ashleynikolenko of course real olive oil is more expensive but I've seen news clips where they said some brands that were pricier tested as fake as well.
If your company commits fraud, all the excutives should go to jail and the company should be broken up for sale. We need real consequences, but our government is owned by the rich, so we are pretty much screwed.
Either grow your own food, or you have accepted to eat what others decide you will eat. Theres no two ways. No inspection, no regulation, no deterrents.
When we live in a society that is more concerned with making money than being kind to each other this is what happens it's inevitable
Well that’s been going on before Christ. Food fraud was a problem in the Roman Empire
@@ThanosWasActuallyTheGoodGuyhuh?
My mom almost died from an allergic reaction because of the blending B.S. of spices!! We have always had to be careful due to her allergies. The "Pure cinnamon" she put on her morning toast (as she had for years) was anything BUT pure!!! It caused anaphylaxis and her tongue swelled up so much they had to do an emergency tracheostomy to save her life. The company had 'changed their formula'... fillers had been added. We had to grind our own after that.
Lord have mercy
Omg! I'm glad she's ok. What a horrible experience!! Do you know what brand of cinnamon it was that caused it? Yikes!
@@amandamichelle9426 right, let us know. Save a life lol
You need to buy Ceylon Cinnamon, a TRUE cinnamon. Many other are NOT cinnamon and are taken from other parts of the plant. I get my cinnamon on line from Penzy's Spices. I don't have allergies and admit I will use Penzy's Saigon Cinnamon in holiday baking because I use so much of it and the Ceylon is pretty expensive. There are no additives added to any of their products so I have not had any issued giving my baking to people.
R.I.P 🥶
I think it was a good thing when France passed an international labeling rule, that sparkling white wine made outside of the champagne region of France cannot be called “champagne“. I wish they would do that with more things. Just the other day I was in the spice and herb section in a supermarket. There were eight different brands of “herbs de Provence”, yet all of them said they were grown or packaged in places like New Jersey, California, and Texas. If the herbs are not actually from the Provence region of France, how can they be called that?
The video started with a blurred out bottle of Hennessy XO implying it was 'fake' (Cognac made in France - that is regulated just like 'Champagne'). I was scratching my head - and they never showed or brought anything up related to it in the video. So... why did they show that bottle.. just some stock footage to fill time?
Shameful. Blatant evil controlling the food supply. Poisoning its own “people”… we aren’t even consider human. We are cattle to them.
As a European, I had no conscience of all this until some American friends came visit us. In 15 days, they told me, they had eaten everything they wanted and drunk everything they wished and still lost weight. I guess the walking might have been a factor too, but mostly is about food quality.
Everything in USA is full of unnecessary sugar! It’s frustrating to no end
1000%, I spent time in Europe when I was in the army, took a couple of weeks for my taste to adjust and everything including McDonald’s tasted better, and I felt better. When I got back to the US I couldn’t eat food here for months unless I made it.
@@harrisonfitzpatrick4542 and people think I’m picky because I refuse to eat premade foods. I refuse to feed them to my children too. I grew up on real foods and in my 29 years of life i still can’t eat the BS here. It tastes so gross and plastic like.
@@geofferypmeyers It's definitely mostly due to sweeteners. I have to buy "diet" foods now to avoid added sugar in stuff that doesn't need it. The carb amount matters as well. Preservatives and fillers are somewhat of an issue but not like sugar. We could be more like 1950s Americans if we didn't have the sweeteners and added a simple short exercise routine every day.
They're intentionally poisoning us.
Don't worry, it's coming your way now.
Soon enough you'll have the 15 minute cities, bugs for dinner, and a social credit score to go with it all!!
I'm blessed to have a mother that cooked all our meals with healthy ingredients growing up and educated us about all the poison on store shelves. I hope I'm wrong, but nothing will be done to eliminate food fraud. The government sold out to the highest bidder long ago.
Yes and far too many don't give it the priority it deserves..we should all be livid. I keep telling my grnddghtrs one day they'll be so glad I am the way I am.
@@crazyratlady3438
Too addicted to their phones to realize the depth of the con all around them.
That's because the highest bidder learned to modify food in such a way that it eliminates the need to care for a large swath of this next generation's aging population. Ever wonder why today's 55-65 year olds are way more busted up than their 75-85 year old parents?
@@michaeledwards2251 It's not phones they're addicted to (phones are the reason we're all finding out and they cant stop us) it's the literal, actual, lab modified foods.
Did you know there's a yeast that can turn sugar into actual opiates? Yep, and guess where that "discovery" was engineered?
True, too true.
Thanks for putting this information in a book that is readily available. Journalists like you are good for society. Thank you! As soon as I saw this, I ordered your book (you should have put a plug in for it) in paperback, so I can share it with my family.
It’s interesting how the FDA passes the buck or downplays the difficulty of enforcing its own rules and mandates of protecting the consumers. Seems to me that these companies must be paying high ranking officials under the table to look the other way. This is inexcusable. But given how everything related to our world and economy is a lie, can anyone actually say they are surprised? It’s shameful and pathetic but it just proves that these agencies and corporations only care about one thing: profits at any costs.
As someone who cannot eat lots of US American foods because they make me sick...this is just scary. If I eat the wrong thing, I get sharp pains so bad I cannot move, high fevers, and I vomit a lot. It's not a freaking joke.
It's SO expensive trying to buy food without artificial dyes, chemicals and pesticides, or too many processed ingredients. I literally would be so broke if my family wasn't there to help me afford food that just...won't make me ill.
I have been living in the US for 25 years. I mostly buy unprocessed food and cook it. The quaity is excellent.
where are you from originally? i always hear about the culture shock when it comes to our food from foreigners... how everything tastes sweet and often things taste like plastic. i feel like us americans get slammed a lot for it, but what choice do we have? these are the foods our government provides to us. even seeds for growing our own food are hard to find non gmo and organic thanks to the whole monsanto controversy, and the government makes it very very hard for farmers to give natural food to community. many permits, inspections, and hoops to jump through and they will shut you down and fine your for any slip in violation.
So what do you eat? Where do you buy the ingredients?
A lot of our food is sprayed with chemicals. 😢
Is it in anyway possible that you start a vegetable garden? I rent a little piece of land and grow a lot of my own vegetables and herbs. My health has become better.
Welcome to America. No surprises there. I travel a lot and everything tastes differently in other countries. I mean EVERYTHING. People from some places in Europe come here and are disgusted by the food. It used to be weird to me until I really got out there. This place only care about profits and nothing else. We sit here and still accept it even though we know.
Why do Europeans get disgusted?
@@jaycho6747 the taste of some of our foods is not organic or nutritious. Too much sugar! Too much salt! Fake additives! Dangerous additives! Just plain unhealthy, if you're not used to it. Have you ever gone on a healthy eating path for a few months and slipped up by eating junk? Then, you have diarrhea and other stomach issues? This happens to people that consume crap suddenly as it is a shock to the system. We don't really care what we are feeding our people in the US. As long as it turns a profit and looks/sounds good.
*huddles around my biscuits and gravy* Surely you don't mean EVERYTHING. 🥺
Other than western Europe (for now), most of these other countries that have a norm of organic produce and meats have far more poverty and lower standards of living than the US. It's just a shame such a wealthy country like the US has such garbage food available.
Semitropical and tropical environments make it easy to grow food without even trying. In the bottom half of Mexico, you can drop seeds on the ground and a tree or plant will pop up on its own, without caretaking. I've heard it's like this in other countries like the former British colony islands and most of Latin America.
Still, the quality of life is impacted by other factors other than food.
@@IntrospectiveHousewife spot on! Well said!
My high school Biology teacher taught us to avoid trans fats. Even if the label says 0% trans fat, look out for any type of "hydrogenated oil" in the ingredients. (I've been out of high school for nearly a decade, so I don't remember how that loophole works.) Just thought I'd share my bit of knowledge.
A good rule of thump is that Corporations behave like psychopaths.
food fraud is basically food tampering or even food terrorism and should be punished as such.
Yes it absolutely should. It is irrefutably criminal
Food *terrorism* , really? Using extreme words doesn't make you more right :) You we're already right in that it's bad - no need to label everything you don't like as "terrorism" haha (and yes again, I do agree with you - food fraud is very bad)
@@LeeRoland Lord, give me strength...they would've had to close that location THAT DAY. Always keep bail money...
@@foxtrotunit1269No, he is right. It is a form of warfare. Not merely greed.
I notice this every time I travel outside of America. The food is nothing like it is in the states. I found myself feeling lighter eating in Europe.
I think the Mediterranean counties have healthier diets in general. More importantly, when I travel in Europe, I walked a lot more since driving for me is difficult. Taking Metro, Subway, tubes made you walk more, especially up/ down the stairs! Additionally, walking let's me see more things than sitting in group tour bus.
EU food safety standards are higher than in US, which typically takes a 'self-regulation' strategy like with meat processors.
It's more likely it tasted different to you because it was unadulterated.
its amazing how much healthier everything is when you don't pump it full of high fructose corn syrup.
Yeah, I noticed this too. We are not a nation of citizens, we're a nation of consumers. Ultimately expendable
still the food in europe is heavily processed,germany has crazy food problem in my opinion
Strange how big corporations are allowed to get away with fake food.
I bought an ice cream cone at Walgreens on an extremely hot day. I thought: This will melt by the time I get home; I need to eat it right away. In spite of the extreme heat, the ice cream did not melt. It did not taste like ice cream. I read the label, which said it was frozen dairy dessert. They charge ice cream prices for fake ice cream.
Simple new law. Whoever sells it in your country, is responsible. They are the ones overseeing the purchase. Manditory 5 years in prison, with minimum(not maximum) fine of 10,000,000.
This goes to the president of the company automatically, and then to whomever after.
Guarantee you see a big decrease with the issue. 12:54
I worked in commercial art making product labels and packaging for a lot of items you find in the grocery stores - whenever I walk into a store, I think to myself "look at all the pretty trash" = by far, that 4+ color label screaming "Buy me!" far outweighs the value of the food contents and that pretty package you throw away in the garbage - is literally 60-85% of the label price. - We even had a wine distributor have us make up new wine labels (no, it wasn't for a new brand of wine) but a cheap one that wasn't selling, so they had us make up fancy new labels to put on the SAME product, for 4-5x above its original price. It's all a scam folks. Always buy generic when you can.
Sometimes generic is truly worse though. Like Target store brand mozzarella- it’s definitely not 100% genuine mozzarella and tastes far worse than the other brands of mozz that Target sells
But overall I hear you and appreciate what you’re saying!
@@SamIndecisive Store brands aren't truly generic... I always read the listed ingredients and sell/good by dates - and always question "iffy" wording on the labels that are designed to misdirect.
Good point! All that glitters is not gold!
@III Lol, its a mad world.
We can't always avoid buying these products. Might as well use your back yard for gardening (instead of just wasting that space for lawn) and produce your own to avoid dependence on grocery store and worry about fake food and stuff they put on it. It not only serves the purpose of land use - it also saves you money and health in the long run too!
Agreed. If it weren’t for zoning and HOA craziness, a lot of suburbanites could have garden yards and their own chickens.
I read a very interesting statistic a couple days ago, if one in three households in the US raised their own chickens, there would be no factory farm industry for eggs. Its past time for people to go back to creating/ gathering as much of their own food as possible.
@ericpmoss A friend of mine lived in an HOA and raised her food in flowerpot on her deck. She had corn, beans, tomatoes, Brussel sprouts, along with her flowers to make it astheticly pleasing. The flowers were edible or could be made into tea. If they have sliding glass doors or can buy grow lights, they can raise their own food inside, out of HOA eyes.
only problem is the ground/soil is now chemically jacked, laws against having chickens/animals unless you a farmer then they control how you feed cause you need money to farm. so just have to cut back eating all the time fast, hope for the best
@@wesleyblueislandkid469 There's a natural way to treat chemically treated soil. It's called phytoremediation. There are good number of plants that are good at absorbing and accumulating toxins in their roots, stems and leaves. You can pull them out dispose eventually.
No wonder people who go to other countries on vacation say the food over there tastes great and they lose weight. Then they come back home and get sickly. :( America should be better than this.
Based on what? We have a track record of being awful.
A few months ago, bought a jar of honey. Husband opened it and though he has somewhat muted taste and smell senses, he knew straight away that wasn't honey. I tasted a bit, and it was sugar syrup. No resemblance to honey 'at all!'
Now we buy raw honey online from beekeepers.
I've noticed over the months that more fresh produce is creeping into my shopping basket as I find reasons to reject more processed.
Now I'm going to be making an effort to eliminate modified starch, which I hadn't realised was creeping up the ingredient list in various sauces I was using. Looks like we have to be thinking more of making ketchups from the living, kicking tomatoes - rather than relying on trust that manufacturers are doing it for us. That trust has been broken, and I'll be damned if I happily pay a weekly increase of £10 on my shopping basket costs (which is what it has been for the past month!) for rubbish ingredients that's nothing but second rate fillers of disputable quality and edibility.
I think that wherever we are in the world, we need to show that that trust 'is' broken and we should be buying much more fresher food. Brands have to learn the hard way, through our neglect, because these videos made public don't seem to be stopping them!
Unless it is labeled “raw” preferably local (to help allergies) honey, the good enzymes are killed in pasteurisation and it is turned into sugar water.
@@HDPersonal777 Local honey has not been proven to help allergies in any capacity, unfortunately. Don't fall for a food scam thats not covered in this video
'TRUTH: In theory, eating local honey would help your body build immunity to local pollen. But the pollen collected by bees is different from the pollen that triggers most seasonal allergies.1,2 So far, there is no evidence that eating honey builds immunity to allergies.5,6 But it does make for a delicious sugar substitute in that next cup of coffee.'
My grandpa always says "we live in the age of deceit and substitution"
Oh son, he was talking about marrying your grandma
He's correct. Capitalism would work so well if it wasn't for corrupt and just plain evil people.
@Pastramiklick... don't forget about Karenism, trolling, lack of empathy, corruption, and CEOs getting free passes to do whatever they like! 💪😎✌️
#Murica
@@user-lo2rf5ly4e lol
5 replies, only 2 visible. What were the 3 taboo comments? I see "B's" comment about your grandma and your "lol" response
Humanity suffers from a lack of integrity and an abundance of greed.
Exchanging real ingredients for cheaper substitutes is what "Food Scientists" are trained to do. For example, some fast food honey packets (for biscuits) are a bit of honey mixed with corn syrup.
This is probably one of the most important journalism CNBC has ever done.
When I was in Italy, everything was proudly local and made in Italy. In my country, Guatemala, everything (except for big machines and cars) is made and grown in Guatemala. The coffee is right from my grandpa's land, or if I'm in a other area, from a locals yard. It is phenomenal. Want cheese? Tomatoes? The lady down the street has cows, or if you live in the City, there's small towns an hour away that grow food. The country is rapidly growing but the food is delicious, local, and seasonal.
That's amazing
Guatemala = Tribe of Zebulon
@@jephtha7267You are awake.
The US is trying to stop the food being local and support big ag. That adulterates food
@Lee Roland you can go legally
This is part of the reason it was so questionable why our government suddenly "cared" so much for our health these last few years. So much cancer and metabolic problems such as diabetes could be prevented if the FDA wasn't so corrupted.
Well and if the money grubbing owners of the food corporations didn't try every cheap trick in the book just to make more profit.
It's more likely that Congress has been corrupted by Corporate America. Any time you hear a politician talk about deregulating an industry and/or cutting funding for regulatory agencies, you can bet he/she was bought and paid for.
You are right about that, eating a meat based diet goes a long way to treat cancers and stop diabetes in its tracks. Type 1s need less meds, type 2 may need none.
To be fair, they only "cared" because businesses needed us to keep working and keep buying. It was about stock portfolios, not altruism.
People with the right knowledge and skills rotate in and out of any particular department, based on the political party in power and their own desires. Most of them alternate with working in the industry they're supposed to be regulating when they're working for the government.
People with their finger in the pie.
Most of our Congressional reps and senators own stocks in military defense contractors, too, which is very likely why the defense budget is so high.
Countries that don't have these problems pay their public servants VERY well. HIGH incomes. Removes the itch to accept a little something on the side. When the U.S. is willing to do that, the problem will get much better.
Spanish here. The darker the green color of the olive oil is, the more quality it has (at least at the EU, it is compulsory to indicate whether the olive oil comes from a mixture of various oils or if it doesn't). An extra virgin olive oil, at least in Spain, NEVER comes from different oils, even less from different countries!!
I like Spain! Very nice food there and lovely people, in every region.
Some American foods are not allowed in the EU.
very informative video thank you I learn alot
I always find it extremely funny when the government say they care about the people yet they never do anything that’s impactful for the people safety.
Do the opposite of what the government suggests you do.
They literally don’t want you to live too long to take too much social security
The government is the first accomplices hiding the truth from the people
just look at the toxic cloud spreading from Ohio.
You voted for small government
My tip for my American friends when it comes to getting Parmesan cheese: look for the Protected Designation of Origin seal in the package - this is for us Europeans a sign that this is legit Parmesan cheese that comply with a strict set of rules (production process and correct raw ingredients), ensuring that it's the genuine stuff. Granted, even here in Europe there is a big problem with food fraud, but there are at least ways set by the European Union to deal with these issues. It's outrageous that U.S. consumers are being blatantly scammed by food companies like this.
theres also many great and safe parmesan replacement, cheaper versions one can use like on pizza or in dishes where one would hesitate to use the real stuff( I like Parmesan and could have it on most of stuff, in restaurant its always hard task to tell waiter to stop adding it), one I know about is from Czechia I think from Gran Moravia, its of course EU compliant so its not named parmesan but its still quality hard cheese of similar type and correctly labeled so one knows what he's using.
What about label/seal fraud?
Nonsense. Labels are meaningless. Everyone in the industry knows that the only way any chicanery would be exposed would be by chemical testing. The average individual doesn't exactly have a scientific test kit to analyze their food products, lol! 😂🤣😂
Buy fresh potatoes, fruits, meat, and vegetables. Otherwise, just ASSUME it's all filler, jank, and bool sheet. Especially "spices".
nah, there’s no way you’re talking after y’all ate horse meat 💀
Most people have never actually tasted real Parm. It’s one of the most counterfeited foods out there.
Reminds me of the reports in China selling plastic rice or “glueing” cheaper cuts of meat to simulate more expensive ones.
China wishes they were as devious as us.
They even have fake whole eggs in China
As an Australian who lived in the USA for over a decade, has worked in the food industry for eight years, has specific dietary requirements (gluten intolerance) & just recently received my food handling & safety certificate. I'm aware that "food fraud" happens everywhere, because of the fact that Australia has very strict food standards & regulations compared to the USA. Australia has much less of a problem. In ranking of food quality Australia is eighth place (top non-European country) & the USA is twenty first.
We aren't "tricked," this is the food they make available to us. They lie, but this is what is available. Wish we all had the time and knowledge to make it all ourselves. These evil corporations should not be getting a way with this.
100%
for families like mine stuck living in an apartment because we can't afford to buy a home, growing our own food isn't an option either. our unit is in a completely shaded area, in an already cloudy/overcast state. i can't even keep houseplants alive from how little sunshine we get. it's unfortunate, but i do what i can in other areas. we forage for mushrooms in the fall and pick berries when we can as well, keep them in the freezer or dehydrate them. i've also learned that artificial vanilla is literally made from plastic, so i've started to make my own. it's very easy, a child could even do it.
@@lettus143 Artificial vanilla is synthetic, but it is the same molecule that gives normal vanilla most of its taste. So while it is a different product, it is literally the same substance. So whether it is made from wood pulp (lignin), clove oils (eugenol), or petrochemical sources (guaiacol), the last being what is done today, there is no real difference.
Vanilla extract just has a variety of other chemicals that give it a slightly more rounded taste in non cooked goods especially.
So of all the "artificial" foods, that's one I wouldn't worry about.
this video is to white wash FDA
Growing food is one of the easiest things a kid can do and is common sense for like most 5yr olds, if they have suitable land sun water and in the growing season.
Convince gov to let everyone that wants use an acre of free tax free land to grow their own food and live on. Ban farm subsidies.
Food forest. Rain collection. Grey water system. Automatic watering system.
Ban public school.
Just another reason I love being alive on this wonderful planet, surrounded by such caring thoughtful people 😊 it’s truly good to know that these food companies care so much about our health!
Yeah I know that's why I eat whatever I want we never know whats the real thing so tired of humans
I guess you didn't watch the video because if you did you would have learned that all these food companies are putting in wood filler and the FDA allows for 90% of the food they process to be other by-products other than what they put on the label. Your coming is absolutely the antithesis of what is actually happening.
Exactly. Just like those unelected swine at the World Economic Forum - so "concerned" about humanity. Listen to what they have to say. These are people with full-time pro chefs cooking for them in their mansions.
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Thanks for the information
Thanks SO very much for your knowledge facts . Thanks for SHARING 😊😊😊😊😊😊
Wished we had an agency that would inspect our food and drugs and evaluate these companies/corporations and close them down or fine them billions for violations.
Republicons won't fund it...
Oh wait...
We all wish so... someday it will start working.. maybe...
They’re too busy promoting and shilling for vax safety to check the purity and safety of our foods.
JUST DONT BUY IT BUT AMERICANS ARE LAZY, STOP WATCHING STUPID T.V. I WAS LUCKY BACK IN MY NATIVE AQUITAINE WHERE WE ATE AND GREW OUR FOOD AND HERBALS, 100 + IS NORNAL. MONSANTO AND CRONIES TO PRISON, GOD BLRSS
The first offense should be a LARGE fine/lawsuit second should mean closure of the facility. There should be a zero tolerance for this kind of mess and not just with food products but also products that come into contact with our bodies.
You want zero tolerance but also want the facility shutting down to be the _second_ step?
One to look out for, Arizona lemonade. They are counterfeit. Tap water and grape jelly
For over 50 years I've been saying that we've been getting ripped off for money not just the products we believe we are getting , THNKXZ to corporate owners FDA and the rest of them involved in this
IF corporations are people then the boards should face jail times for these types of crimes.
Law and order egalitarian society is oblivious to the litany of legal crimes and genocidal atrocities/ The supply is the demand/ Corporations are federally licensed drug cartels/ Idolaters, hoarders of monetary wealth and soulless people of the lie are dependent on constitutional rights for the reinforcement of totalitarian state control/
So they just hire Patsy scapegoats.... Good idea
Corporations aren't people period.
The very point of incorporation is the absolution of legal responsibility.
all these companies should have class action lawsuits against them. and also the administration that is supposed to be protecting us from this. !
Even more food wasted! Some products should just be not able to sell and just STOP producing anything when they are caught with fraud and adulterated food.
This is humongous! I am appalled at the person downplaying food fraud as "there are more important issues than food fraud"... We are literally INGESTING these items and they directly affect our health, and in the long run, our life. How can you dismiss such a critical issue like that?? And can we just realize that not only healthy adults but kids, seniors, immunocompromised and sick people are also ingesting these foods? This needs to be dealt with strictly, and with harsh sentences given for the guilty party.
Go back and listen to the video again. He said, "There's plenty of things we for us to worry about in the world, today, and food fraud SHOULD NOT be one of them." Not that there are more important issues than food fraud. 12:24
The ones who are supposedly policing this stuff are just as guilty in my opinion, they take bribes n turn a blind eye to stuff alot of the time🤔😒, I try to buy fresh produce as much as I can, it may cost more but I'd rather live n be skint than die with money in my account!🤔😁✌️
Wouldn't be so many sick and immune compromised if we weren't investing such crap all our lives.
@@crazyratlady3438 I take it you meant ingesting!🤔😁💜✌️
Parties... those investors wanting massive $$$ returns
Not only in USA, also in Canada… As a Brazilian living in Vancouver, during High School, I found food to be the hardest part of adapting… Fresh food was rare and expensive, while fake and fast-food abundant. It was all artificial, full with sugar, flour, fat… I gained 12 kg
This kind of food is why Mexicans now have the same overweight and obesity numbers as the US. Diabetes is endemic here.
@@sidstovell2177 is it because of coca cola/sugary drinks.. i saw a video of it
How on Earth is fresh food rare in Canada?? LOL you can literally go to a grocery store and buy fruits and vegetables to cook something for the week at cheaper price per meal that it would cost you to go to McDonald's... fast-food chains are all over the world doesn't mean you need to go to them, so this just sounds ridiculous LOL sounds more like you're making excuses for the fact that you're choosing to go to these "abundant" fast food chains instead of cooking healthy food for yourself... also Vancouver out of anywhere in Canada has the most healthy option food places that exist.... West Coast places in general, even in the US there is a distinction between more proponent healthy living in California versus New York city
It's not too crazy if you hit up a Farmer's Market which are plentiful throughout BC, many farms also sell direct to consumer. Going to any big box grocery store and fresh food is over priced ;but that's the price of convenience.
All countries in the world have food fraud problems.
Instead of going after fraud the FDA goes after Amish farmers.
3:18 - Great idea to illustrate the pure great stuff with being actively clouded with chemical vapors.
She never said which olive oil is worse, she just explained both of them and moved on
I suggest you review the start of the video : note how the person clothes and lighting match
Maybe just bring a giant magnifying glass with you so you can determine the origin
it's impossible to tell the difference.
#2 sounds like California Olive Ranch. The prices are usually good clues, meaning the higher priced are the 100% olive oil. In general we should always buy the more expensive food choices as realistically real food should be expensive (based on inflation). There are articles online that list the real olive oil companies.
@@user-ry2qs7xf9k don't be stupid. Stop it.
Pour olive oil on a shiny metal tray, look at the oil reflecting sunlight, if it looks like a purple/magenta oil slick then the olive oil is good and real
The FDA has been defunded since the Reagan years and has been relegated to an advisory agency having now to ask food corporations for monetary assistance.
Soo many lies built into one sentence lmaooo. Stop looking for partisan causes and solutions. The FDA is staffed by former corporate employees who bring with them the network effects of a crony click, the laws are passed by lobbyists and activists whose laws in one way or another are made to benefit the corporations sponsoring them. More money to a broken system won't work.... It'll make those proposing it more popular and powerful but it won't fix anything. Enough.
Yeah Reagan also defunded mental health care. What a hero.
"Revolving door"
How stupid and greedy are consumers?
wow and i through America was a developed rich country
Most grocery stores, even department stores like shoppers south, and from the dollar store jack up the price shop at the dollar store
People laugh and scoff at vegans, but they’re clearly onto something. Our best and healthiest bet is to eat food that grows straight from the ground and isn’t altered
But even that is tough with all the chemicals. Lord help us
All forms of fraud should be punished with jail time.
yeah those 5k$ and 6 month probation for that fake cheese guy was just a bad joke!
The fact that this is known but nothing is done about it and let it happen, scares me
@@Sounds_from_Studio_Be so how do we cut off eating process food altogether? Grow our own food?
@@freshevans exactly... learn how to do everything from scratch!!
@freshevans5924 No you don't have to grow your own. Just use whole food ingredients and learn how to prep and cook a bit. Very very simple if you're motivated enough!
It is a good idea to eat less processed food, eventually eliminate them altogether. The trashfood has taken over the globe and now with awareness we can fight back. The way to fight back is by choosing health or work (researching, building relationships, etc.) over convenience.
@@ianstuart5660 yeah but what do you consider "processed" food? Me and you can have a completely different definition for it. My thought of processed food is heavily processed foods and I semi consider baking anything as heavily processing food, even if you are the one baking regardless if you're using "clean" ingredients. If you mean "stop eating street food and McDonald's" then I'll have you know friend that I have not had a single fast food "food" since 2015 or 16.
But I do still have cheese, yogurt, sausages, sourdough bread, butter and the like, which as you know are processed foods. So when you say "cut out processed foods", which ones? Also keep in mind that olive oil is processed food and so is any other oil.
It is the perfect marriage:”the FDA & the pharmaceutical Industry”!!!!!!
Although it isn't full proof, i dont buy imported foods. I buy raw produce and proteins and prepare my food myself. It also tastes better.
Eat seasonal fruits, veggies, buy local and get information on domestic producers and their products is the first step. In Germany we used to have strict food safety measures , good comsumer protection and strong , informed consumers organizations. Unfortunately now more companies are copying the American way….
Thank you for this video .
you don't need other people to know real food.
If you can find the time, or rope someone into the household to do it for you:
From Scratch cooking helps to avoid the majority of altered food stuffs.
It also reduces the number of steps between harvest and you, so the less chances of alteration.
Not a perfect solution, unless you want to grind your own grains and milk your own cows, but better then the labels!
In the Netherlands our regulations are very strict. You can't just produce something en sell it to people. And i think it's better that you eat local, and seasonal product. Not food made in factory's.
Sadly, there is such a "hustle" culture in America, that many people do not take the time to make these efforts. Moreover, many Americans are somewhat shamed into asking too many and/or particular questions.
Domestic workers (who _do_ [make such efforts] and take such tasks/job seriously), AKA stay-at-home humans, are often frowned upon in USA; especially in some cultures/areas. Further, many who wish to be/hold such a position, whose role/duties would include such duties, cannot afford to _and_ live comfortably.
It's all terrible.
Sad that the American way is filtering through to you.
This is why I switched to whole bean coffee actually. Apparently a lot of the preground coffees are guilty of adding fillers. Sometimes even literal dirt into into the coffee. *Cough*Maxwell House*cough* At least with the whole bean I know that the rate of fillers being added is soooooo much less if not none. Its infuriating to hear that some of the things that we've been eatting our entire lives aren't actually what they're labeled. They keep getting away with adulterating our food in the USA all for the sake of a dollar.
They were adding a bit of Maxwell's House back yard soil.
American capitalism at its finest!
Absolutely. I only buy whole beans!
Evil WEF cabals, FDA, WHO, UN.
Heads up to tjis video creators.
All this is happening while law enforcement is putting someone in jail for a joint😂😂😂😂
I know Brazil has its flaws, but one thing I'm proud about my country is ANVISA (our FDA). We are very strict about food regulations. We often see companies being severely punished for false advertising, we are obliged to report all ingredients on the package, main allergens, if it is transgenic, expiration date, how the info is displayd, written in which font, in a way that does not mislead the consumer, etc. It's not a perfect system, but it's very efficient.
The problem is, that we as consumers can't tell the difference between the genuine and fake product. Even experts can't - without proper lab tests. And because it's relatively hard to uncover food faking, it happens so much and goes on.
This is another issue that is mired in politics. One group wants no regulation and doesn't believe in science and the other group are called communists. So we the people pay the price rfor that. I always have a vegetable garden and use no pesticides. Sometimes I lose to some critters and so be it. It's so nice to pick a tomato and not have to worry about it being sprayed with stuff.
I can't grow enough to feed us for the year but I usually have a lot of tomatoes and green beans in the freezer.
I worked at an ice cream factory.. ice cream must contain 10% fat from cream, and shiping cream is expensive so we would buy butter fat from out of country not pure fat but 51% sugar so it don't count as a dairy product. Its all a shell game of skirting regulations.
Then we switched to calling it frozen dessert, and made it from cheep palm oil.
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"Frozen Dairy Dessert" is not ice cream, but is always clearly labeled on packages in that section.
A major problem is that most people do not read, including product labels.
For those of us _who do,_ and are pretty savvy, it's especially concerning that the information on the labels is *_incorrect/fraudulent._* 😡
@@BLESSFUL-Bliss cant use the word "dairy", unless its milk then its called ice milk.. read again its just frozen dessert.. comes in an ice cream container with pics that look like ice cream.. amd its not clearly labeled its little letters designed for you to miss. And your ice cream only means the 10% fat came from cream, can be butter fat, imported as a sugar product cuz its 51% sugar to avoid tariffs.
@@pamelawing5747 but but the seeds are fake they are GMO modified fake seeds
Lately, I've noticed that food doesn't taste like it did growing up. I figured it was me, or that the ingredients are different. Even candy doesn't taste the same. I hardly eat most of the food out there... Now I know why.
it's also almost like pallets change growing up
I remember when my country had an increase in flour prices. I overtoasted some bread and suddenly it smelt like burning plastic. Very scary.
@@luxursunsets It’s almost like you didn’t even watch the video
This information is a big part of why the near monopoly status of our food manufacturers is so dangerous… if there’s no competition, they have no reason to keep quality standards up.
In this video she conflates "best if used by" with an expiration date. "Best if used by" does NOT represent an expiration date. It represents the 'peak' of the foods 'quality': (taste, texture, etc) as determined by the company producing and selling the food product itself, NOT the safety to consume. Foods with "best if used by labels" do not have an expiration date, therefore it was false for her to say only one of the sampled olive oils has an expiration date. Neither of them did...
A label that says "Use by August 2024" however, IS an expiration date, about safety.
In short, "Best if used by" does NOT equal "Use by" in terms of food law
How is this even possible? In the European Union the managers of the companies selling these fakes would go to prison and the companies themselves would get millions of dollars' worth of fines. Not to mention the health hazard. Isn't there any Consumer Protection Authority in the US?
there was but America's whole schtick is corruption. so emphasis on was, now it's just a board of fat cats
Only financial penalties. Thems that be in power figure that financial penalties are the worst an entity can get. Yet, the number of charges, convictions and penalties imposed are so low that most companies will take their chances. The consumer cares about low prices and won't penalize a company with low prices, even if the company was convicted of fraud
Is there a EU FDA to monitor the guidelines?
It's easy with online stores such as Amazon, but one of my rules is never to buy food from anyone on Amazon or any online store.
Us Americans are fools, that's how
The US law was changed during 2020 to allow companies to change their recipes to substitute certain ingredients without having to change the labels. The excuse was do that if the supply chain was interrupted, the companies could continue making their product if they could get a substitute ingredient (the exception being top 8 allergens). As a person with allergies that are not top 8, this scared me a lot. Since then I've noticed prepared foods making me sick when, according to the label, there shouldn't be anything I'm allergic to. For example, Organic Simple Truth Chocolate chips make me so sick it feels like I'm dying from food poisoning. Other brands with the exact same list of ingredients I can eat by the bag full with no harm done. I'm also having problems finding a mayonnaise brand that doesn't make me sick even though I'm not allergic to anything in mayonnaise.
I grow my own herbs and I try to buy whole spices and grind them myself. It's harder to be tricked when you are looking at the whole original food.
this is completely absurd. us govrn is so insanely corrupted
god this so bad wtf, its basically scamming, you are told you are getting something but you get something else entirely. god damn
I actually stopped eating mayonnaise because it started making me sick. Used to put it on every sandwich
I think you should sue
If I remember correctly in the US the consumer has to prove the food causes damage. Given the change in law, the companies would be given a free pass, especially considering the number of company friendly judges which have been appointed.
*Media:* Fast Food is unhealthy.
*Me:* Okay I'll eat healthy food outside.
*Media:* All outside food is unhealthy.
*Me:* Okay, I'll cook at home and eat.
*Media:* Food you buy at the store can have unhealthy ingredients.
*Me:* Cool, I'll cook organic, whole foods at home only.
*Media:* Expensive healthy food bought at the store is fraudulent.
*Me:* I ... guess I'll just grow a farm?
In a system that incentivizes a companies bottom line with no regard for people, companies looked at their profits with no regards to human safety? Who could've expected that?
I can't wait for enough ppl to realize this and we hit the needed critical mass to do away with capitalism once and for all 😈
Indeed, but capitalism is formed around the very idea of greed. It's a system that rewards greed. Capitalism is for capitalists. Capitalists have capital. Money, land, people. That means if you don't have a lot of that, then you are a subject.
@@y0nd3r It's about *Meritocracy.* Profits are a fundamental high moral good, we can't exist without them, it means producing more than consumed to create that production. If you have a job you are a capitalist unless it's 100% for charity. (I realize such obvious facts are left out of typical Marxist college indoctrination)
Governments theoretically can limit fraud which has nothing inherent to do with profits, but governments are the ultimate monopoly which means poor performance.
@@y0nd3r if a company is selling you a product that is garbage just don't spend your money with that company. You don't really need to get into what capitalism is to understand, "their products are garbage. I'm not buying anything from them again."
@@Mrbfgray if I have a job where the boss is skimming 90% of the value of my labor off the top and that doesn't leave me money to survive, but the mofo boss is a billionaire, and all his billionaire buddies are jacking the rates of everything up on anything that humans need to survive, THAT'S capitalism. You should value your labor more than what you've been told it's worth. It's making the boss a billionaire.
The FDA is in on this, and some people have known this for a few decades. If people had any idea what the FDA allows slipped into our food as long as the percentages meet the agreed upon percentages.
That's not because some FDA.... that's because of the whole American image that government is bad and that any regulations are evil...
Same goes for guns, car safety, etc... There are extremely convincing macro data statistics, these are not complicated topics to judge and fix