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  • Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
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    In this video, we discuss how Americans are getting tricked into buying fake food! This was a bit of a triggering subject for us because we deal with this every day. We hope you enjoy our discussions and content. If you do, please don't forget to like and subscribe! Thank you all :)
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Комментарии • 196

  • @LynxLord1991
    @LynxLord1991 Год назад +25

    This rarely happens in EU because our very harsh food laws but at the same time sometimes it gets past even the best testers

    • @loners4life
      @loners4life  Год назад +1

      I bet!

    • @asmodon
      @asmodon Год назад +5

      That why it’s a scandal when it comes to light, not just another Tuesday.

    • @Sebas-iv8sz
      @Sebas-iv8sz Год назад +3

      @@asmodon Yeah, i still remember that horse meat scandal.

    • @nesquik8214
      @nesquik8214 Год назад +1

      @@Sebas-iv8sz yeah... traumatized 8-ish year-old me

    • @JarlGrimmToys
      @JarlGrimmToys Год назад +3

      @@loners4lifeIn countries with socialised healthcare. It becomes important for governments to encourage healthier living standards.
      So over here the government ban’s potentially dangerous ingredients. It’s a common phrase that the Europe bans food until it’s proven to be safe, while America bans food once it’s proven to dangerous.
      The government also regulates how much sugar can go into food and drinks.
      Because it saves the government money in healthcare, and more importantly keeps us healthier.

  • @zapster252
    @zapster252 Год назад +10

    What pi**es me the most about this topic is the fact that those who cheat don't even have to fear real punishment.😡 Why are there not even decent penalties? These companies can pay these penalties out of petty cash. So even if you guys want to pay attention to your diet, want to buy the right food and are even willing to pay a lot more for it, even then you hardly have a chance not to get deceived and cheated. And the responsible authority does nothing about it but talks itself out of responsibility, instead of protecting people. Really very frustrating. I would be in the mood to riot over that issue. 😡😤😠It's not about any unnecessary stuff, it's about food ffs!!!

  • @seanmc1351
    @seanmc1351 Год назад +7

    hi guys i comment regular from the UK
    i didnt know she was not well, all the best for tomorrow and speedy recovery, you mean alot to your subs
    i look forward to your commnets

  • @DruncanUK
    @DruncanUK Год назад +13

    The horse meat "scandal" in UK originated in Eastern Europe. The problem wasn't that it was horse meat, it was because the meat source was unknown. Horse meat is common in Europe and is tightly regulated but the meat that reached UK bypassed the regulations and was from an unknown source. It is very tasty btw.

    • @loners4life
      @loners4life  Год назад +1

      Interesting! Good to know 👌🏻

    • @asmodon
      @asmodon Год назад +2

      Yes, horse meat is good. Horse butchers are relatively common in some regions of Germany. But it’s getting less and less popular.

    • @Spatzels49
      @Spatzels49 Год назад +1

      also a big problem was that most horses are pumped full with medicine that shouldnt be eaten.

    • @JarlGrimmToys
      @JarlGrimmToys Год назад

      There are 3 abattoirs licensed to slaughter horses for meat in the UK, and it can be imported if it meets UK standards.
      It’s not common but you can find some butchers that sell it. I’ve heard it’s more common in Scotland, but haven’t confirmed it.

    • @JarlGrimmToys
      @JarlGrimmToys Год назад

      There are 3 abattoirs licensed to slaughter horses for meat in the UK, and it can be imported if it meets UK standards.
      It’s not common but you can find some butchers that sell it. I’ve heard it’s more common in Scotland, but haven’t confirmed it.

  • @jordi95
    @jordi95 Год назад +7

    One sad fact : Spain is the Largest producer of olive Oil in the world, but Italy is the largest seller. How is that possible? Italy buys a lot of Oil from Spain, mixes it with a little bit of Italian oil and sell it as Italian Olive Oil. That accounts for 1/3 to 1/2 of all of the Olive Oil sold by Italy. So... when you are buying Olive Oil "From Italy" in the US, you are actually buying Spanish Olive oil mixed with a small ammount of olive Oil from Italy.
    Why do they do it? Because people are stupid and associate Olive Oil being from Italy as it being of better quality, so they can get more money for it. And since Italy doesn't produce enough Olive oil to cover for the demand, they buy Spanish Olive Oil and resell it as being Italian.
    Don't worry though, the quality of Spanish olive Oil is top Notch (As long as it hasn't been edultarated ofc)

    • @Gambit771
      @Gambit771 Год назад

      England is the wine capital of the world.
      More wine is sold through London than anywhere else in the world.
      England has more types of sausages and cheese than anywhere else but the 'capitals' of the world for those are deemed to be elsewhere.
      Weird how it works but not as egregious as olive oil like you are describing.

    • @jordi95
      @jordi95 Год назад

      @@Gambit771 England doesn't label the wines they are selling as English wines though

    • @apmoy70
      @apmoy70 Год назад

      They do the same in Greece too, Greek olive oil has lower acidity than the Italian one, so the Italians buy Greek olive oil by the bulk, mix it with their own to lower the acidity and call it Italian

  • @adamclark6756
    @adamclark6756 Год назад +11

    I am positive that this is a global problem, not just an American one. Criminality has no boundaries.

    • @dnocturn84
      @dnocturn84 Год назад +3

      @It`s okay. Yes, agreed. And another example is, that in the EU it is simply not allowed to call something "Parmesan" (just as an example; "Champagne" would be another one), without being produced in a specific region of Italy (Parma, Reggio Emilia, Modena, Bologna and Mantua), by strictly monitored and certified manufacturers. If you want to make and sell an inferior cheese, then you have to give it a new name and hope somebody purchases it solely because it is cheap and who might accept to consume this garbage copy instead of the original. These rules of region-protection for a product is something the US is fighting like crazy. But for Europeans it is a guarantee, that you buy the real thing, made in a specific way and by using ingredients of a known quality.

    • @lm4122
      @lm4122 Год назад

      not really here in EU those products are a crime, if spoted an investigation will follow and sometimes even close the store that sells them if the are related to the fake food.
      Reason even USA meat is iligal in EU and many many other things, we all call American USA food iligal or plastic food.

    • @dadatosu4702
      @dadatosu4702 Год назад

      I miss food from my country but unfortunately the procedures here in Europe doesn't allow to import whatever u want, if u don't follow the "allow and not allow" list, there is little u can do.

  • @papaquonis
    @papaquonis Год назад +8

    Horse meat used to be much more commonly eaten way back when, but now you have to go out of your way to track it down. So I guess a lot of horses just weren't processed for meat any longer and so some shady companies thought they could use the horse meat that no one wanted anymore as filler in more profitable types of meat. I tried horse meat, when I was a kid in the 80s (tastes fine, pretty similar to beef), and I wouldn't have any real problems eating it again. But labeling it as something else is just messed up. What we buy has to be what it says on the packaging.

    • @littlefury
      @littlefury Год назад +2

      In fact, horse meat is damn good, even better than beef because it's very lean.

    • @dnocturn84
      @dnocturn84 Год назад +2

      The issue is that there is a difference between horse meat that is save to be eaten by humans and horse meat, that was never meant to be eaten. A horse that is meant for hobby, sports, etc. will most likely receive pharmaceuticals by a vet during its life, that make its meat not safe to be consumed by humans anymore. But there are shady companies out there, that buy this unsafe meat from processing facilities, that were just meant to process a horse that has died of old age (for example), either for cat and dog food or simply for a normal burial. A horse that is meant to be eaten, will have strict limits on which medicine is allowed for it to take.

    • @Kraakesolv
      @Kraakesolv Год назад

      @@littlefury Yeah, horse is very tasty indeed

  • @WookieWarriorz
    @WookieWarriorz Год назад +8

    im 28 and Irish and ive never had food poisoning in my life lol, funny thing is im not super hygienic or anything. Its sort of not something people talk about a lot here, maybe you'd hear of the occasional person who had it.

    • @NameNr123
      @NameNr123 Год назад +2

      This! It's so crazy, whenever you watch a US-based TV show and food poisoning is such a commen theme. Never came in contact with food poisoning in Germany either. A bad stomach maybe, but more because of the type of food you ate (fried stuff etc.) and not the ingredients.

  • @sampeeps3371
    @sampeeps3371 Год назад +7

    Guys look into why the EU doesn't import american chlorinated chicken

    • @sampeeps3371
      @sampeeps3371 Год назад

      @@hette457 animal welfare is terrible in the US. The chickens have festering sores and disease on them from sitting in their own filth. As a result they have to wash their chicken in chlorine so it doesn't kill people. If you eat chicken in the US it's that type of chicken. The factories shovel chicken off the floor and put it back on the conveyor. The Conservative government in the UK are trying to import it, so their friends can get rich, and put British farmers out of business. So far we've told them no.

  • @andreanecchi5930
    @andreanecchi5930 Год назад +21

    As an Italian, replace the parmesan with something inferior and call it Parmesan , it makes me very angry, I ate a slice the day before yesterday with a salami called cacciatorino 🤤

  • @Kwstas_Vagias
    @Kwstas_Vagias Год назад +3

    Here in Greece the state it self is responsible for the olive oil, everything is meticulously tested all the way from the production to consumers, my sister in law is a chemist that works on this post checking the purity of olive oil every day.
    And this is the first time in that video that i see a virgin olive oil without an expiration date.

    • @apmoy70
      @apmoy70 Год назад +2

      True that, I have a small olive grove which produces my family's olive oil (enough for a year's consumption) and even privately harvested olives and the olive oil produced for private consumption is chemically tested for pesticides or other harmful chemicals

  • @DaSoulmann
    @DaSoulmann Год назад +4

    I have a dehydrator and power grater/shredder... many items can be dehydrated from the pure source.. Garlic, Onions, fresh Herbs etc... I found the ground Turmeric I was buying, was making me sick... I bought some actual Turmeric Root, dried it and ground it myself, it does not make me sick... shocker ... the root is also freezable... buying whole spices is also a good way to avoid fakes, and fresh ground spices have a much richer flavour profile, than pre-ground... Processed Spices are ground at high speeds, which heats up the product, which releases many of the fragrant oils from the product, so the flavour is much flatter than a fresh ground spice from a low speed grinder, or Mortar and Pestle. With some prep-time then into the dehydrator, then once dried, through the grinder for items I use a lot of, or Mortar and Pestle when I just need a dash of something, or need to make a spice blend. I don't find it takes up a huge block of my time, and the peace of mind I get from it, is well worth the effort... cheers to all.

  • @Haazheelt
    @Haazheelt Год назад +3

    Regarding the subject of "beef lasagna" that contained horse meat in EU, the problem is not so much that the horse is not edible (which is only a cultural issue, we eat sometimes horse meat in France), but that these horses were old, sick and therefore stuffed with a lot of antibiotics, banned on the European food market. Otherwise, horse meat is much more expensive than beef...
    A horse is majestic and worthy of admiration. A cow is ugly and nobody minds eating it. The question arises in similar terms for dogs, cats and rabbits, where they are consumed in some countries.

  • @DidierWierdsma6335
    @DidierWierdsma6335 Год назад +7

    Seriously guys if you value you're health come to Europe it's so much better over here please stop eating trash no offence.
    I feel sorry for all the people now living in the Divided States of America once again no offence you have been sold a lie America is not the greatest country in the world and it's definitely not the land of the free far from it.
    Other than that a great reaction/video keep up the great work👍
    And greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱

    • @JacobBax
      @JacobBax Год назад

      What gives you the idea that this only happen in the US?

    • @DidierWierdsma6335
      @DidierWierdsma6335 Год назад

      @@JacobBax Watch this reaction/video again Jacob.
      America loves cutting costs it's all about the bottom line over there in the so called land of the free it's not.
      America treats it's own people like slaves and dirt it's disgusting no offence the truth can be a hard pill to swallow.
      Is Europe perfect no it isn't but it's still way much better than America the so called land of the free it's not.

  • @Gambit771
    @Gambit771 Год назад +1

    Anything cheddar in America isn't cheddar unless imported from England, and I don't mean just from cheddar which really is the only cheddar you should buy.

  • @KeithDCanada
    @KeithDCanada Год назад +2

    You would be 'SHOCKED' at what's allowed in your food products without appearing on the labels. There are tons of chemicals, like food dyes, that are common additives that are not required by the FDA to be included on an ingredient list (many of which are possible carcinogens). That is an entire other issue with food production in some countries, like the US.
    Not to mention non-food items that have a quantity limit for appearing your food products.... there are entire websites that will tell you such information like "how many 'bug parts' are allowed to be in a jar of peanut butter"... etc etc. Those are definitely disturbing to read.

  • @kimwilson3863
    @kimwilson3863 Год назад +32

    It's not fake food that will kill Americans, it's greed complacency and laziness. 90% of the food you buy prepacked can be made at home from fresh produce so you know what it is and what's in it. Very sorry to hear of your health worries. I hope you feel better soon. Don't eat anything you don't make yourself from scratch is a good start to being healthier. Good wishes from UK.👍

    • @loners4life
      @loners4life  Год назад +2

      Thank you very much! 🙏🏻

    • @sampeeps3371
      @sampeeps3371 Год назад +1

      @@loners4life look up chlorinated chicken. If you eat chicken there it's been washed in chlorine, to hide terrible animal welfare practices, and filthy conditions.

    • @pahis1248
      @pahis1248 Год назад

      not even fun

    • @kimwilson3863
      @kimwilson3863 Год назад +1

      @@pahis1248I'm not sure what you mean? 🤔

    • @kasper2970
      @kasper2970 Год назад +1

      @@kimwilson3863use fresh products instead of processed food.

  • @detlefklinge1195
    @detlefklinge1195 Год назад +4

    Buy local is generally a great idea... but pls get me right, I wouldn't buy local American. Think of all the food from the US that are banned here in Europe. Therefore buying local US isn't maybe the best option.
    What I mean is, it's good to try to buy local but you really make sure that the product that you buy local is really the quality that you want.
    I remember when my parents rarely bought horse steak... it tastes different and it was way more expensive than beef. So Lynda is right. The scandal was more that we bought horse meat although it was labelled as beef.
    Hope Lynda is fine again, she looks and sounds much better already. 👍

  • @BigAndTall666
    @BigAndTall666 Год назад

    Chlorophyl is the green in leaves, no DANGER! 😂

  • @BigAndTall666
    @BigAndTall666 Год назад

    Eating cheap peanuts, they taste cheap, 100% genuine! 😂

  • @RealConstructor
    @RealConstructor Год назад +4

    In America people are not interested in what they buy and eat, only how much it costs. In Europe it is different but also here it is deteriorating, you’ll have to be vigilant all the time. But I think we have better ingredient labels, which are obligatory here. But manufacturers are looking for loopholes everywhere. It’s just easier for food producers and manufacturers in the US to mess with food, because of your lower food standards and flawed food laws.

    • @karriqueen
      @karriqueen Год назад

      I don't think it's fair to say Americans don't care. I think it's more that they don't know. What they get in their food is not as strict as here in Europa. So when something is used in their bread that cause cancer, and it's used in yoga mats and other stuff, they don't know before someone makes a RUclips video about it. it's not like the government or FDA or anyone else tells them all the harmful shit gets put in their food. I think if they knew, they would care.

  • @module79l28
    @module79l28 Год назад +5

    When I think about fake food, two products immediately come to mind: Pringles and Sunquick. Pringles look like potato chips but aren't and Sunquick looks like orange juice but it's not.

    • @Kraakesolv
      @Kraakesolv Год назад

      Pringles don't really look like "natural" chips though, if you've had normal chips in your life I don't imagine you'd think Pringles was the same?

    • @module79l28
      @module79l28 Год назад

      @@Kraakesolv - I'm not talking about me, I'm talking about people I know who always thought that.

    • @jbird4478
      @jbird4478 Год назад

      They are honest about that though. But I'll never understand why people buy a can of chips that's only 40% potatoes and 60% cheap filler ingredients, when that's also twice as expensive as actual chips.

  • @NeuroBe
    @NeuroBe Год назад +2

    Interesting story I heard on vacation in Greece about olives: black olives are actually dark purple and still have the stone inside. The aging of the black olives makes it difficult to mechanically remove the stones. So if you see pitch black olives in a store with the stones removed, they are most likely dyed green olives. Also if the stone is inside but also pitch black, from the coloring agent. It's cheaper to harvest the green olives instead of waiting for a few extra months for the aging.
    Also watch out with soy sauce. Real soy sauce can take up to 2 years to brew, so there are a lot of fake ones, some of them even toxic.

    • @Gr8Buccaneer
      @Gr8Buccaneer Год назад +1

      you are right about the olives: Iron-II-Gluconat oder Iron-II-Lactat,the use to blacken them.still colored olives taste bitter and they are harder.i belive at least 80% of people that say: i love black olives,never tastet a real black olive.

  • @harbingerofevil
    @harbingerofevil Год назад +3

    The good news from the video was that it's usually the more expensive products/brands/... that are not pure.
    I think we are really lucky how things are handled here in the EU and I hope laws will change sooner than later there! Greetings from Germany

  • @Gazer75
    @Gazer75 Год назад +2

    @16:45 That is not how it works. They have a budget and do spot checks when they can. And because of the budget they only have enough manpower to inspect around 2% on average.

  • @alexandrorocca7142
    @alexandrorocca7142 Год назад +1

    I only buy Saffron stems. It's a little pricier than powder, but more difficult to counterfeit since you can take a single stem between your fingers and test the color and fragrance. Dried mushrooms are also often mixed with cheaper ones or even with eggplant slices that acquire a similar taste during the dehydration process.

  • @WilliamPenn-jr4by
    @WilliamPenn-jr4by Год назад +1

    Hi hoog day . Intro 75yr old male living in the Highlands of Scotland in a small costal village called Nairn 26 mile3s from Inverness. Can I just say I love the wat you halt your you tube ,to discuss the subject ,unlike other reaction s, you are more sincere about things. I have a sister in Brownwood Tx ,close to yuo growing up maybe. Please try some brit comedy (Harry Enfield oe Al Murray) Please keep up good work Luv to you both ME xx

  • @BRIDINC1972
    @BRIDINC1972 Год назад +1

    You asked if horse meat was more expense, live Horses like race horses and work horses are an expensive animal. But dead horses are basically dead meat. The bodies were used for things like dogfood etc. When we in the UK and Ireland discoverd horse meat in our burgers and the like it was a bit shock to us. Parts of Europe have been eating horse meat for generations although horse meat tends to be tough and tasteless as they are a meat with a lower nutritional value than either beef,lamb or pork

  • @daveofyorkshire301
    @daveofyorkshire301 Год назад +4

    When you see the word "blend" you know they're not pure or 100% anything... That's the definition of blend, mix with another substance...
    Look for *PDO* (Protected Designation of Origin) or *PGI* (Protected Geographical Indication) that has been Cold Pressed, extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) has very low acidity (0.2-0.3%) if it's not stated question why...

  • @YearRoundHibernater
    @YearRoundHibernater Год назад +1

    The Europe horse meat scandal turned out to be a Dutch trader who was buying horse meat from Romania through a shell company and with the help of a big French food processing company called Spanghero it was processed and relabelled as Dutch or German "Beef" and resold to other producers mostly for use in frozen meals or processed foods. The original supplier wasn't really part of the fraud he was just supplying horse meat so it was food safe, and it left Romania correctly labelled. Before they discovered the supplier there was health concerned more over the unknown of how the horses had been medicated through rearing as that effects whether or not it might be dangerous to eat them.

  • @codadivolpe
    @codadivolpe Год назад +2

    The people dont know that the real "Parmigiano" is produced only in one region of Italy. and the "Parmigiano Reggiano" in a small part of this region.
    Is expensive for us here in Italy (more than 20 Eu x Kg) ... imagine outside.

    • @beaconeersofthesevenmaps3467
      @beaconeersofthesevenmaps3467 Год назад

      Check Agrinascente, it is where I get parmigiano and other delicatezze, less expensive

    • @Gambit771
      @Gambit771 Год назад

      Real cheddar is only produced in cheddar and has a very specific and local production method that makes it hard to find elsewhere.

  • @HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey
    @HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey Год назад +1

    Horse meat got into some UK stores who brought their meat in from Europe. They soon noticed and stopped lines affected. Horse meat did not get into the food chain in the UK.

    • @Gambit771
      @Gambit771 Год назад +1

      It did in that you could buy extra tasty lasagnas and for a while.

  • @matshjalmarsson3008
    @matshjalmarsson3008 Год назад +1

    In Sweden, horse meat is sold as a sandwich topping, and more expensive than say ham, so sometimes it's not really horse.
    I think that in some countries horse owners pay for a cremation of their deceased horse and because of corruption or something the meat ends up on the market at a low price

  • @wWvwvV
    @wWvwvV Год назад

    In Germany, horse meat and sausage is not a big issue if you know what you buy. I myself like the "Pferdewurst" from the farmer market. But there were occasions in the past where horse meat was sold as beef here. Probably totally contaminated with antibiotics. Not meant for consumption at all.

  • @camillagustafssonmood3913
    @camillagustafssonmood3913 Год назад +1

    ❤️👍Hi from Sweden 🇸🇪 I'm really enjoying your videos band your thoughts 👍❤️

  • @BigAndTall666
    @BigAndTall666 Год назад

    Fear mungoring and fakes, just buy the genuine stuff!

  • @Daniel_von_Effono
    @Daniel_von_Effono Год назад +1

    Horse meat is much more expensive than beef. From a German prospective mixing horse meat with cow meat makes no sense from a profit prospective.

  • @rudymorganti7155
    @rudymorganti7155 Год назад

    Buono cacciatore con Parmigiano e prosciutto. Hugs from Italy 🇮🇹.

  • @daveofyorkshire301
    @daveofyorkshire301 Год назад +2

    There isn't really a problem with horse, camel, Lama or anything meat other than the controls on it. Horses are subjected to hormones and treatments that cattle aren't, cattle actually have passports that permit it or it's meat to travel other countries, horses aren't controlled that heavily... So it's not the meat itself it's the history behind the meat or the animal it came from. If it's farmed for food, it's probably fine, but an ex-racecourse or plough animal turning up on your plate might have issues...

  • @RaidoRaud
    @RaidoRaud Год назад

    In EU everything which is not actual cheese is forbidden to called cheese nowhere in the label, not even "cheese taste". Illegal to mention cheese in a product where there is no actual cheese in it. So many labels and designs were changed because of it. Like example plant based cheese products are called "veggie slices" now etc..

  • @bubach85
    @bubach85 Год назад

    As a swede I’ve never heard of anyone getting food posiniong, ever. Not even 100% sure what it means… ’murica! 🤣

  • @rachelbarber8814
    @rachelbarber8814 Год назад +1

    Apart from the greed and morality issues of intentionally adulterated food, the nutritional content will be inferior and so people will eat more to get the proper nourishment. It starts to spiral into weight gain and obesity. That’s not the only factor of course.

  • @alexanderblume5377
    @alexanderblume5377 Год назад

    Trader Joes is a german brand ( original name is LIDL, the big competitor too ALDI (also a german brand))

  • @Dutch1961
    @Dutch1961 Год назад +2

    I'm so glad I live in the EU.

  • @SuperDrAnders
    @SuperDrAnders Год назад

    The fact that the penalty is based on civil law is hopelessly ridiculous. In Denmark a producer got a fine of about $5750 for not using capital letters for the word "egg" in the description of a prepackage food item. If you willfully mislabel an item, it carries a way more hefty fine, as well as prison of up to 2 years. If that item is an allergen that could have mortal consequences, it's up to 8 years.
    It's not likely you will end up in prison, since it's nearly impossible to actually prove that managers of the company knew, but it definitely is a possibility.

  • @dslight113
    @dslight113 Год назад

    horse meat slices are fine , imagine a season less grilled sausage (grillworst) , cold and pretty bland.

  • @oldrockgeeser9426
    @oldrockgeeser9426 Год назад +1

    In a way we are prisoners of our gluttony and the need to eat everything from everywhere so we import the whole world to our table instead of eating what our land offers.

  • @stevehartley7504
    @stevehartley7504 Год назад

    It depends on what the FDA classifies as ,Safe and 100%.
    Lobbying helps determine what producers and manufacturers want!

  • @francescogallina2559
    @francescogallina2559 Год назад +2

    Real food an usa. Two differents Universes

  • @danielhejlund3314
    @danielhejlund3314 Год назад

    The horse meat is a really bad because they give horses some medicine and such that is very toxic for humans to ingest. (As they are usually bred for work or as racing horses)

  • @kasper2970
    @kasper2970 Год назад

    Has nothing to do importing or exporting, but what’s allowed. Like the example of honey. If you look on the packag with honey you will see it’s 90% ore more cornsirupe with aroma.

  • @daveofyorkshire301
    @daveofyorkshire301 Год назад +2

    I find it amazing you assume American "local" producers aren't doing precisely the same as everybody else, or even worse given the American overwhelming profit motive...
    Nothing is 100% pure, but the minimum levels must be policed to make sure natural process variation is not perverted into profit driven product mutilation.

    • @loners4life
      @loners4life  Год назад

      I think we just want to hope that they aren’t doing the same thing sadly 😅

  • @dabbiedeejee4804
    @dabbiedeejee4804 Год назад

    Another One.
    In the netherlands a research program found out that most cheese on hamburgers, frozen pizza etc......isnt cheese.
    Its a “fake” cheese by-product that taste like nothing normaly.
    Untill you heat iT.
    Then iT suddenly taste like cheese.

    • @jbird4478
      @jbird4478 Год назад

      It's called "surrogate cheese". It's completely legal. The problem is that the ingredients to make surrogate cheese are things like vegetable oil and wheat - stuff that already is in frozen pizza's and the like anyway. So as long as there is also some actual cheese in it, you will not see it on the ingredients list.

  • @arnodobler1096
    @arnodobler1096 Год назад +2

    Parmesan cheese, balsamic vinegar, high quality olive oil, top wines, Serano ham, ... are expensive to produce, but some are also totally overpriced. However, you can not expect for 3 € top olive oil, the customer must be more aware! However, there must be more controls (staff and laboratories) and the producers and traders must be punished more harshly. Fines and prison sentences and closure of such businesses and license withdrawal.

    • @zapster252
      @zapster252 Год назад +1

      Hi Arno. Once again I agree 100% with what you said. Penalties must be really harsh. Otherwise the cheats won`t even care.

    • @arnodobler1096
      @arnodobler1096 Год назад +1

      @@zapster252 Hi, yes.
      As long as the profits are higher than the penalties, it's a joke, in the bad sense.

  • @dabbiedeejee4804
    @dabbiedeejee4804 Год назад

    Aaah the dit is like the man in the house 😂

  • @maxxie84
    @maxxie84 Год назад

    I can tell you that horse meat is AMAZING, the best you can have. As a french it’s something I had a good few times. Too bad so many people don’t want to even try it. Though the Tesco scandal is I believe they were buying it from poor Eastern European countries and it was like very bad quality horse meat, so cheaper than beef. Even though when I heard it my first reaction was also “god, why are you complaining, it’s so much more expensive usually and so much better!” But also the issue is you’re being lied to

    • @kateparkinson5068
      @kateparkinson5068 Год назад

      Also, the drugs (antibiotics etc) that can be given to cows, which will be eaten, are regulated.
      Horses can be given other unregulated medicines because they are not intended for the food chain.
      Obviously, horse meat can be, and is eaten, but it is raised and treated differently.

  •  Год назад

    i love the aspect that him still believes in miracles and she is more down to earth wake up dude

  • @stevehartley7504
    @stevehartley7504 Год назад

    Horse meat is eaten in France which is where the contamination occurred!

  • @manfredkandlbinder3752
    @manfredkandlbinder3752 Год назад

    I know for a fact that in case of olive oil there is a major problem. You can mix it with cheaper kinds of olive oils and it is almost impossible to detect it. There are specialists, like sommeliers are for whine, that taste olive oil and even those cannot tell the difference in most cases. Laboratory testing is also useless in most cases.
    Which begs the question, if the lab cannot chemically tell the difference, the expert cannot taste the difference. What is even the difference at all ? Olive oil, the expensive ones at least, always struck me as overly pretentious and posh foody BS and in a sense they are. Just buy regular, affordable olive oil, it is still a healthy choice. Olive oil never was a pretentious luxury and more of a basic food, almost like bread, in the mediterranian, don't get fooled by pricey BS, the regular stuff is good enough.

  • @Micha-qv5uf
    @Micha-qv5uf Год назад

    Importing is massively cheaper than producing locally. It comes down to the value of the currency. Currency in South America or South Asia are just worth a fraction of the US Dollar. Therefore fertilizer, labour, everything is just a fraction of the cost. It wouldn't be a problem though if there were proper regulations. Thats why paying more taxes like in Europe makes sense becaue Institutions like the FDA can be financially independant and are less likely to get corrupted.

  • @alankohn6709
    @alankohn6709 Год назад +1

    Sorry I have no trouble believing the 2% (A) if the government wanted to increase that they'd have to raise taxes and you'd scream (B) The extra time and paper work cost money so food prices would go up you'd scream.
    Chase up a series call the 'Victorian Baker' it follows a group of modern bakers who go through how bakeries changed from the start of Victorian era when it was local bakers using local flour to the industrial era when you have bakeries trying to feed huge overflowing cities and some of the corner cutting that involved

  • @wykydytron
    @wykydytron Год назад

    Horse meat is cheap, racing horses etc are expensive. As for meat it's healthy and you will not know difference from cow, in my country they did that for few years, sold horse meat as beef, no one noticed 😅, they also sold road salt as food salt, once again no one new difference... Even here in EU we get food scams constantly as it's impossible to check everything and if they get cought they just run with the money and start again.

  • @darrenhandley3300
    @darrenhandley3300 Год назад

    i got the feeling that because you saw fish as a high import, other countries where to blame and not the greed from alot of usa companys. in the uk we dont import food from usa because its not healthy and break so many laws. its not just about the boxed product, its also how it was grown or fed. with like alot of things in the usa its not about it fake or not but about the money. you have to ask why are eu members are living longer then ever before, but not in the usa.

  • @PyroMaestros
    @PyroMaestros Год назад +1

    I can 100% understand the not wanting to know, in my Country in trust what i buy because there are a lot of regulation.
    I having this feeling is highly valueable, and i really hope the USA will be able to reach to point.
    I have never had food posining and i can't remember at the top of my head when someone i know had a food posining.

  • @0Defensor0
    @0Defensor0 Год назад

    I would recommend you to watch the Knowing Better videos, some of them qualify as movies though.

  • @bleifuchs1299
    @bleifuchs1299 Год назад +1

    Horses are more valubel then cows of course, but horse meat is not. See if a racing horse falls has a complicated bone break and needs to be put down, it looses almost all of its worth, since only very few people buy horse sausages or somthing of that sort. So to offer a ground meat producer the meat and get maybe 10% of what the same amount in beef woud sell for is still a profit. Its pretty much an opportunity crime not an industrie.

    • @merrydiscusser6793
      @merrydiscusser6793 Год назад +2

      Actually, horse meat for consumption is something completely different from meat from a race horse. A race horse is going to get excellent medical services, including things like antibiotics and other things that disqualify it from ending up as human food.
      I am pretty sure you can not sell horse meat from a race horse as human food.
      The scandal was that the horse meat was mislabeled and that it wasn't horse meat for human consumption.

    • @bleifuchs1299
      @bleifuchs1299 Год назад

      @@merrydiscusser6793 they found Phenylbutazon in the meals, wich made the assumption logical that exactly that was the case.

  • @dabbiedeejee4804
    @dabbiedeejee4804 Год назад

    One fraud you often see.
    The product tells iT got black truffle in iT.
    Truffle is verry expensive and to add iT Lets say to soup or a kind of dressing would make that product cost like 20 dollar.
    But iT only cost Lets say 3 dollar.
    What They add is a by-product of oil production.
    Gasoline...that you put in your car.
    That by-product taste like truffle.

  • @mick1535
    @mick1535 Год назад

    Hi guys I think its more a world problem I'm from Australia we have had fish fraud but now have a system of on the spot inspections our major supermarkets have to put country of origin and whether is fresh or frozen the authorities take misrepresentation of any food type very seriously and do police it, you get what you pay for Cheers

  • @laur4a768
    @laur4a768 Год назад

    19:35 issue is that no one kills young and healthy horse, why would they? That meat was very old horses and probably sick ones they put down

  • @dwelfusius
    @dwelfusius Год назад

    Also, horse is very good and tasty meat.And normally quite lean

  • @sampeeps3371
    @sampeeps3371 Год назад +1

    Could you guys do some rugby hits vids? Its great to see americans react to that and you'll get 10s of thousands of views. Win win. We can point you to some good ones

  • @gowest19
    @gowest19 Год назад

    Pray you feel better soon. Sometimes a report is an eyeopener ,try a way make your food fresh.

    • @williamwilkes9873
      @williamwilkes9873 Год назад

      Go buy your palate...............champagñe is good for you........as legit', food..................honest!

    • @williamwilkes9873
      @williamwilkes9873 Год назад

      Not buy........."by"........

  • @beageler
    @beageler Год назад

    To be fair, most roughage can be food and non-food, depending where its from, and there's no other difference. Of course that is still fraud, but dilution with non-food needn't be THAT bad.
    The horse meat thing was fraud, yes. But I didn't get the whole hubbub. People acted like they'd been poisoned.

  • @dslight113
    @dslight113 Год назад

    meh i give any stomach pains after eating, the definition of food poisoning , otherwise i have 2 go see a doc every day , the problem is mild food poisoning we probably all had that and just thought oh just a stomach ache .
    the one where you vomit and/or actually get contraction pains etc ? those are the one's that i call a true food poisoning situation .
    i once ate premade meat (i didn't preserve it very well) , reheated it in the frying pan , and not even 5 minutes later i was a pure vomit cannon ,, no doubt this was food poisoning.

  • @Wolfspaule
    @Wolfspaule Год назад

    The plant needs water.

  • @dwelfusius
    @dwelfusius Год назад

    I don't think i ever had food poisoning in my life,36yr and I also eat certain meats bloody

  • @KevinWood9
    @KevinWood9 Год назад

    Companies are just getting small fines and should be way way bigger that’s why they don’t care

    • @loners4life
      @loners4life  Год назад

      Seriously. It’s pretty insane

    • @KevinWood9
      @KevinWood9 Год назад

      I'm in England and we had the horse meat in with burgers forgot what happened but the people here wasn't happy. Hope your lady is feeling better

  • @dnocturn84
    @dnocturn84 Год назад

    It says a lot, that this original video focuses sooo much an the financial damage because of food fraud. It is so much more important to me as someone from Europe, that they sell something inferior, that might even cause damage to my health, without me knowing it. Screw that extra dollar that these criminals gaine through this, but what potentially dangerous materials did I just consume, is a so much more important question, that I have to ask. Why is the financial aspect of this so important for Americans? This should be the least thing to worry about. Sorry.

  • @dabbiedeejee4804
    @dabbiedeejee4804 Год назад

    Horse meat isnt that expensive.
    Think about All the old horses in the coumtry that die.
    What we do with them?
    They are worthles.
    Untill you grind them up and put them into a Nice hamburger.

  • @marcusfranconium3392
    @marcusfranconium3392 Год назад +1

    Years ago there was a big cheese stink , as american companies named poor replica US produced cheese Dutch Gouda cheese .
    Using the methods of cheese making of american cheeses , and that is a big big nono as gouda cheese is not only the method but also the region its beeing produced and traded . Huge fines where isued .
    The saame with italian olive oils , french wines . Using cheap pangeas fish and sell them as cod . Having procucts with less than 34 % chocolate content , selling it as chocolate and in europe its not even considerd chocolate but coco fanatasy .

  • @annekasX
    @annekasX Год назад

    Love your videos, seen all of them.
    I feel that original video is made for promoting FDA and is lacking self criticism. I'm half way trough video and haven't heard anything about american foods yet. Everything bad seems to come out side world. I really don't believe there's nothing fake in american produce. I'm european, from Estonia and never had food poisoning and at least in our country there must be labels for example cheese and cheese-like products. It must be clear for consumer what they buy.

  • @Sayitlikitiz101
    @Sayitlikitiz101 Год назад

    The problem with the US is that Americans are trying everything they can to free themselves of government control because they don't trust it, rather than try everything to bring the government under their control to work for their benefit. Right wing and left wing, all seem to view their own government as an obstacle rather than try to find a way to make it the common solution.

  • @kogelmogel1000
    @kogelmogel1000 Год назад +1

    if you want go a sleep just go

  • @AllLivezmatter
    @AllLivezmatter Год назад

    I cant stand the talk about the violent assassination of other living breathing loving creatures as our right to EAT them 😡😡😡😡

  • @sbjchef
    @sbjchef Год назад

    cook fresh

  • @dominique8233
    @dominique8233 Год назад

    Troll Bot Alert in comments. Offering bit coin advice.

  • @michaels.4847
    @michaels.4847 Год назад +1

    What a nice couple. Wouldn't it be great to see them both react to a "Rammstein" live video?
    Give me a thumbs up if you agree

  • @WilliamPenn-jr4by
    @WilliamPenn-jr4by Год назад +1

    Hi ,sorry about bad spelling, have old eyes and fat fingers, sorry again

    • @kimwilson3863
      @kimwilson3863 Год назад

      Lol same problem with me William. Beautiful place you live in, me Essex coast at moment. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @janolsen9856
    @janolsen9856 Год назад

    pestacide

  • @jimclark1374
    @jimclark1374 Год назад

    Stop interrupting!

  • @pigedehekkan
    @pigedehekkan Год назад +1

    When are you going to get a microphone stand instead of tapping them every 20 second and making annoying microphone noise all the time?

  • @thorstenkoethe
    @thorstenkoethe Год назад

    If you want to know all our food ingredients you have to be or to hire a PI with special knowledge of chemical and biological incidents 😎🔬⚗🧫