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part of the reason that european countries take the "you need prove it's it's safe" approach as opposed to american "ok until backlash" is the healthcare system - since it's primarily public in Europe govs are incentivised to keep their citizens healthy and introduce all kind of proactive measures as treating people costs lots of money. In US however, since healthcare is a business there's little pressure on govs and one might make a case that the opposite is even true - gov often gets lobbied to lax laws and turn a blind eye on health regulations, which mean bigger profits for health industry, insurence companies, producers etc
As a common saying goes *"Prevention is better than cure"*
@@mariatheresavonhabsburg Unless you are making your money in the US "health" industry - where you only profit when people are ill.
Also, in America the ALMIGHTY $ is King..! And so, those companies producing 'drugs', 'sugars', 'salts' or food 'chemicals' ALL lobby the people who make the decisions... That lobbying = payments to individuals, who OK the use of additives that are BANNED in the rest of the world !!! Not 'rocket science', just 'cash in pocket' !
If your government is not invested in the welfare of the citizens...
Well then you probably have just have nepotism and corruption
Kind of like the....
@@mariatheresavonhabsburg and cheaper
The sad thing is that we have exactly the same products even same brands here, just without the chemicals. The same company makes okay food here and toxic food in the us, just cause they can.
Most chemicals in processed food are the to cover low quality of base product.
Chlorine. To cover up unhygienic practices. Also animals that are caged up in cages, so they can't move about.
Well to be fair, and not defending the chemicals filled ones, but most times our euro healthier version tastes like cardboard. It would be better if they just banned them straight up.
The main problem with Chlorine is that it can be used on infected meat to remove the smell. So you can be eating putrid meat without even knowing it. If the meat isn't putrid you don't need the chlorine in the first place.
Chocolate is a recipe by law in Belgium. Even the chocolate from the UK isn't good enough. You're will be shocked how hard our lawes are. 72% of US cheeses aren't even considered cheese in Europe.
Edit : mayonnaise is a recipe by law to
I'm in Canada LOVE your chocolate friend! Always buy for gifts and myself if I want a special treat 😀💓 love to Belgium 😊
The main problem with chlorinated chicken is that at low concentration it does not kill bacteria but put them in a dormant state. They can no longer be detected but they can still infect people. So you cannot make sure that the meat will not cause illness.
That’s insane! It’s just putting a bandage over the problem not actually finding a solution
@@loners4life here in the UK, there’s a current affairs program called Dispatches and a few years ago they had an undercover reporter go into an American abattoir/meat packaging factory, and a lot of the practices carried out there were frightening.
@@johnleonard9090 The UK is so desperate to negotiate a free trade deal with the US since you left the EU, that it will be inescapable that these practices will be regulatory in the uk as well once you have a deal.
The main reason why the EU - US dont have a free trade agreement is food standards, despite being their biggest trading partner and investor.
Bread in the USA would be classed as a cake in Europe because it has so much sugar in it.
American style cheese is called plastic cheese in the UK, and isn’t classified as actual cheese.
The antibiotics aren't just used to treat diseases.
Farmers also use antibiotics to prevent animals from getting sick while keeping the animals under conditions that would normally cause illness.
Some antibiotics are also fed to perfectly healthy animals as apparently low amounts of certain antibiotics can lead to a faster growth rate and such higher productivity.
It is true that you keep the animals healthy, but you also know that the ingredients of the drugs can be detected later in the meat. And here the U.S. just use drugs that are not approved in Europe because one has just found through research that these are very harmful to the human body.
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Oh, I completely agree. I was just listing the reasons why people give antibiotics to healthy animals.
Neither of those are good reasons in my opinion.
You shouldn't keep your animals in such a way that they are almost certain to get sick.
Neither should you use important medicine that will get less efective the more you use it for a tiny bit more profit.
@@baramuth71 But if you're keeping your animals in such poor conditions - you shouldn't be keeping animals. It's regularised cruelty.
@@wessexdruid7598 It's just like humans, we want to live in a healthy environment, so animals have the same right. The animal husbandry business has to provide a livable environment. But I agree with you that many companies use the animal husbandry extremely only to earn more money and cram the animals together under the worst conditions. And this should be absolutely forbidden and the company should be punished with severe penalties.
@@baramuth71 If you have to routinely treat your stock with drugs to stop them getting diseased, you are not keeping them in the right conditions. Not only are you being inhumane, you are drastically impacting humanity's ability to fight diseases with antibiotics in the future.
This is NOT legal, or at least severely frowned upon, in other countries. In the USA it is the norm.
Believe me nobody outside of America could care less about Thanksgiving or the 4th July
yeah in the UK american chocolate isnt chocolate. its listed as "chocolate flavour"
Wait what??? Haha that’s interesting
@@loners4life - You may want to watch this for an explanation? On YT, search: 'Why Europeans Hate the Taste of American Chocolate - Cheddar Explains' (and it's an American explaining, so NO bias).
The reason it's not considered chocolate in the UK is because it doesn't contain enough cocoa powder and cocoa butter I it must contain 30% of each 8n the UK and EU to be considered chocolate but in the US it only needs 10% of just cocoa powder to be considered chocolate. The reason people in the UK don't like American chocolate is because it contains butyric acid which is in vomit, which is why american chocolate tast like vomit to us, it might not tast like it to americans because they are used to it but for us it stands out a lot.
You mean vomit flavour
I tried American chocolate in Australia as I was curious what it would taste like, I almost vomited, it was gross, tasted like chemicals, I also tried Twinkies and I thought afterwards I would have a heartache with the amount of sugar that was it in
The thing is, in the EU, we have universal healthcare. That means that the government pays (with our tax money) our health treatments so, the government is interested in having people as healthy as possible so they don't spend a huge amount of money treating people. That's why the EU is so cautious about what people put in their mouth.
In the US, people pay for their healthcare so, there is no incentive for the government to pay attention to what companies are selling as food to people.
Hi Folk, I don't think Europeans are more aware of what we eat, its that we trust our governments to ban practices which are not proved to be safe, rather than US regulations which only ban stuff if it is proved to be harmful.
This makes total sense. We wish our govt was worth trusting 😅
There are live video feeds from some farms in Europe, and you can at any point ask to visit them. Like the regulations are pretty strick to treatment of farm animals. Here in Denmark we have a fun spring event when people gather to watch cows being let out of winter farms, back into fields 🤭😂
Some farmers allow the same here ! But some are very protective of outsiders seeing their practices 😅
Dansk husdyrhold er vel ikke akkurat det beste. Dere har problemer med MRSA bakterier i svinekjøtt, og dere har ganske høyt innhold av antibiotika i kjøtt i forhold til Norge, Island, Sverige.
1:24 Leif Eriksson all forgotten :( Poor guy. Sailed to North America from Europe in 1000 AD and no one remembers.
Simply boil potatoes and mash them with a bit of milk and butter for the perfect mashed potatoes. I have never made it from a package and never will.
I had fries made from mashed potatoes once! They absorb more oil, not healthy, but so addictive.
i had a friend in the US years ago, they sent me a bulk box of instant mash potato from costco over there, i still have the box, sealed and unopened in my utility room here in the UK and it's gonna stay there until i decide what to do with it, but it has been there for almost 15 years at this point, once i saw what was in it i was never gonna be opening it.
The potatoes are probably sprayed with some insecticide banned everywhere else in the world.
@@amygone2pot Hence it would be best to use an organic variety.
@@micade2518 Actually had it in Ireland, but yes, it came from "America F Yeah!"
FYI: I'm involved with fabrics and stain removal. Few people know that 'Red Dye40' is the 'standard' chemical used to test the ability of a cleaning agent to remove a spot or spill from fibres... It's SO tenacious and stubborn (as a 'staining' chemical) it's not just difficult, but can prove impossible to remove completely. Why would anyone but American's allow it to be added to foodstuffs?
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The countries in Northern Europe/Scandinavia are the countries with the least lactose intolerance.
For example Denmark has about 4% lactose intolerance while the US has 36%.
Norway has the highest quality salmon in the world, known to be a cause for the populations healthyness. It is so good most Japanese sushi shops import specifically Norwegian salmon. Norway also has a massive salmon farm industry on top of the fishing industry. But regulation (as well as quality pride and brand name) keep them completely safe and natural-ish
Most of the salmon sold here in Finland is from Norway. It is good and also cheaper than domestic wild salmon, which is quite hard to find actually.
Greasy fish is good for your health, but there's other factors too concidering the health of Norwegians. Like exercise. You are quite sporty.
Here in Finland if you go to a grocery store and buy vacuum packed chicken meat for example, there's a name (Usually farmers surname) and town of the farm on the package where the meat comes from. Everything must be traceable for the consumer. Gmo is not allowed.
Antibiotics are not allowed for animals as a measure to prevent diseases. Only for sickness and by an order from a vet.
A friend of mine used to go absolutely berserk whenever he had Skittles, so I fully believe the EU was right to be suspicious of them. His mood would change entirely and he'd be very antagonistic.
I follow a few US YTers that live in NZ,Aus and the UK, some of them have mentioned how they get sick when they visit the US, and suddenly put on weight, some of them also have lifelong allergies that magically disappeared once they moved overseas. I think most of the things pointed out in this video aren't a big issue on their own, but the cumulative affects over many years really do start to add up. I think this is how some of these additives are approved because they don't immediately cause a problem.
Short term thinking fast proffit.. " after me the problems" is the American mantra.
but it helps the long aim, shorten life less pension to pay out, also higher medical issues to what helps private healthcare ind. they all in it together
Hello from ze Germans!
Number 9 the chemical that isn't used here is the growth hormon for the cows. This one isn't actually about the antibiotics, but about the chemicals he mentioned in the beginning, you might have mixed that up. The Chemicals cows are given improve milk production by 10-20%, but bc of that they need more antibiotics, which is a side effect. It's the animal cruelty thing, that seems to be the main reason. For me personally it would be the antibiotics. Here in Germany animals are still given antibiotics, but because around 33.000 people die of resistant bacteria in the Eu alone, they try to reduce the usage. I have tried to find studies comparing the countries in the usage of antibiotics, but the ones I found were to complex for me and I couldn't be bothered on a chill evening. Also there seems to be some movement in the us, but there are quite a lot of differences.
Number 6 the chlorine washed chicken: I think you expected it to be lower, but "CDC recommends pH 7.2-7.8 and a free chlorine concentration of at least 1 ppm in pools and at least 3 ppm in hot tubs/spas." For chlorine washed chicken it's 20-50 parts per million of chlorine. That would probably burn a bit more intense in your eyes :D I guess farmers markets are better if they slaughter themself, because they might not do it, but on the other hand... there might be the occasional one, who wants to be extra good to his customers and who puts a little bit more in there ^^ The reason for doing it, is probably because if they find salmonella in the chickens, a whole batch might be dumped. This way the cost to raise chicken under healthy conditions isn't really needed, you can probably throw the sick ones on the truck too, if they are getting washed anyway.
Number 3 the farmed salmon: As far as I know it's not banned in the EU, but the rules might have changed. If I remember correctly we had a pretty nasty scandal around 2018, where farmed salmon was deemed to be the most toxic food on the planet. This was farmed in Norway and one of the ministers had to step down as a result. She was part owner of the business there. I saw a documentation on it and I'm not too sure it has really changed that much. I think they are fed fishmeal, which consists of eels to some extend. Eels are largely caught in the Baltic see, which is a toxic mess in itself, because there is hardly any water exchange and this causes a toxic build up in salmon, which in conjunction with tight living quarters lead to a lot of antibiotics and the use of fungicide. I'm a bit hazy on that, but I doubt it's that much different.
One thing we still have over here is the brown shrimp. That is caught in the North sea and stays fresh for about two days. Since peeling is labour intensive, they are treated in benzoic acid and then shipped off to Morocco. This is probably comparable to the chlorine washed chicken, if not worse. If you weight 100kg/220lbs, the maximum recommended is 500mg per day and if you consume 2500mg per day over a longer period, it can have severe health implications. However the maximum for brown shrimp per kg / 2,2 lbs is 6000mg. So it might sound like we are better off in the EU and that's probably true in a lot of cases, but it's not super rosy.
Number 2: "In 2021, the value of U.S. pork and pork product exports to the world reached a record $8.1 billion, up 5 percent from the prior year as stronger prices offset lower volumes. The top three markets, accounting for 63 percent of exports, were China, Japan, and Mexico - each importing approximately $1.7 billion of pork." Probably the only reason this meat is banned in the EU, is because if the animals can't stand, they are more likely to get infections and therefore are more likely to be given antibiotics. You might have seen the difference of Us and German prisons, but our slaughterhouses actually look like prisons with the same amount of security. So animal cruelty was never a concern here. I have seen some documentations about farmers here, who use small time butchers, killing cows in the field or who move around with a trailer and butcher directly on the farm in order to reduce stress for the animals, but this has only just started I believe and only goes for some farms.
In summary, I think the Eu is concerned about antibiotics. They are the greatest gift to humanity and we are about to loose it, because we use them waaaaaaaay to much. Some patients get illnesses which require expensive and very strong antibiotics, because normal ones are rendered ineffective. This seems to be a fairly large concern, at least in my bubble. I hear far more news about antibiotic resistance in bacteria than growth hormones. Maybe you should check that out, because world wide the death toll for resistant bacteria is 1,27 million exceeding HIV/Aids or Malaria.
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When it comes to foods that we eat and drinks we drink, it's always better to play it safe, that's what I like about the EU, things have to be proven to be safe for consumption whereas it feels like in the US, it's the other way around that it needs to be proven to be unsafe.
Also, food positioning is much higher in the US than it is in the EU, maybe messing around with the food is part of the reason and I'm not saying trying to improve food is a bad thing, but it's got to be done in a safe way and that usually takes time, something I feel the US is willing to take shortcuts on.
At the end of the day, in the US, it all boils down to profit, even at the expense of the public health but it could be worse than that, the health industry there being private, they've got a incentive for people getting sick, it wouldn't surprise me if the health industry lobbies the food industry to make people sick more so the health industry can profit from that, it's a win win, food is cheaper to produce and the health industry stands to profit on that, not so good for Americans thought.
Also, I should point out that a lot of these foods and drinks are not banned in the EU but many have the ingredients that are banned removed, hence why you can get many things of the same name but with different ingredients.
The difference is, in the USA, the State has no vested interest in keeping its people healthy and there's no downside when they are ill. It just makes profit for US "healthcare".
It's not just a feeling, that is the law in USA, you have to prove something is dangerous for it to be forbidden. It's rather telling that the same company behind Agent Orange, PCB etc is the one introducing new questionable stuff.
@@znail4675 Exactly. And the reverse is also true. The "precautionary principle" as it is called is the policy of the EU.
If I were an American citizen I would ask myself just one question (at least about the bread) and this it would be: ok, probably the EU overdo and ban too many ingredients BUT if that ingredient is banned even in Brazil and China maybe (and I repeat maybe) there is really something wrong ... or no? 🤔😉
As always, sorry for english. 🍺
Your English is great! And yea we agree. We ask ourselves these questions too but it is almost impossible to eat 100% “clean” which is unfortunate
i hear also stories from american girls who cant get their period anymore and have to take medications for it. But when they travel to Europe or going to live in europe. all problems disappear. They can get periods again and they dont have to take medications. or people who eat american food who get sick from it. but when they eat the exact same food in europe they have no problems what so ever. this shows exactly how much chemicals and what not americans consume. Food in the EU got a way higher standard. no food outside of the EU can be Imported in europe. So that counts for american food as well like cheese and meat. o also people in america can be immune to antibiotics. why? well like you hear america uses tons of antibiotics in milk and meat. things that we dont do in europe. well we do use antibiotics but its so little that it doesnt have any affect on the human body so we wont get immune to antibiotics. which lead to more medication consumptions hence the high opioid crisis you have in the US. things like this are pretty much none existent in europe.
Alot of people in Britain now are Worried about Food Standards, now we have Left the EU , But Britain already had very high Food Standards in its own country, Infact Britain Followed all regulations regarding Food and Found other EU countries didn't. Which was pointed out straight away, The backlash in Britain 🇬🇧 would be massive in Britain if they were Lowered.
no worries about that, food will stay good as long as we have NHS. more unhealthy population later on : more cost , for profit healthcare, like usa food quality would fall, as big company's lobby the rules. we still have the same safety and can continue that eu or not. long term we could see more options on our shelves and if we can by pass eu waters no eu tax so cheaper food more options. we already have good cheap food costs compared to many EU country's and the usa
Yes, pigs are treated much more humanely in Europe. I did a presentation at work on this and the extensive studies carried out to make sure the pigs are not stressed and are calm and relaxed at the abattoir prior to slaughter. If the pigs are stressed, it affects the pH levels of the meat and therefore the quality, colour, taste etc.
As you say at the beginning most humans have been intolerant to lactose. But European and probably around Mediterranee see begun to use more milk and cheese. So selections make this area more adapt and less intolerant to lactose. So in Asia they remain for most intolerant perhaps except the mongols who make lots of cheese from horses.
Also you can now exclude mountain drew from the list, because they decided to change the product some months ago. They changed it because of an customer pressure.
It's more that the mutation that lets some process milk sugar originated in northern Europe and have spread from there. USA mostly descending from northern and western Europe means that many have this mutation. Countries far away with little contact with Europe like Japan are people mostly lactose intolerant.
Food wars would be great for you guys to react to. They compare the US fast food restaurants portion sizes and ingredient list vs EU or Asian countries. The most staggering part is always the ingredient difference in the end, you’ll be in for a shock with the US. Its worse than you can imagine 😁
As a EU citizen it's better to walk with caution than to run into a dark room and not know what's in that room.
I’m from the UK and tried proper American Mountain Dew, that’s banned over here.
It was horrible. It didn’t taste like lemon lime, it tasted artificial and chemically to me.
Here in Germany we have something very similar to Thanksgiving. It's called "Erntedankfest" ("harvest festival"). It's way earlier and doesn't have controversial history i guess. It's really just about getting food 😂😅
I don't know it thanks.
Very old (and no longer recognized) in the Netherlands as well: Dankdag voor het gewas = day to give thanks for the harvest.
In the protestant churches and in orthodox-protestant areas of The Netherlands there is an evening church service on the second Wednesday in March for the Prayer Day for Crops and Labour and on the first Wednesday of November there is Thanksgiving for Crops and Labour. Some protestant employers close their business on that day, but this is diminishing rapidly because of securalization.
I'm in the UK (65) and was brought up as a Catholic (although not religious now). But as a kid, we had 'Harvest Festival' at church and school. We would take excess food (tins etc.) from home to donate to helping the less fortunate and elderly of the area. TBH, I just has to check it's 'still a thing', and yes it is in the UK... 😎
As a UK guy, the host speaks in his 'TV voice' in his videos. No one in this country speaks that way in real life. It's just like multiple US TV presenters speak in their TV voice on their tiktok channels. Also, in the UK, it is very difficult to get antibiotics from your GP, because as the host said, overuse of the drug reduces its effectiveness as the bacteria develop resistance to it.
The beauty of the current trade war in food between the EU and the United States isn't only that it restricts the EU from exporting to the US, but it also denies Americans from having an alternative to the hormone infused and over-chemically treated local foods are your only choice.
9:05 That's not true - lifestock does get treated with antibiotics as well in Europe. The difference is that we treat animals with antibiotics when they have infections - in the USA on the other hand they are fed huge quantities of antibiotics without having any infections that would require the usage of antibiotics. This is really bad because it affects the animal health negatively actually (antibiotics have negative effects on the bacteria that are part of the digestive systems) while at the same time making harmful bacteria more and more resiliant to antibiotics.
Another side effect is that meat sold in the USA does in fact oftentimes have trace amounts of antibiotics still in it which means the humans take antibiotics without being ill or even aware what they are doing.
9:40 That differs from region to region. Here in Europe only about 5 % of the population are lactose intolerant while in East Asia about 85 % of all people are lactose intolerant. The rest of the world is somewhere in between.
10:10 Soy "milk" is called milk but it is not. Milk is exclusively produced by the mammal glands of mammals (humans included). The so-called soy milk on the other hand is plant based and is therefore not milk by the very definition of the term milk.
Speaking of the different approaches: In Europe we ban stuff until it is proven that it is healthy and safe. In the USA everything is allowed until humans have been killed by the stuff and even then the US regulatory bodies usually don't do anything usefull unless there's a public outcry because something has gone viral.
Was anyone else a bit “face palm” after the cow one where he’d just described the problem quite clearly was growth hormone being banned, which in turn leads to mastitis which therefore has to be kept under control with antibiotics and we then got a discussion along the lines of “I don’t understand what they do about that in Europe”.
Her: “So you’re saying like in like Europe they’re not giving them antibiotics, so like what’s the difference?” -Him “Well, maybe there’s a certain chemical they’re not giving the cows over there which doesn’t cause so much inflammation.”
Her “I just want to know what the difference is”
Him “I dunno it’s not something that’s taught to us…let us know if you guys know.”
It’s like the moment antibiotics were mentioned they completely forgot the first part of a clip. Maybe it’s just me but I thought it was really weird! It had all just been clearly explained and they instantly forgot.
Anyway…
Here in Germany, many products advertise that they contain no artificial colors. Does that not exist at all in the USA?
in the US there's almost no food stuffs sold that don't contain some form of chemical additives to provide more colour/longevity etc to them, the only time you will find that is in things that are sold small scale by people making the stuff themselves from scratch at home or similar, pretty much everything sold on a large scale in the US is basically illegal in the vast majority of the rest of the world.
It does not really matter if the US is not happy about the bans on exports of all kinds of foods to the EU. The EU politicians just cannot allow it, because the population would never accept it.
Food culture and the quality of food are such important cultural issues here as are consumer rights that they would be mass demonstrations against it (like there were when the EU and the US were negotiating the TTIP trade deal and it got out that the US wanted GMO food import rights without allowing the EU to label the products as containing GMO).
Portuguese here. For me, November 24th is just another day and I really don't pay much attention to your celebrations, apart from watching americans living in Portugal nervously trying to make their traditional Thanksgiving dinner with portuguese ingredients, just to find out that they can and in some cases, with better results. 😄
The states chooses cheaper short cuts rather than more healthier but more expensive processes. Checkout the UK Vs USA McDonalds comparison video it’s shocking, the same product have such different ingredients.
unhealthy short cuts are cheaper if you're not the one paying for medical expenses
I am severely allergic to Azo Dyes. These were eventually banned while the UK was part of the EU. Since Brexit the UK is not conducting adequate checks on imports due to a shortage of trained personnel. Recently I had an allergic reaction because these Azo dyes are once more being imported to the UK - illegally presumably - but the government of the day is notorious for changing regulations without advertising the fact. Chickens are fed these azo dyes to make their egg yolks more colourful. Ergo I am once again obliged to buy only organic eggs. Needless to say, reading glasses are once more in my handbag (purse) & eating out is once more a risky endeavour. Sign petitions, write to your MP (congressman) make a fuss - you are worth better. Workers are people not robots. Protect people - demand that governments actually govern. Anything less is a gross dereliction of duty.
Azo dyes may contain any 'of more than 20 carcinogenic amines' known to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. These carcinogens have been banned in China, Japan, India, Vietnam, and the European Union and in the UK. They are NOT used in chicken feed, as any farm or egg production outlet found using them would be closed. All egg production BOTH organic and 'commercial' adjust the colour of egg yolks by altering the 'feed'. This is done by what the chickens are fed and (ultimately) eat. In organic farming, chickens fed on corn feed, produce a certain yellow colour, while those fed on grass, another shade. The colour of egg yolks within Europe (including the UK) are NOT standard and can vary greatly. The most common feeds used in hens diet, will contain (but not limited to); Carotenoids, which are natural pigments found in plants that give them their yellow or orange colour. The darker colour in the yolks come from carotenoids called xanthophylls, which are found in dark, leafy greens such as kale, collards, broccoli and spinach. Additionally, most hens that are brought up as 'free range' are more likely to be omnivorous than vegetarian; pastured chickens will eat bugs, grubs, worms etc. Hens who are given feed full of yellow-orange pigments will also lay eggs with darker yolks. It's as simple as that! No artificial colouring is allowed in chicken feed, but some farmers will add marigold petals to give egg yolks an orangey color boost. Reddish yolks are made possible by adding capsicum (i.e. red bell peppers) to chicken feed, and throwing in a dash of paprika can have the same effect. Thus, 'feed pellets' given to the majority of UK 'egg layers', MOST often contain peppers, marigolds and paprika base additives for the yolk colour. Certainly NOT Azo Dyes and I hope the above helps you realise that it is unlikely you had a reaction to any egg colouring!?
As a matter of interest when I was in the UK RAF back in the 90s I was sent to Red Flag at Nellis airbase near Vegas. I tried Mountain Dew there and absolutely loved it, on coming back to the UK I found that Mountain Dew was now being sold in many outlets when I enthusiastically bought some and tried it it tasted different! I was disappointed to say the
Least then I found out about the additive that they had in the US version so I wasn’t so annoyed.
They give hormones to the cows to make them produce more milk but that makes them prone to cystitis so they give them antibiotics.
They have to filter out the blood clots that get into the milk caused by cystitis that escaped the antibiotics.
When I'm in the states I always check the milk carton to make sure it's not from hormone fed cows.
Enjoy your cereal 👍
The antibiotics pass to humans through milk and other dairy products, lessening our own immune response to antibiotics when we need it.
In Australia and New Zealand, and no doubt many other countries there are strict laws governing animal welllbeing and humane treatment. As well as strategies in place to reduce the use of anti-biotics. For example, lamb exports include traceability of everything about the animals life and treatment, which of course means a premium price to market in Europe.
If you find Simon hard to keep up with, us Aussies generally speak fast.
24:30 here in Denmark we also have chicken(also eggs) and pork getting produced treating the animals relatively badly. But not as bad as it used to be.
Also we have got a lot more products called “frilands”, Where the animals walk outside, it’s also mass production.
But besides the animals have got a better life, they also go and find a lot of bugs and worms, that result in then containing more healthy fatty acids.
It is more expensive, but a good part of the population don’t mind paying more.
Btw we can buy US produced beef, it’s probably made different to the mainstream beef on the US market. Still I would not buy it, even though it’s probably better tasting and then most of the beef we produce by ourselves.
When it comes to antibiotics in meat, it’s not that much better in many European countries.
In the US there are about 150 mg antibiotics per kilo meat.
In Germany: about 90 mg per kilo meat
Denmark: about 35 mg per kilo meat
Spain and Italy: about 180 mg per kilo meat
Norway:
About 5 mg per kg meat
Island:
About 8 mg per kilo meat
Sweden:
About 10 mg per kilo meat
This also includes fish
Norway is the country in Europe with least amount of antibiotics in meat.
As a farmer I know this.
We don’t give antibiotics to animals to prevent sickness, we only give it if they’re sick.
And if they are given antibiotics we can’t send them to the slaughter house until there’s no antibiotics left.
The rules are very strict when it comes to animal health 👍
I am French and I am 60 years old, I have always drunk a lot of milk, eaten a lot of raw milk cheese, yogurts, cottage cheese, etc....and never any problem. I don't know anyone around me who has problems with dairy products, perhaps because we consume them all our lives.
The reason the US uses so many antibiotics on livestock is due to the conditions that animals are kept in. In Europe, livestock is free to graze in real fields and eat real grass. In the US, animals are often packed into sheds and fed man-made food that contains all sorts of growth hormones. This means that animal diseases spread far more quickly in cramped conditions. It is this aspect of animal husbandry that is of real concern to the EU. That is why they ban meat imports from countries that mistreat animals this way.
The anti biotics are used by US farmers because they have an extremely poor hygiene practices, so the animals are pumped full of antibiotics.much of which passes into the US food chain.
In Canada, we celebrate Thanksgiving in October, it's just a harvest festival for us
same here in germany
We Nordics can do more dairy than most other etnics 😎🇧🇻
Because we don't have all kinds of stuff put into the dairy and the animals producing milk.
As a Swiss, I'd say: hold my milk!
I'm not at all Nordic but I can do more milk than I actually need :) I drink a lot as it's one of my favorite foods, and have zero problems whatsoever.
about sugar - I would recommend you a book about it, if you wanted to cry to sleep :) "Glucose Revolution" - in short, the sugar is sugar, if it's crystalized, syrup, honey...in the body the sugar act the same. Anyway, it's a lot of science in the book and it's about alimentation habits too. Hope it helps. And by the way, have a great weekend!
Thank you!
Yes, all sugar is bad, I hear many people saying "well it's natural sugar, it's fruit sugar, it's bla bla..." like this lovely girl is saying in this video [ I'm sorry, I watched many of your videos, I'm just terrible with names :( ]. Any type of sugar, be it natural, processed, bleached, etc will break into glucose in our blood. It's true that we do need sugar but not the amount we ingest daily. Also, natural sugar is a bit better because it doesn't have all the added processing/chemicals, but it's still dangerous if consumed the way most people do.
The best meal my wife and I have ever had was in Sierra Leone when visiting a Sierra Leonean soldier I had helped train in 2000. We visited him in 2011 and stayed with him and his family for a week, the food was amazing, even our two boys loved it. I saw him again during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, he was had become a Major, and kept telling me to call him Sir, he got two words instead. At the moment we are trying to get the needed documents for him and his family to come and visit us, our wives want a cook off, this won't end well 😐
In the EU and UK, products especially meat have strict storage standards that’s traceable so if there’s food poisoning, it’s easier to find the source. This rule can only be implemented in countries where local businesses are strictly monitored and the workers are highly trained. Like all UK businesses dealing with food are required that staff to have annual training on food hygiene. And all staff care about their health and their family’s they would want to follow the rules.
In the US, you are literally eating meat grown using chemicals and your pork comes from disabled pigs which is sad. In the EU and UK, farm animals must be either free range (roaming freely on land) or farmed but with strictly inspected conditions such as square meter minimum
per animal to allow free movement , light and with less stress. I remember a friend doing masters degree in livestock and they’d examine cortisol levels (stress hormone detectors) in farm animals to develop a best practice guidance for the UK government on farm enclosures, free range farm designs and also other factors like lighting, shade, temperature and interaction dynamics between people and other animals.
The difference is: It is actually cheaper to feed cows antibiotics en mass, just as a precaution, just in case they would get inflammation. On the other hand in EU the focus is on treating cows with antibiotics, only if there is an actual medical problem, which requires that, while trying to prevent any medical issues by safer and cleaner environment for cows so that they don't develop inflammations in the first place. Because if you trat any human (or animal) by antibiotics, the bacteria in them will eventually develop and mutate into one that is resistant to the antibiotics ... And then antibiotics stop working. And when such a bacteria spreads, you get patients dyeing from simple infections just because the bug is resistant to antibiotics. We have very little medical tool how to fight bacteria and infections besides antibiotics. If they stop working (which is already happening quite commonly in the hopitals), then we go back to the state before 1940s where a simple infection was causing people having limbs amputated and dying from relatively simple things and any small injury like could likely kill you. Even a splinter in your finger.
23:34 that stare to camera is priceless, I cracked up 🤣
On the antibiotics: US milk and meat producers use growth hormones to force faster growth in animals, or make cows produce artificially higher yields of milk. These hormones cause higher levels of various serious infections.... so they give the animals antibiotics. In the EU, many hormones are banned, so the animals don't need to be given any antibiotics. Hope this helps. :)
21:30 wait U get you salmon in pokeballs ?
I wonder what Dr Oak would say about that...😂
I was once told, don't know how true this is, but in France they tend to sell only fresh bread.
The colour of sugar can be because of several things, added syrups, like in dark brown sugars, or because what the sugar is made of, beet sugar looks and tastes very differently than cane sugar, or corn sugar, etc.
In the netherlands we dont clean our water pipes with chlorine its not needed our water is clean enough not to be washed with chlorine. some countries in europe do like france for example UK as well. hence the reason their water taste like chlorine. our dutch water doesnt have that what so ever. its fresh from production to your tap at home. thats why our water is seen as one of the best and cleanest water in the world. Bottled water is not needed to be bought in the netherlands because our tap water is even cleaner then most bottled water brands. about chicken and also eggs in america. they claim that they remove salmonella bacteria as well but thats a lie. raw chicken always have salmonella thats why you have to cook it well.
I'm English, the water I drink and use doesn't taste like chlorine. It tastes like water.
I second this - I come from a region with claenest natural water in the Central Europe so usually water tastes like trash everywhere but in the NL this isnt the case.
We have been taking or prescribing antibiotics for people to much, alot of the cases they can be treated another way. If you have took certain antibiotics already for something you didn't need to, there is a higher chance they won't help you as much/or at all when you really do need them; that's the problem sadly. I love your reactions to these videos.
Growth hormone fed to cows & pigs can cause mastitis, which is an infection of the udders which can cause a loss of milk production, so antibiotics are given to the animals to counter the mastitis, this can inturn lead to the possibility of bacteria developing tolerance to the antibiotics which could be passed on to human infections.
The issue is that the FDA approves anything unless it has been proven harmful, whereas the EU says you need to prove it is NOT harmful. Food manufacturers in the EU spend millions to prove additives are safe before they can use them, but there’s no incentive for American food producers to test additives as they can use them without proof they are safe, and the millions spent on testing may prove it’s not safe, so why would they do it?
24:01 actually, yes, even the animals are treated better than in the US.
I'm from the Netherlands, we aren't stuck in a 2 party system and we actually have a political party: Party of the Animals, who helped created a lot more/better regulations for animal treatment.
I dare to say....you never tastend milk.
Drive to a milkcow farm....stop...and ask for a bottle. Bring the bottle.
Then taste iT.
You love iT.
On the way back...find a bakery
You use "like" very often XD
In general I would say that Brits sound more classy, serious and distinguished, Americans sound like relaxed cowboys, the way you pronounce the vowels is so slangish because you never pronounce them openly, which gives the impression that you are chewing gum while talking if that makes sense? Australians sound like a mixture between Brits and Americans, they are quite British but in a relaxed way with some funny sounds in between. Also very laid back.
South Africans sound also more British but also in a less strict and distinguished way but different that Australians.
I think American and British English sounds so different that I couldn't say English in general sounds like anything specific. Especially because you have dialects within American English and British English etc too. Scottish English for example sounds very comforting and London English way more serious. To me at least, I'm a Swiss German speaker. Swiss German also sounds more like a farmer language to Germans I guess XD And also a bit like Dutch.
In Norway, we have more strict rules about antibiotics to animals than the rest of Europe. We are not in the EU.
In case of antibiotics. EU generally tries to keep minimize use of antibiotics especially in livestock, which requires them to be more healthy. This is because antibiotics is one of the chief medicine we use to treat massive variety of infections and disease. If livestock gets antibiotics a lot, they could start producing extremely antibiotic resistant diseases, which could then mutate and jump to humans. Meaning we would be helpless against it with current antibiotics.
In fact, this has already happened, I know of one time recently, but I guess it has happened in past too.
I should say that Skittles isn't outright banned in European countries. I can buy Skittles here in Norway, but I'm guessing the ingredients are different, so the US version of Skittles was banned. Also, McDonald's uses different ingredients and has different fat, salt and sugar contents in its food in other countries. Here in Norway, for example, the US version of McDonald's would be considered unfit for human consumption. Americans who've tried McDonald's in other countries say it tastes different (better).
Skittles used to be a thing we did buy at tax free shop when going to Denmark or at the airport. But it has been in Norway since 2018, I guess they changed some colors.
McD should not be considered fit for human consumption anywhere in the world.
There's Skittles here in Sweden aswell.. but it's possible the ingredients have been changed for it to be able be sold here.
The ingredients are different.
When it comes to slaughtering animals for consumption, here in The Netherlands there are strict laws that it has to be done "humain" where the animal doesnt suffer. Of course it isnt perfect and some say it isnt enough, but a lot of pratices have been banned. We also have laws in place that slaughter animals also are being treated well and things like forced tube feeding are banned. We also are the firt country in the world who has a political party for the well being for animals; who do hold a few seats in the Dutch parlement.
Antibiotic use in livestock is the article you might want to read in Wikipedia.
We still use certain antibiotics here in the UK but we cannot send them to market until 28 days have passed from the last injection. we also used to have to either inject our chickens or put antibiotics in their water, this is now banned but we have to swab our chickens butts and send the swabs to be tested and cannot sell them until the results are clear. all the best Rab
Antibiotics are used for livestock in Europe as well. Although there are some new regulations that forbid the use of certain antibiotics for animals in general so there are reserved for humans only. But in Europe there still is the problem of massive overuse of antibiotics for livestock. There are certain aspects to the problem. General use of antibiotics as a preventive measurement. Antibiotics were and maybe sometimes are still used like food, which is totally stupid and is just because companies don't care and ruthlessly wanna optimize profits. But even if you don't do that we use to many anitbiotics. Not only for livestock but for humans as well. There are enough doctors that prescribe antibiotics just in case, which is not good. This happens for livestock as well. But e.g. for colds often times it is not clear whether it is a bacterial or viral infection. It would be better to check if it is really a bacterial infection first, so you won't give antiobiotics for no good reason. And most of the time humans can handle it by themselves anyway. Maybe you are sick a bit longer, but this overuse is really problematic. Of course there are a lot of cases where antibiotics are necessary.
Resistent bacteria are becoming more and more of a problem in hospitals. This might lead to huge step back in our medical care.
Guys, seriously, what do they teach you at school in the US?
I learned from the 7th grade on in 1989 that they give „healthy“ (they are never really healthy in that environment…) animals antibiotics to prevent them from having diseases, and because chickens pick each other (the caves are too small and this is a stress reaction) so they have open wounds, which can cause inflammation and the chickens can’t be eaten.
This is why I stopped eating meat when I was 12 for 14 years, now I just eat meat that is organic and only once every two weeks.
This isn’t new info. This is actually common knowledge in Germany, even if you don’t care about animals and food…
Hi, small suggestion is to rewind a bit after pausing, so you get into it again and don't miss anything :)
In regard to your question about US food (specificial meat) exports, Hasan Minhaj made a video about the whole topic two years ago: ruclips.net/video/kmo6lZcdkO0/видео.html
I don't know if there are copyright issues with reacting to a (sadly canceled) netflix show but it's definitly worth a look.
I’d definitely be happy to watch you react to other types of content, especially as it seems with a lot of these types you end up feeling disappointed/low. It would be great to see some upbeat content that you’re into
Sounds good! Thanks for your comment :)
If you realised, it all comes down to this. Laws and limits actually provide freedom. When everything is unregulated you lose your freedom because anyone can take advantage of you. Pretty much like kids which need boundaries and grow up healthier that way
Call that food poisoning? Hah! Whilst in Hong Kong for a couple of weeks work, I was taken out for lunch and I had a simple chicken and rice dish. A couple of hours later I had to ditch a meeting and ended up almost paralysed from puking in the bathroom and had to ask for help. I was taken to hospital and I was barfing so hard and consistently that I was actually given an X-Ray to see if I had damaged my insides. After a night on the ward on a drip, I felt well enough to go back to the hotel. The following morning, I woke up extremely ill again. This lasted for several days. I eventually checked out and went to stay with a friend whose Chinese wife and mother looked after me with soups. I slept most of the day and night shivering even in the hot Hong Kong weather. I flew back home after a few days more but the after effects (such as a severe loss of balance) lasted for another three weeks until I caught the flu and spent a couple of days in bed. After this I suddenly felt well and my sense of balance returned. I can only guess that I had eaten a virus (not a bacteria) of some sort and that my body fought off the flu and the other virus. I have not eaten chicken since.
WOW! Happy you’re okay, that sounds terrifying !
Check out the difference in McDonald's UK menu and the US and chemicals added. Eggs are not refrigerated in UK and Europe. Laying hens are inoculated against salmonella so the eggs don't need refrigeration. Eggs in the US are chlorine washed which removes the egg shell outer protection hence they need to be refrigerated.
That’s very interesting. We will definitely do some research! Thanks !
@@loners4life Yes, I always found US eggs strange, so white and clean and regular... Over here I can actually get feathers and poop on the eggs when I buy them in supermarkets. It doesn't bother me at all since I wash it anyways before cooking, and it shows it's not processed too much. We also have many shades of yellow/orange shells, not just bright white (maybe there are different colors also in US, but in movies/videos they are always white).
Regarding sugar the UK have introduced a sugar tax, but I think in other European countries they've banned added sugar or heavily taxed it. Also the UK is a small island so we don't tend to have very big farms like the US have. We have various programs on TV covering farming and country life, such as Spring/Autumn watch, Countryfile, Our Yorkshire Farm and This Farming Life.
There is no such thing as a sugar tax!
In Spain we have a soda drinks tax. It's a variation of your sugar tax.
@@BP-kx2ig sugary and carbonated drinks: sprite, cola, fanta, chocolate milkshakes...
@@BP-kx2ig The soft drinks industry levy (SDIL) is a levy applied to UK-produced or imported soft drinks containing added sugar. So far it’s raised over £334 million. Sounds like a tax to me. 😉
Just saying.. again!
EU is a union of independent states/countryes, with there own laws/regulations.. and its set up to promote freedom of movment of goods, workforce, services and investments!
Soo, then we need to come up with some minimal standards that everyone put in there legislation!
To make it short, our population want safe and healty food, no chemicals and medecine for longer shelf life or extra profit for the companyes!
On top of this, one can make healty food in a lot of our contryes by rising the healt standard of crops and animals.
Soo, there is farmers and companyes assosiateded to them how not want to be ruined by sub standar food competition.
Trump tried to sell chlorinated washed chicken to the UK. We said , no Thankyou.He thought that being apart from the EU, we would be buy from the USA. There was quite a backlash from the public. We check now when buying 🐔 chicken.
Atleast in north europe animal cruelty laws are quite strict and they make sure animals have enough space, food, shelter, sort of good life, and they are killed in a way it's least painful to them. There is also chemical report system where people fill report if they get allergic reaction from a product and those reports help keeping record if something should be researched to be harmful.
Of course we do have boxed food and also instant mashed potatoes. And if using salt, pepper, butter and herbs or mustard, they taste decent. Of course fresh is better, but for a quick meal it is okay. (I currently suffer from post-covid and can barely make the instant ones, let alone mash fresh potatoes.)
We are sorry to hear about your health :/ hope you heal sooner than later ❤
@@loners4life Currently I am not sure, if I get exhausted really quickly from being out of shape (was ill for a few weeks) or if it's long-covid. I am optimistic though :)
@@Ahui87 We do have instant mashed potatoes, but it does not contain the substance forbidden in the EU. They simply leave the banned stuff out and take a small profit loss due to shorter shelf life. Which sounds like a crime to a US business model :))
I will never eat a chlorin chicken and at home i go in my saltwater pool this is much better for the skin and eyes,Nice greetings from Austria in the middle of Europe!!
Tacksägelsedagen andra söndagen i oktober.❤
Chlorinated water washed chicken does change the flavour, and smell. But it isn't any more harmful than Table Salt. Before refrigeration foods used to be packed in salt. Salt dries the food out and kills microbes. In the absence of refrigeration it's a good means of food preservation. But with modern means available it's just cheaper and easier to treat everything just incase.
_One hundred grams of table salt contains 38,758mg of sodium. In addition, it also provides 24mg calcium, 8mg potassium, 2mg fluoride, 1mg magnesium, and less than 1mg iron, zinc, copper, manganese and selenium_
The body requires such compounds but the issue is with volume not consumption.
Another issue isn't with the chlorinated wash itself. It's the reasoning behind needing it. If you don't do it what make you require to take action and what for? If you do, do it how much is going undiscovered and when will you find out unhygienic practices in your supply chain?
Feed people things that can make them sick.
Watch them get addicted.
Watch them get sick.
Watch them take an extra day off from work.
Watch them get fired and lose their "good" health insurance.
Watch them get sicker and have to go to doctors.
Profit?
I am not 100% certain of this, but I think I read somewhere that it is possible to buy and eat very healthy food in USA. The downside is that it is so expensive that only a few % of Americans who can afford it on a regular basis.
This is true. There are farmers markets every weekend to buy more natural foods but the prices are much higher than at the grocery stores sadly.
That is because farm and food are industrialized in the western world and especially in the USA. Besides that there is the business model of pharmaceutical companies that sell the chemicals as food additives and hormones for animals are also manufacturing medicines and treatments for sick people, like cancer patients. It is like a flywheel, it accelerates more (money) after the company sells the chemical additive or hormone to the farmer, the animal gets inflammations and needs animal medication (antibiotics), the animal gets slaughtered and the meat gets sold and eaten and the people get sick (mostly cancer or inflammatory diseases) and the pharmaceutical company sells the drugs and other treatments to the hospital patient. And the circle is completed, they get profits from almost every part of this cycle, except the slaughter houses, supermarkets, hospitals and health insurance companies. So they pressure or bribe (by incentives, free samples or target bonuses) the parts of the circle they don’t own, in order to control the whole cycle. Something similar happens to GMO plant foods. It is happening in the US and that is sad and depressing. Don’t believe the advertisements of pharmaceutical companies in which they say they are responsible for feeding the (overpopulated) world or healing the sick. They are not the good guys, they are responsible for making people and animals sick and then make profit out of them. That is ruthless.
Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish and other Nordic European people are not so much lactose intolerant since we have a genetic mutation that makes dairy food easy to digest.
On Balkans we eat a lot of dairy food too.
Growth hormones are allowed in the US - explains why there are so many gutbuckets waddling around
i'm british and as a kid my mum wld never let me eat snacks/skittles that had those dyes in. Obvs compared to the US it's not much at all but yh some do. Another big reason that remainers (ppl who were against brexit) were remainers was cuz if we left the eu that meant our trade with other european countries wld be way more complicated and we might end up trading with the US and as we know, the US has loads of chemicals and dyes in the food. Non-brits like to generalise acting as if the whole country was for brexit when in reality it was 49% voted to remain and 51% to leave. Also 30% of the country didn't vote🤯🤯weirdos. Brexit split the country massively and still has, creating a massive divide. MOST (not all obvs) ppl that voted to leave were either racists who wanted to be all nationalist and they thought leaving the eu wld make us special or whatever; just plain stupid ppl who bought into the biased propaganda press we have in the uk; or ppl who genuinely just rlly liked the idea of brexit. So much of the country were sat on the fence with it that's why 30% didn't vote. If voting was mandatory we 100% wld not have left
The recent ish "fun" food scams that I remember are Horse meat with no mention of the equine content
And pork products with chicken added in order to allow the meat to absorb more water, so they didn't have to use as much actual meat, both caused a degree of uproar
One problem I am half expecting at some point is health issues with Vape (as far as I can tell they haven't actually investigated the side effects beyond "Its got to be better than smoking !")
Antibiotics are being used in cattle sheds bc of the living condiotions and density of livestock. If one animmal gets sick in an industrial farm it can spread the disease quicklyy to others and the licklyhood to get sick in one of those farms is high to begin with. So antibiotics are sometimes being feed to animals as a preventative measure.
About lactose intolerance: You're supposed to be lactose intolerant. We aren't when we're kids because mammals drink milk to grow. When you're older you're supposed to become lactose intolerant so you stop mooching off mama. Due to a genetic mutation, some people keep their tolerance as adults. They're mostly European but specifically of Nordic descent, where almost everyone is lactose intolerant.
Good news though, this doesn't apply to proper hard cheese, as the process of turning milk into cheese removes the lactose elements. Fresh cheese is another matter, which is why I can't have Philadelphia cheese. Bad news is eating a lot of cheese at the same time can cause constipation because it sort of acts like glue in your stomach. I'll take a bit of constipation if I can eat a bunch of cheese though.
Here's two videos I think you guys might enjoy. It's...on somewhat of a similar topic, presented by the same guy, Simon, on his other channel, in a more laid-back style.
Part One: ruclips.net/video/4YBnuMggylk/видео.html&ab_channel=BrainBlaze
Part Two: ruclips.net/video/su--rJRolK4/видео.html&ab_channel=BrainBlaze
Its simon! He also reads crimes/murder stories and reacts while he reads them! I love him! 😅😂
I think there are more inspections in the E U farming industries! Obviously not all farmers treat their animals decently, but there are serious fines for mistreatment of livestock!
That’s good to hear!