YSK that average or even lower quality meat from the EU would almost always be considered ‘premium’ by US standards. What Americans eat on a daily basis is straight up illegal in the EU. Leave it to the richest country on the planet to feed its citizens with literal poisoned trash.
Can confirm. The UK has some of the most delicious meat I’ve tasted, and I know for a fact that someone right now living in the EU cringed internally just reading this sentence lol
To expand on this example, people worry about the bleach when they hear this but it’s not used at dangerous levels as I remember it.
The issue is the meat is so disgusting in the first place it needs to be washed to not kill off its consumers. We don’t wash meat in Europe, because we have standards
To go even further, in Japan they have a breed of chicken so clean that it’s eaten as sushi. Here in the US, undercooked chicken or unwashed eggs are a salmonella risk - as is pretty much any other food due to contamination. There was a massive recall on lettuce a few years ago across the country for salmonella contamination.
are you buying the meat from a butcher that only sources from local farmers? If you can afford that, yeah it’s probably on par with what Euros can buy in a grocery store. If you can’t afford that, then it doesn’t really matter if you’re the one cooking it or not, the meat is gonna be low quality.
Most American cities no longer have local butchers, it’s not like Europe. Many are reliant on bigbox stores for their base necessities especially in rural areas. So it’s not even a class issue, it’s an accessibility issue. It’s the reason why companies started rolling out subscriptions like Butcher Box. You’d never see that sort of thing take off in Europe.
No, I live in an extremely shitty world where a majority of people are selfish idiots who only focus on their own bellies.
But I am Finnish and although (I find the country much more problematic than most would assume — vis-a-vis the population’s self-imposed authoritarianism), our food regulation isn’t too shabby.
Fat land: how Americans became the fattest people in the world
Reviewed by: Samuel Klein
Greg Critser… Fat land: how Americans became the fattest people in the world. 2004.University of California Press: Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston, Massachusetts, USA.224 pp. $24.00. ISBN: 0-618-16472-3 (hardcover).Inline graphic
We are in the midst of a national obesity crisis, and Americans are getting heavier. Today, about 65% of adults and 15% of children and adolescents in the US are overweight or obese.
Two thirds of adults are obese. that’s horrifying.
YSK that average or even lower quality meat from the EU would almost always be considered ‘premium’ by US standards. What Americans eat on a daily basis is straight up illegal in the EU. Leave it to the richest country on the planet to feed its citizens with literal poisoned trash.
Can confirm. The UK has some of the most delicious meat I’ve tasted, and I know for a fact that someone right now living in the EU cringed internally just reading this sentence lol
Nah the UK adopted EU food safety standards in full and didn’t get rid of them post brexit.
…yet.
Good to know! Canadians embarrass themselves copying America in this regard.
Soon US “beef” (may or may not contain animal protein) and US “nacho cheeze” (contains no dairy) will be all over the UKs shelves.
How do you think we became the richest country on earth? Capitalism run amok and fucking people over.
Why do you believe the USA is the richest country in the world?
You are without a doubt the country in the world with the most debt however.
Technically we are. It’s just very, VERY poorly distributed.
GDP (nominal), global economic output, total household wealth/assets…
Americans eat as if they had an excellent healthcare system. Or a healthcare system at all.
It’s the opposite: the state has no responsibility to heal anyone, so they don’t give a crap about prevention through regulation.
They eat exactly as the healthcare system they have.
“Freedom” means freedom from safety nets
Americans eat like they believe in God’s salvation.
Do you have a valid source for that claim?
Cheese wiz in cans, banned in Canada.
bleached chickens
To expand on this example, people worry about the bleach when they hear this but it’s not used at dangerous levels as I remember it.
The issue is the meat is so disgusting in the first place it needs to be washed to not kill off its consumers. We don’t wash meat in Europe, because we have standards
To go even further, in Japan they have a breed of chicken so clean that it’s eaten as sushi. Here in the US, undercooked chicken or unwashed eggs are a salmonella risk - as is pretty much any other food due to contamination. There was a massive recall on lettuce a few years ago across the country for salmonella contamination.
Do you think no one cooks or something?
Edit. Apparently cooking is bad if you’re American.
are you buying the meat from a butcher that only sources from local farmers? If you can afford that, yeah it’s probably on par with what Euros can buy in a grocery store. If you can’t afford that, then it doesn’t really matter if you’re the one cooking it or not, the meat is gonna be low quality.
Most American cities no longer have local butchers, it’s not like Europe. Many are reliant on bigbox stores for their base necessities especially in rural areas. So it’s not even a class issue, it’s an accessibility issue. It’s the reason why companies started rolling out subscriptions like Butcher Box. You’d never see that sort of thing take off in Europe.
Yes, grocery stores source food from local farms.
We don’t have animals made of corn sugar. You can dismount from your high horse.
I don’t see show cooking oversugared toxins is gonna make them less toxic.
You live in a perfect world don’t you?
No, I live in an extremely shitty world where a majority of people are selfish idiots who only focus on their own bellies.
But I am Finnish and although (I find the country much more problematic than most would assume — vis-a-vis the population’s self-imposed authoritarianism), our food regulation isn’t too shabby.
I do think that about the USA actually, yes.
What magical country are you from?
“the rest of the world” / “Europe” / “Nordics”
Take your pick.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC300778/
Two thirds of adults are obese. that’s horrifying.
Your moms horrifying
I would agree, but she can still walk herself to where she needs to go. Can yours?
That’s the lamest response I’ve ever heard lol
You can do better. Try again
So that’s a “no my mom doesn’t walk anymore”?
Two thirds of adults. Obese.
That’s facts you can’t deny nor pretend like the US is just one among many and not worse-off than say, my country? ;D
Warming food in microwave isn’t cooking.
Oh, ok, so you’re just a smug self-important asshole. Got it.