Guidelines from the Food and Drug Administration provide an interim reference level (IRL) for lead of 2.2 micrograms. The amount of lead found in these nuggets could be as much as five times higher than this IRL for children.
A recall was not requested because the products are no longer available for purchase. However, FSIS is concerned that some product may still be in consumers’ freezers.
You ate them already. Sorry.
—Walmart
Chipped up chicken is the perfect place to hide fillers and contaminants. Can anyone really be surprised that Walmart would add in crap to displace meat volume and save a buck?
If you can’t identify the cut of meat that it came from, you should expect that other shit is in it.
Trump: defunds FDA.
And that’s why most of my grocery shopping is done at Aldi and Lidl!
Aldi is the best. They are a life saver, idk why they don’t expand into more areas, they’ve a great business model. And while idk how they treat their suppliers of food, they actually treat their employees better than any other grocer chain in the US. That I am familiar with.
Fortunate to have HEB in Texas. They treat their employees and their customers really well, also, and totally keep out all that Safeway nonsense. Aldi is rapidly expanding in the US, they have stores all over Texas, too
HEB is the best!
I did see and confirm, unfortunately, that Aldi is also using digital price displays, but I don’t have any evidence to confirm if they’re using variable pricing like Walmart.
This is deregulation. We inspect our own facilities and of something is found, we optimize for the stockholders.
Lots of kids died eating penny candy and adulterated milk, maybe occasionally adding a hand or arm to the sausage.
This time there’s lots of ag gag laws in place so we may not even get another Upton Sinclair.
Hell all the deregulation is probably why Gen x has butts filled with cancer.
Gotta get the lead back in American children now to create the Republican voters of tomorrow
My county has refused to test our water supply for lead since 2023.
Guess my state.
Livid?
Can’t have lead deficiency in the younger generation. It might lead them to actually think /s
We need to stop normalizing industrial food production and instead grow our own food.
Industrial food production allows roughly 1-2% of workers to grow food for the other 98%. It is basically the foundation of modern civilization. It allows almost all persons, the majority of regions, even nations to be net importers of food either temporarily due to mischance or permanently due to specialization.
Taking this away would collapse modern civilization as effectively as if you literally nuked everyone with the death toll being similar. Worse people don’t react well to starving to death so the rest would probably mostly kill each other other ways.
The medieval society that emerged would produce little art or science but lots of potatoes and grains to support the much smaller total population.
We’re not talking about “return to monke” type bullshit here. There are other ways.
From Permaculture Food Forests to aquaponic warehouse farms, we can do better than… Whatever this lead-riddled hell is.
How do you solve the carbon footprint issue of everyone needing their own car?
We dont need cars. Cars is actually part of the unwellness. Cars require overproduction and death regardless of whether we use fossil or electrical fuel. If we just look at the local cost of cars: · they are taking away space from our communities tyat could be used to gather, helping wildlife and grow food · they normalize long distance travelling, and therefore weakening local communities · they are making our societies unsafe in the sense that we cant let children play outside · they are at odds with samlife in the sense that they are endangering wildlife.
The great thing about humans is that we are very adaptable. We arent naturally dependent on cars. We dream, and we do. So if we dream of a carfree society, we can in fact do it.
So we have busses going along every rural farm road? Sure, bud.
no buses
How do things and people get between places?
Through slow transportation. This would gradually be realized as people start to take stewardship for their local communities. As we grow our own food to an increasing degree, our need to travel long distances will be reduced more and more.
So you just never visit family or spend time with friends? You want a mandatory hermit life for everyone?
we need to take care of Earth
we cant go on like this
cars are killing the planet
And what happens when someone has a heart attack? Too bad so sad?
Industrial food production is fine with proper regulations and oversight.
We don’t, and won’t, have that though. Capitalism is fine with proper guidance and oversight too. But we don’t have that.
So unless we do it ourselves. we are poisoned.
You can actually buy healthy food. Chicken wads shaped like dinosaurs were probably never the best option.
You absolutely cannot buy healthy food if you are 95% of the population. I do not know what world do you think you are living in but it is not that one, it is this one and everything is poisoned. Everything. Sweet dreams.
However I do agree that chicken loaf is not the best option.
That’s so America lol
No one can convince me that the combination of lead in gasoline AND the car depend infrastructure of the US is not at least a factor in the world we have today. I really think it’s contributed to the boomer brain and to an extent the Gen X brain to a large degree.
This isn’t to say it’s not the only cause. The main factor still being capitalism rewarding psycho behavior combined with it has definitely brought us to a really really bad place.
Preach it, brother. Americans (and the collective west) got shafted hard with the raw end of the sick when it came to capitalism and its propensity to ignore health and safety, all in the name of profits for the Epstein class.
Food safety has never been one of our strong points.
Hell, people probably ate healthier in the past.
America has serious problems across the board, not just food.
It’s really one of the most America things I’ve ever read. I’m fortunate to live in a city in the US, so have no issue avoiding Walmart like the plague, but most of rural America probably bought these nuggets and dropped their kids’ IQs even further
I’m fortunate to live in a city in the US
You forgot the “un” in “unfortunate”. Guess you ate the nuggets allready.
ahhh, here are your meat shaped patties of ground flesh, with a side of corn syrup, just as you ordered. Now gobble up your glyphosate, like a good little patriot
I don’t know if I’m more surprised the nuggets have lead in them, or that the FDA realised it was a bad thing, and actually warned people about them!
Seriously. How, the fuck, does LEAD get ANYWHERE NEAR food nowadays?
from the pipes, and metal manufacturing equipment.
lunchables recently were exposed to high lead levels, and many spices may contain lead.
Lead can be used to cheaply increase the weight of.a product. It is also used for whitening surfaces that benefit from that. Chinese manufacturers have been caught doing both many times, I would start with tracing the origin of this chicken.
Lead is in the soil, along with other heavy metals, pfas, and all sorts of shit, thousands of things. Including huge amounts of whatchacall it, flouride. I know you guys all trust that one, but it’s an industrial byproduct of aluminum smelting and is in the soil in high levels in places like where california raisens are grown. Also it’s a different molecule of flouride that the naturally occurring one. Sweet dreams.
I feel like this happens more often than it should.
It does. Because it costs less to be fined than to actually fix this shit.
First the radioactive shrimp, and now this. Fuckin’ Waltons…
And usually in the US compared to other western countries.
You ate them already. Sorry.
yup. several packages worth. no wonder they were closing them out at something like $2.00 a bag awhile back… they knew
Is nobody really going to push back on “Walmart knew there were traces of lead in their generic dino nuggets, and my evidence is that they clearanced them out one time a while back”? Mind you this was one lot code that we know of. Y’all are really about to make me defend Walmart and animal agriculture? Me? Why can’t this be about corporate negligence? Anemic regulation? The way animal agriculture is prone to this sort of problem? Anything that’s not obviously unfalsifiable bullshit?
You could just do what the rest of us did and nod your head and not defend walmart?
It’s not like walmart is above it, and it certainly isn’t like walmart needs you defending them.
They said they ate several bags of 'em, blame the lead poisoning.
Lead, swallow and get out of my way!
I’ve heard they’ve been rebranded as “Chicken Leadles”
“The sky is falling, just like our prices!”
Lead is cheaper than chicken, so they’re just deep-frying dinosaur-shaped cakes of lead now
By not containing meat but instead indigestible minerals, they’re actually closer in composition to what’s left of dinosaurs.
nervous tissue, and lymph glands.
🤤. Ngl, that’s what I want in my nuggies.
A careful examination of Walmart nuggets would probably conclude that the lead was the least harmful ingredient
Of course they are
