10 American Foods that are Banned in Other Countries

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  • Athena53
    Athena53 Posts: 717 Member
    Eeuw. I think I'm gonna become a vegetarian. On the other hand, it's legal to sell horse meat for human consumption in Germany as long as it's labeled as such!

    I'm surprised they didn't mention high-fructose corn syrup. Coke/Pepsi seem to be able to get away with it only in the US.
  • CattOfTheGarage
    CattOfTheGarage Posts: 2,745 Member
    I have no problem believing there are issues with additives and farming practices in the US. However, as I read this article I just kept thinking:

    'Citation needed... citation needed... citation needed...'

    Many sins are committed in the name of food mass production, but just as many are committed in the name of compelling copy, especially online.

    In other words don't believe everything you read, at least until you've checked out the source.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    I just spit all over my monitor and keyboard and I've only made it to the second food...
    Unfortunately, the gigantic human lab experiment is only about 10 years old, so we are likely decades away from tabulating the human casualties
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I have no problem believing there are issues with additives and farming practices in the US. However, as I read this article I just kept thinking:

    'Citation needed... citation needed... citation needed...'

    Many sins are committed in the name of food mass production, but just as many are committed in the name of compelling copy, especially online.

    In other words don't believe everything you read, at least until you've checked out the source.

    Ditto....
  • NikoM5
    NikoM5 Posts: 488 Member
    I consider myself well educated on the topic of GMOs so I know the negative health claims made under No 2, Genetically engineered papaya, are completely false. That puts the rest of the article in question. Ok... I just noticed the "source" of this information at the bottom of the article... Mercola and Real Pharmacy. Anything on Mercola should immediately be considered false.
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    This is one of the worst articles I've ever read.
  • hmg90
    hmg90 Posts: 314 Member
    If you google these, you'll find sources. However, some types of arsenic-based drugs are taken off the market. Way too late, though.
  • chineyLuv
    chineyLuv Posts: 130 Member
    . Mercola and Real Pharmacy. Anything on Mercola should immediately be considered false.

    By no means am I well educated on these things...so I'm curious........Why on Mercola?
  • MiloBloom83
    MiloBloom83 Posts: 2,724 Member
    No sources listed. Anti GMO banner at the top. Move along. Nothing to see here.

    You know, potatoes have arsenic in them. Naturally.
  • chezjuan
    chezjuan Posts: 747 Member
    I have no problem believing there are issues with additives and farming practices in the US. However, as I read this article I just kept thinking:

    'Citation needed... citation needed... citation needed...'
    This is one of the worst articles I've ever read.

    +1 to both. All I needed to see: Source: Mercola
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    . Mercola and Real Pharmacy. Anything on Mercola should immediately be considered false.

    By no means am I well educated on these things...so I'm curious........Why on Mercola?

    Joseph Mercola is a well-known purveyor of junk science. Denies that HIV causes AIDS, says microwaving food is dangerous, and all kinds of other total nonsense. Uses misinformation and lies to drive fear in order to sell books and page views.
  • RGv2
    RGv2 Posts: 5,789 Member
    IN, to get me through the morning tomorrow.
  • msf74
    msf74 Posts: 3,498 Member
    . Mercola and Real Pharmacy. Anything on Mercola should immediately be considered false.

    By no means am I well educated on these things...so I'm curious........Why on Mercola?

    http://www.quackwatch.com/11Ind/mercola.html
  • Dugleik
    Dugleik Posts: 125
    I have no problem believing there are issues with additives and farming practices in the US. However, as I read this article I just kept thinking:

    'Citation needed... citation needed... citation needed...'

    Many sins are committed in the name of food mass production, but just as many are committed in the name of compelling copy, especially online.

    In other words don't believe everything you read, at least until you've checked out the source.

    That was my reaction as well. In addition Australia and New Zealand have incredible strict import rules when it comes to food, so having them as an example isn't all that telling.
  • JoanaMHill
    JoanaMHill Posts: 265 Member
    Personally, my eyes rolled into the back of my head when I realized the article wasn't actually about food/chemicals in food that are only used in the US, but ones that happen to be used in the US but are banned in SOME other countries.

    America is teh evul.
  • da_bears10089
    da_bears10089 Posts: 1,791 Member
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  • thaynehansen
    thaynehansen Posts: 3
    I'm not buyin' what he's sellin'
  • mzenzer
    mzenzer Posts: 503 Member
    I have no problem believing there are issues with additives and farming practices in the US. However, as I read this article I just kept thinking:

    'Citation needed... citation needed... citation needed...'

    Many sins are committed in the name of food mass production, but just as many are committed in the name of compelling copy, especially online.

    In other words don't believe everything you read, at least until you've checked out the source.

    This article may lack citations, but it's common knowledge that a lot of this is true. For example, GMOs. Pretty much all of Europe bans them or at least requires them to be labeled as such, and many, many other countries do and you can find this information via various trustworthy news sources or the state in questions own official websites. It's all out there and easy to find.
  • Achrya
    Achrya Posts: 16,913 Member
    I have no problem believing there are issues with additives and farming practices in the US. However, as I read this article I just kept thinking:

    'Citation needed... citation needed... citation needed...'

    Many sins are committed in the name of food mass production, but just as many are committed in the name of compelling copy, especially online.

    In other words don't believe everything you read, at least until you've checked out the source.

    This article may lack citations, but it's common knowledge that a lot of this is true. For example, GMOs. Pretty much all of Europe bans them or at least requires them to be labeled as such, and many, many other countries do and you can find this information via various trustworthy news sources or the state in questions own official websites. It's all out there and easy to find.

    Too bad the article didn't feel like using any of those trustworthy and easy to find sources to back up what they were saying.
  • mzenzer
    mzenzer Posts: 503 Member
    I have no problem believing there are issues with additives and farming practices in the US. However, as I read this article I just kept thinking:

    'Citation needed... citation needed... citation needed...'

    Many sins are committed in the name of food mass production, but just as many are committed in the name of compelling copy, especially online.

    In other words don't believe everything you read, at least until you've checked out the source.

    This article may lack citations, but it's common knowledge that a lot of this is true. For example, GMOs. Pretty much all of Europe bans them or at least requires them to be labeled as such, and many, many other countries do and you can find this information via various trustworthy news sources or the state in questions own official websites. It's all out there and easy to find.

    Too bad the article didn't feel like using any of those trustworthy and easy to find sources to back up what they were saying.

    It's the Internet, not a college thesis. The writer of the article is not obliged to list sources. It's great if they do, but we as consumers should be capable of doing our own research. Just because this person didn't cite sources doesn't mean it's not true.
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    I have no problem believing there are issues with additives and farming practices in the US. However, as I read this article I just kept thinking:

    'Citation needed... citation needed... citation needed...'

    Many sins are committed in the name of food mass production, but just as many are committed in the name of compelling copy, especially online.

    In other words don't believe everything you read, at least until you've checked out the source.

    This article may lack citations, but it's common knowledge that a lot of this is true. For example, GMOs. Pretty much all of Europe bans them or at least requires them to be labeled as such, and many, many other countries do and you can find this information via various trustworthy news sources or the state in questions own official websites. It's all out there and easy to find.

    Too bad the article didn't feel like using any of those trustworthy and easy to find sources to back up what they were saying.

    It's the Internet, not a college thesis. The writer of the article is not obliged to list sources. It's great if they do, but we as consumers should be capable of doing our own research. Just because this person didn't cite sources doesn't mean it's not true.

    The writer of the article is a BS artist who is full of crap. There are no citations for half the crap he says.

    Anything Mercola says should be completely ignored.
  • mzenzer
    mzenzer Posts: 503 Member
    I really don't like Mercola either, but in this case, as least in regards to GMOs, the article is accurate. The information confirming that is everywhere you'd have to be blind on the Internet to not have seen it.
  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,273 Member
    function (booshwah)
    {
    if author="Mercola"
    then
    laugh
    ignore
    close page()
    }
    end function
  • Achrya
    Achrya Posts: 16,913 Member
    I have no problem believing there are issues with additives and farming practices in the US. However, as I read this article I just kept thinking:

    'Citation needed... citation needed... citation needed...'

    Many sins are committed in the name of food mass production, but just as many are committed in the name of compelling copy, especially online.

    In other words don't believe everything you read, at least until you've checked out the source.

    This article may lack citations, but it's common knowledge that a lot of this is true. For example, GMOs. Pretty much all of Europe bans them or at least requires them to be labeled as such, and many, many other countries do and you can find this information via various trustworthy news sources or the state in questions own official websites. It's all out there and easy to find.

    Too bad the article didn't feel like using any of those trustworthy and easy to find sources to back up what they were saying.

    It's the Internet, not a college thesis. The writer of the article is not obliged to list sources. It's great if they do, but we as consumers should be capable of doing our own research. Just because this person didn't cite sources doesn't mean it's not true.

    It means they're either lazy or lying. Neither are traits I find particularity appealing nor do they make for an article I will consider as more than trash.

    But if you feel like sources are never needed that's fine. I'll keep sticking to things written by people who take the 60 seconds to type out/copy and paste where they got their information from. To each their own.
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    I really don't like Mercola either, but in this case, as least in regards to GMOs, the article is accurate. The information confirming that is everywhere you'd have to be blind on the Internet to not have seen it.

    He says a lot of stuff about GMOs in that article, and most of it is BS.
  • fruttibiscotti
    fruttibiscotti Posts: 986 Member
    Agreed that citations are needed.

    Here's a quick rundown on the article's list of banned ingredients, and countries/geographies that ban them.

    1) farm raised salmon (Australia, New Zealand)
    2) Genetically modified papaya (European Union)
    3) Ractopamine-tainted meat (it causes reduction of fat content in cattle, pigs and turkeys) (Europe, Russia, China)
    4) bromated vegetable oils (BVO), found in citrus flavoured drinks like Mountain Dew, (Europe and Japan)
    5) artificial food color and dyes (Norway and Austria)
    6) arsenic laced chicken (makes them grow faster and meat appear pinker), (European Union)
    7) bread with potassium bromate, for potassium enrichment (Canada, China, European Union)
    8) olestra or olean (man made oil), (UK and Canada)
    9) BHT and BHA, preservative (European Union and japan)
    10) dairy product containing rBGH (growth hormone), (Australia, New Zealand, Israel, European Union, Canada)

    I'd be interested to know if you live in one of the areas listed above and see a chemical that is not banned as per the list.
  • mzenzer
    mzenzer Posts: 503 Member
    Agreed that citations are needed.

    Here's a quick rundown on the article's list of banned ingredients, and countries/geographies that ban them.

    1) farm raised salmon (Australia, New Zealand)
    2) Genetically modified papaya (European Union)
    3) Ractopamine-tainted meat (it causes reduction of fat content in cattle, pigs and turkeys) (Europe, Russia, China)
    4) bromated vegetable oils (BVO), found in citrus flavoured drinks like Mountain Dew, (Europe and Japan)
    5) artificial food color and dyes (Norway and Austria)
    6) arsenic laced chicken (makes them grow faster and meat appear pinker), (European Union)
    7) bread with potassium bromate, for potassium enrichment (Canada, China, European Union)
    8) olestra or olean (man made oil), (UK and Canada)
    9) BHT and BHA, preservative (European Union and japan)
    10) dairy product containing rBGH (growth hormone), (Australia, New Zealand, Israel, European Union, Canada)

    I'd be interested to know if you live in one of the areas listed above and see a chemical that is not banned as per the list.

    This was on Australia's state site. Looking for one specific to Salmon in Australia on the state site.

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-09/tasmania-extends-gmo-ban/5193008

    That link came from this search - http://www.australia.gov.au/funnelback/search?collection=gov_combined&extra_all_num_ranks=3&form=simple&query=GMO
  • extra_medium
    extra_medium Posts: 1,525 Member
    Also important to keep in mind that one or two countries banning something does not automatically make it evil.
  • alexandriax03
    alexandriax03 Posts: 289 Member
    bump
  • Illini_Jim
    Illini_Jim Posts: 419 Member
    I’m not going to read this anti-American drivel!

    *wraps self in flag to watch 1980 Olympics and drinks his Old Milwaukee*

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