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Food for Thought: That's Not Water Getting Sprayed on Your Broccoli
You won't believe what grocery stores spray on your produce
The Meat Mafia 🥩⚡
May 31, 2024
Happy Friday, Meat Mafia!
In case you missed it…
#1: The mist sprayed on produce in the grocery stores isn’t water. It’s chlorine. While this is shocking news to some, to others this is just another day in America where we continue to discover new and strange ways that our food system is broken.
holy sh*t...
the mist sprayed on produce at grocery stores isn't water...
it's full of chlorine to disinfect the produce
— Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 (@AlpacaAurelius)
1:27 AM • May 29, 2024
#2: Kraft Hines is to be bought by Philip Morris in the largest non-oil acquisition ever. Philip Morris, a tobacco company, is now getting their hands on a Big Food giant.
In 1988, Phillip Morris bought Kraft - forming the world’s largest food producer.
3 of the 4 largest mergers in the 1980s were cigarette cos purchasing food cos.
Processed food is - quite literally - a science experiment from the cigarette industry designed to addict us.… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Calley Means (@calleymeans)
1:21 AM • May 28, 2024
#3: The US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is claiming that Ultra-processed foods might not be causing obesity. Yes, you read that correctly.
Today, the US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee reported that there is limited evidence that ultra-processed food intake increases risk of obesity in adults and made an explicit call for more US research on this important topic.
— Kevin Hall (@KevinH_PhD)
6:29 PM • May 30, 2024
Best,
Brett & Harry