That's so America lol
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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
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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.
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?
They said they ate several bags of 'em, blame the lead poisoning.
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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.
Definitely doesn't start with an "M"
The kids get enough lead at school, this is ridiculous !!
/s
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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.
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.
Can't have lead deficiency in the younger generation. It might lead them to actually think /s
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?
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.
from the pipes, and metal manufacturing equipment.
lunchables recently were exposed to high lead levels, and many spices may contain lead.
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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!
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A careful examination of Walmart nuggets would probably conclude that the lead was the least harmful ingredient
Lead, swallow and get out of my way!
I love the extra 6 words they had to include because they're made out of assorted Grade D meats.
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Of course they are
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.
I know this is beside the point but jesus, the UI for trying to turn off cookies on that site is utter dogshit.
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.
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Forgot the lead, WTF is “rib meat’?
It’s what’s leftover after you make a boneless chicken breast.
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