80 procent av USA:s snabbmat är förbjuden i övriga världen - cancerframkallande etc.

80 procent av USA:s snabbmat innehåller stora mängder giftiga kemikalier och andra skadliga ämnen som är totalförbjudna i mat i den övriga civiliserade världen.*
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T.ex. Azodicarbonamide, vilket är vanligt förekommande i djupfrysta bröd- och potatisprodukter. Ämnet är mycket skadligt för människor, vilket förmodligen blir ännu tydligare av att det även används till att framställa både blekmedel och skumplast.

Snabbmat-företag i USA använder ofta billig vegetabilisk olja som innehåller diverse skadliga substanser. Dessa orsakar bevisligen mängder av allvarliga tarm- och magsjukdomar samt alla kända sorters cancer.

- Barnens läckra Ostburgare, som serveras på ett flertal amerikanska hamburgerrestauranger, innehåller färgämne som utvinns ur kol och tjära.

- Färgämnen som orsakar allergier och cancer, vilket också tydligt påvisats vid djurförsök.

Butylated Hydroxyanisole (BHA) och Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), (engelsk beteckning) utvinns från petroleum och är starkt cancerframkallande. Substansen användes ändå av både Kellogs och liknande företag när de tillverkar sina färgglada frukostflingor år amerikanska barn.
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http://shine.yahoo.com/shine-food/80-pre-packaged-foods-america-banned-other-countries-135100604.html

Full artikel: By Babble.com | Shine Food – Mon, Jun 24, 2013 9:51 AM EDT

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Crap Foods We Eat

Publicerad den 17 juli 2013

If you are shopping at an American grocery store, chances are: you're buying products laced with chemicals, petroleum, even brominated vegetable oil- you know that substance that stops carpets from catching on fire—and you don't even know it. Other countries that have banned common US grocery store items to our shelves.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyeH7j_2q5Q
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5 US Foods Banned by the Rest of the World

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Publicerad den 1 aug 2013

Abby Martin goes over five harmful ingredients found in nearly everything Americans consume despite the fact that many other countries have banned them.

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Source: Yahoo! Shine


(If you or your kids enjoy pre-packaged convenience foods)

In a new book Rich Food, Poor Food, authors Mira and Jason Calton provide a list of what they term "Banned Bad Boys" - ingredients commonly used in up to 80% of all American convenience food that have been banned by other countries, with information about which countries banned each substance and why. 

And though it might not surprise you to hear that Olestra - commonly used in low/no-fat snack foods and known to cause serious gastrointestinal issues for those who consume it (understatement) - is on that list, having been banned in both the United Kingdom and Canada, you may be shocked to hear that Mountain Dew, Fresca and Squirt all contain brominated vegetable oil, a substance that has been banned in more than 100 countries "because it has been linked to basically every form of thyroid disease - from cancer to autoimmune diseases - known to man."

Related: The 25 healthiest foods for under $1

Way to go, FDA! Woot! 

 You might also be upset to hear that the food coloring used to make your kid's delicious Mac & Cheese dinner visually appealing - yellow #5 and yellow #6, namely - is made from coal tar, which among other things is an active ingredient in lice shampoo and has been linked to allergies, ADHD, and cancer in animals. And gaaaaah. 

 Then there's azodicarbonamide - commonly found in frozen dinners and frozen potato and bread products - which is used make things like bleach and foamed plastics like those found in yoga mats (tasty!). Azodicarbonamide has been banned in most European countries because it's known to induce asthma, and is in fact deemed so dangerous that in Singapore its use carries a hefty $500,00 fine and up to 15 years in prison. 

Yet, according to the FDA, it's SO TOTALLY FINE for us to keep shoveling it into our kid's faceholes: "[Azodicarbonamide] is approved to be a bleaching agent in cereal flour and is permitted for direct addition to food for human consumption."

Oooookay then.

Finally, there's butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) - found in Post, Kelloggs and Quaker brand cereals - which is made from petroleum and is a known cancer-causing agent. It's been banned in England and Japan, but those of us in the U.S. can keep right on serving up to our children for breakfast, because AMMURICA. And FREEDOMZ.

Anyone else find all of this, ohhhh I don't know, more than a tad bit disturbing? I'm not ashamed to say I have love for the blue box Mac & Cheese, and to think that chemicals known and recognized world-wide as completely toxic are included in that - a product openly marketed as being a meal FOR KIDS - makes me more than a little ragey. I mean, those chemicals can't be what makes it taste so good, right? So can't we, umm, just use something else instead? (PLEEEASE DON'T MAKE ME GIVE UP THE MAC & CHEESE, PLEEEASE.) Sigh.

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http://shine.yahoo.com/shine-food/80-pre-packaged-foods-america-banned-other-countries-135100604.html 

(Artikeln hade cirka 2000 kommentarer på Yahoo, Reds.anm.)

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RT 2013-06-21
Roughly 80 percent of all the packaged foods sold within the United States contain chemicals outlawed in other parts of the world, Britain’s Daily Mail reports.

Six common food additives found in an estimated 8-out-of-10 products sold in American stores are banned outside of the US, the Mail claims, putting millions of Americans at risk of consuming chemicals considered too dangerous for humans in other countries.

Grocery shop items including best-selling soft-drinks and cereal sold in the US contain additives such as brominated vegetable oil, olestra and others that have been banned in the European Union and elsewhere.
The Daily Mail cites ‘Rich Food, Poor Food,' a recently published book by Jayson Calton and Mira Calton, as the source for their claim that the majority of American groceries contain the additives.

Among the common items containing the chemicals are Mountain Dew, Chex Mix and Hungry Man frozen dinners, which are made with additives outlawed overseas due to health risks. The Caltons say these products are filled with some of the six “Banned Bad Boys” that are used in America but absent in supermarkets overseas.

“One of the most common 'Bad Boys' is different variations of food coloring, which actually is made from petroleum and is found in everyday items like soda, sports drinks, mac and cheese, cake, candy and several other common, American products,” reports the Daily Mail. One of the chemicals in that food coloring, they add, has been proven to cause various different cancers. Those artificial dyes have been outlawed in Norway, Finland, Austria, France and the United Kingdom
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- Another additive, brominated vegetable oil, has been banned in over 100 countries because it’s been linked to causing major organ damage, birth defects and hearing loss, among other side effects. 

Brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, is used in Mountain Dew, Gatorade, Powerade and Squirt — and around 10 percent of all drinks sold in the US.

A petition started earlier this year to get BVOs out of beverages sold in the US received over 206,000 signatures on the website Change.org.

“BVO is banned other places in the world, so these companies already have a replacement for it,” the petition’s author, Sarah Kavanagh, told The New York Times. “I don’t see why they don’t just make the switch.”

Another additive, potassium bromate, is used in American bakeries to speed up the process of preparing wraps, rolls and other bread products. It’s derived from the same chemical as BVO, though, and has been tied to causing kidney damage and cancer. That’s why it’s been outlawed in Europe, Canada and China, but not in the US.

Also on the Calton’s list is azodicarbonamide, a chemical the Daily Mail notes is used to make things like bleach and rubber yoga mats.

Azodicarbonamide is “approved to be a bleaching agent in cereal flour” and is “permitted for direct addition to food for human consumption,” according to the Food and Drug Administration. Along with waxy preservatives called butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) used in bubble gums, though, the additive has been banned in parts of Europe for potential health risks.

- Rounding out the authors’ 'Bad Boys' list are Synthetic growth hormones rBGH and rBST and the chemical arsenic. 

They’ve both been banned in the EU for a variety of reasons, and perhaps for good reason: the arsenic put in American poultry can kill a human being if consumed in a high enough dosage.

http://rt.com/usa/banned-additives-food-outlawed-089/

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80 procent av USA:s snabbmat är förbjuden i övriga världen - cancerframkallande etc.