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this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2024
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How does lead keep ending up in the food? I could understand environmental exposure in a lead-contaminated field or something but why would anyone build a food processing plant and let lead near it?
lots of products that are sold by weight have been found to have lead added to them to cheat the scales including food such as cinnamon recalled last month
That's...monstrous. That's so evil, it would be considered "unrealistic" in a movie with a cartoonishly evil capitalist as the villain.
Lead can't possibly be cheaper than iron or sawdust or something
Lead is one of the cheapest metals by density.
Also one of the heaviest by volume.
A quick google suggests lead is about 1/3 the price of iron ore. Nickel is around the same as lead, but it's only about 3/4 as dense.
It's also added for sweetness and coloring sometimes.