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[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 110 points 1 year ago

Fun fact, those are not labeled do not eat because they are toxic, but because they are choking hazards.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

And because they often are included in food products, and there’s a fair amount of regulation around mixing non-food with food.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Ah, regulation of food...soon, that will be the good old days in the US.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

We’ll get Kinder eggs and all it will cost us is sawdust in all our food

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And lead in the pph.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Judging by the backlash I saw online on that butter recall because of the missing "contains milk" statement, it seems like few will miss the regulations.

In the long run, looser regulations could prove to be a Darwinian solution to most current issues.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

A lot of good, smart people can’t afford to eat food they know for sure is safe. Hell, in food deserts it wouldn’t matter much either way.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Am from deep in WV and I’ve known many people who lived on dollar store food. No car, nearest grocery store is 40 miles away.

It’s a sad place.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Jesus Christ, that’s insane. I mean I would have thought maybe even fast food…at least the dollar store has some cereals and stuff but those aren’t much of a solution.

[-] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's a mistake to imagine most regulation is just brainless nonsense. It would be like imagining the entire legal industry is composed of burglars suing home owners because they slipped in the kitchen whilst robbing the house and concluding we could easily do away with it.

Looser regulations is incredibly unlikely to effect only or even mostly the stupid or even only or even mostly the poor. Firstly the primary food supply for rich and poor right up to the 1% generally comes from the same ultimate sources the rich just A) mix some more expensive stuff in B) have people who fetch and prepare the food for them.

Also people are incredibly laughably bad at enacting food safety by voting with their feet even when a particular restaurant is making people sick. Oftentimes the actual sickness may take days to manifest and may not be connected obviously with the ultimate source. Now that is for things that at least directly sicken people. Things that are merely unhealthy may have an ultimate effect that is only visible at the population level where you see significantly more people get cancer in the next 10 to 20 years.

[-] Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago

I like your thinking sir perhaps a darwinian solution is precisely what our country needs right now.

[-] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 year ago

I feel like the right wing uses Darwin as an excuse for their chosen genocides rather than an explanation for why they die of intentionally getting diseases or eating toxic substances a guy on tiktok told them to.

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Given the outbreaks we've had recently, we're getting pretty close already.

[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

What kind of food are you eating that is packaged alongside silica gel?

[-] YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 44 points 1 year ago

I have seen in in dried foods like beef jerky or seaweed.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Or anything freeze dried!

[-] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Ok guys, seriosuly no offence, but are you all from the states? I don't want to do the usual US bashing, but I've never seriously seen silica gel in any kind of food, and especially in oral medicines that are individually packaged in protective atmosphere. So I feel like like it's a cultural difference

[-] pinkystew@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago

It's included in bottles of oral medication as well.

[-] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Foods that are ruined by ambient humidity, that's what kind.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago

Why don't they say open before eating then? What a waste.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

There's some that have coloration to them to show when they're used up. Those can be toxic.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How do you know, have you tried them?

[-] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago
[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

That's crazy, I had no idea. I'd be careful saying things like that though. They might not like other people knowing.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Ha, I knew Trump being president twice couldn't possibly be real!"

"No, that would be crazy! In the real world His Magnificence has been emperor since 2001."

[-] pipe01@programming.dev 37 points 1 year ago

I ate one of those accidentally one day. I did not escape the simulation though.

[-] Sonor@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Misinformation!

[-] jonathan@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago

You needed to also recite the incantation.

[-] Restaldt@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Ravioli Ravioli let me leave the simuoli

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

You gotta take a whole-body screenshot right after

Swallow gel packet -> get spitroasted -> blink twice should work

[-] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Something something prostate/spot and gag reflex

[-] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

This is clearly a silica gel shill. Do not listen to the propaganda.

Did you do a backflip and a three-quarters heel-turn right after? That worked for me.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

This is probably what trumpers think is happening every time he says fake news.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

The comic should be considered as professional medical advice.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

Are you trying to summon RFK Jr.?!?!?!

[-] Sonor@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

And spiritual advice

[-] Okokimup@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Why he ate it with the bag? Should've rip the bag first then eat it like a civilized person

[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Didn’t know they put LSD in those.

this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2024
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