Update, I have been properly informed that the source are crazy people.

  • homhom9000 [she/her]
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    5 months ago

    "Are you on birth control?"

    "Yeah I had a bowl of cheerios with oatmilk this morning"

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Quakers' masterplan still going after 100 years

      • VOLCEL_POLICE [it/its]B
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        5 months ago

        Show

        The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.

        نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

        volcel-police

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      MFW in amerikkka, if my boomer aunt is to be believed. There wasn't anyone eating real food in the 50's-70's until the environmentalist movement took off. It was seen as gross

      Fucking hell. I hate being born in amerikkka, I don't belong here with these philistines. Lucky me, I was born one generation too late to easily get anti-italian-action citizenship (and I can't leave mia famiglia). Suffering under Meloni would be worth it if it means my own body is kept more intact.

      • CommunistBear [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        I was also born too late to receive EU citizenship by blood. I had a few different options but given that my family has been in this god forsaken country long enough, I'm stuck here. I'd leave my family in a heartbeat since I don't really give a shit about 95+% of them

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Me, a drinker of coffee with oatmilk on a semi regular basisdubois-depressed

  • Juice [none/use name]
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    5 months ago

    What if all these years of people complaining about gluten, it was actually this poison making them sick?

  • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    I was like "Oh damn, that seems real bad", and then I saw "Environmental Working Group". It's funded in large part by the organic industry, and tends to publish dubious reports. They put out articles saying "vaccines are linked to autism", years after it had already been found false, and often oppose scientific consensus.

    This might be an issue, but keep the sources bias in mind.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      5 months ago

      Love living in a country where food companies do information warfare in order to monopolize the market so they can go back to feeding you poison once you let you guard down.

  • Greenleaf [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    FYI I know the common response to this is “well I don’t plan on having kids anyway”….

    Fertility is considered a pretty good marker for a number of other health issues. More accurate on a population level than an individual level, of course infertile people can be very healthy and just because you can have kids doesn’t mean you’re all good. But overall, if fertility is dropping that is a bad sign, probably folks’ endocrine systems are getting messed up by exterior factors (like pesticides).

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      5 months ago

      Plus, you shouldn’t give a shit about whether you want kids or not. You should decide that not some fucking company. If my Tesla blows up and I’m hospitalized I’m not going to think “well I hate going outside anyway”. It’s just a lousy cope

  • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    Late-stage industrial capitalism lifehack: changing my breakfast habits to avoid having to pay for birth control

  • Mokey [none/use name]
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    5 months ago

    I went to traitor joe bidens today and saw how uncomplicated the ingredients are for a lot of things, now i can see why rich white people go there

    • callTheQuestion [any]
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      5 months ago

      I dont think pesticides are included on ingredients lists in any case.

      Should not be fooled by the marketing of the "natural" food industry.

      Example, Cheerios ingredients:

      Whole Grain Oats, Corn Starch, Sugar, Salt, Tripotassium Phosphate. Vitamin E (mixed tocopherols) Added to Preserve Freshness. Vitamins and Minerals: Calcium Carbonate, Iron and Zinc (mineral nutrients), Vitamin C (sodium ascorbate), A B Vitamin (niacinamide), Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride), Vitamin A (palmitate), Vitamin B1 (thiamin mononitrate), A B Vitamin (folic acid), Vitamin B12, Vitamin D3.

      Everything after "Vitamins and Minerals" looks "complicated". But they are added to correct for dietary deficiencies caused primarily by poverty. If poor people ate the "uncomplicated" foods it would just be bringing back pellegra, goiters, rickets and various other diseases of malnutrition. They are successful public health interventions.

      "Natural" food is a thing to individualize problems like health and ecology which can only be addressed collectively.

      • Mokey [none/use name]
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        5 months ago

        Trader joes has those things too fwiw. I just like that there is zero mention of preservatives. I feel like the American obesity epidemic is also due to the use or these preservatives and extra chemicals

    • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]
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      5 months ago

      yeah I'm not gonna claim they're great or anything but even their more prepared foods I have at least once been pleasantly surprised at the basic and reasonable ingredient list, it felt like one step away from being something I could easily make myself (lot of ingredients but all normal stuff)

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    porky-happy: "Tee-hee! Oopsie daisy!"

    amerikkka-clap: "That's okay porky, we believe in freedom here. If people don't like it, they can simply start their own oat farm! You did nothing wrong, and the whiners should just learn to live and let live!"

    Please, someone liberate me from this liberty. If having to eat clean, unpoisoned food, drinking clean water and breathing fresh air alongside a walkable community that will give me plenty of exercise alongside some time to go to the gym is "authoritarian", then please, someone oppress me.

  • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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    5 months ago

    It's not a pesticide it's a plant growth regulator. Banned in the US but not on imported crops... that's how they get ya.

    Chlormequat is an inhibitor of gibberellin biosynthesis that inhibits cell elongation, resulting in thicker stalks, which are sturdier, facilitating harvesting of cereal crops.

  • destroyamerica@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    ah it was a pesticide? i saw this a day or 2 ago but the headline just read "chemical". Fucking love that capitalists continue to poison us more and more every year

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      porky-happy: "Well all we have to do is say 'muh freedumz' and the courts will let us. You gotta learn to live and let live, surely there's some fancy hippie organic oats you can buy. Stop being such a nosy killjoy!"

      • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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        5 months ago

        Yeah, those hippy oats are more expensive too

        On top of that they're grown right next to the fields that spray shit like this on the crops and there's this thing called wind

        • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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          5 months ago

          porky-scared-flipped: "Well...ummm, you see uhh....It's my right to poison you! I worked hard for it! No one owes you anything!"