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Hrm, I ate a lot of cheerios growing up ... maybe that's what's wrong with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiFNrO33bSo

The following is eyeroll invoking to me:

Mollie Wulff, a spokesperson for General Mills, told USA TODAY in a statement: "All our products adhere to all regulatory requirements. Food safety is always our top priority at General Mills, and we take care to ensure our food is prepared and packaged in the safest way possible."

"All our products adhere to all regulatory requirements." Yeah. That doesn't mean it doesn't contain the pesticide. You're just following FDA regulations, which allows the import of food containing the pesticide. For all we know you import the oats...

Who knows at the end of the day what's really in the food we eat? Seems impossible unless you grow your own food in soil that you yourself test. As well as raise your own animals.

This is fudgeed. I literally just started a heavy Cheerios kick to lay off the sugar cereal and keep better health in mind.

Can't anything promoted as the "healthy choice" just actually BE that for once?

hmm sorry about this, We apparently use it up here. Though there has been other carcinogens used in General Mills foods for decades.

Trisodium phosphate is a bad one.. safe in small amounts but is linked to Kidney Disease, Heart issues, decreased bone density among other things. We pretty much stopped with General Mills products period, we did have a brief moment where my kid had to have Honey Nut Cheerios but we have since moved passed that.

Sigh. I enjoy plain Cheerios. It's a cereal that even if I munch on it, it doesn't feel too unhealthy. (As opposed to wolfing down a bunch of fruity pebbles)

And their peanut butter chocolate Cheerios are excellent. They got the chocolate/peanut ratio spot on.

Sad.

Fake news. This is all a guerrilla warfare tactic being used by the Kellogg family to try to gain market share. The Quaker Oats man is next.

j/k This is pretty terrible but I doubt very much it's just these cereals that contain bad stuff like this. I can only imagine.

Anxiouz wrote:
Yeah, who knows at the end of the day what's in the processed food we eat.

Even unprocessed food can have pesticides/chemicals, but at least, hopefully, the more pure a food is, the less strange stuff will be in it.

Is everyone not aware that the food, water and medicine supplies are literally engineered to keep us as unhealthy as humanly possible without immediately killing us, essentially just sick enough to be lifetime slaves to pharmaceutical industry?

Prime wrote:
That's sad, and sick. Seriously twisted.

I'll be honest I'm not super worried about it. UK food laws are way stricter than US so if they haven't banned it yet it's probably less of a problem than that article is making it out to be.

benstylus wrote:

I mean that would probably be fine it were only Cheerios. Cheerios just got caught with their hand in the cookie jar.

loztdogs wrote:

I haven't eaten Cheerios for at least two decades. They have a particular smell (especially when milk is added) that my mind associates with certain things I don't even like to touch, much less would consider eating.

Quaker oats I can eat no problem, though I honestly prefer the generic store brand for those.

benstylus wrote:

Maybe because they don't taste like pesticides?

Archer wrote:

Nah they taste the same they are just half the price.

And for the little packets they used to have trivia on them.

Apparently someone else was a fan of this too
https://cbishop120.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/quaker...

I would assume if Quaker is importing oats from where that pesticide is used because it's cheaper than growing them in the US, the generic brand is doing it too.

Try Heritage Flakes instead. Probably the healthiest cereal I've tried that tastes good.