America's Toxic Food System - EARLY ACCESS, AD-FREE, AND UNCENSORED
Added 2023-08-08 15:37:50 +0000 UTCHi. In today's episode, we look at America's food system, why corn is in nearly everything we eat, how factory farms are bad for consumers and the environment, and why capitalism makes it so hard to eat healthy.
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/tLeDTuyrXLM
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One of the worst food packaging misdeeds I've ever seen is on Lucky Charms cereal, they emblazon across the top of the box "Our first ingredient is Whole Grain Oats". The first time I saw this in the store I said "Yeah but what's the second? Sugar?" I checked the box and yep, it's sugar.
Douglas Boyle
2023-08-14 23:31:51 +0000 UTCAs odious as the children's cereal marketing and advertising is, it's by no means as awful as what McD did: hire and fire Sid and Marty Kroftt (of H.R. Pufinstuf fame and many other children programs of the 60s and 70s) as consultants, make knockoff Kroftt mascots and PlayPlace areas to deliberately attract children. Children who they knew would nag at their parents to take them to McD, and then grow up to crave the salty, fatty, fried mess of whatever passes for "food." That is an "old witch in the forest with a gingerbread house" level of evil.
Georgina Toland
2023-08-10 19:53:15 +0000 UTCWatched (part of) this while chopping veggies for salad over lunch around the time he was talking about the average length of lunch breaks. I finished making my salad with enough time to bring it back to my desk and clock in.
Jax Uzpen
2023-08-10 17:02:08 +0000 UTCOkay. also too. Y'all need to go watch the ads version, just to see the brilliant Katy ad. Holy crap! Unrelated: Where can I get an "Ask me about my butthole." shirt?
darklordjames
2023-08-10 16:16:09 +0000 UTCOkay, I gotta know; how much corn is in AG1?
darklordjames
2023-08-10 15:55:15 +0000 UTCGod damn, you guys, I just fuckin' LOVE how getting a bunch of ingredients in a box that I still need to prep saves me time to charge out of my brownstone and out to the beach in this very real situation that was accurately captured by someone's either targeted swap-out or just abject fuck-up of understanding how architecture and geography work. This episode was great, all, as usual. Thanks so much for spending so much time on it!
Sam Bishop
2023-08-10 07:05:05 +0000 UTCSounds like someoneβs a βLonely Grain of Cornβ https://youtu.be/FjqLwnLHJIo
Chris Hanson
2023-08-10 06:38:43 +0000 UTCI hope y'all make a short about all the stuff corn is in. I want to share that. That shocked me waaaay more than I thought it would. I'm going to eat a few more salads in the future. Keep up the great work!
Vaultboy678
2023-08-10 06:29:35 +0000 UTCI was really surprised (and a bit grossed out) by the amount of PACKAGING on American food. I visited from Australia and saw that my family produced more garbage in a day than we do in Australia in a week. And it wasn't their fault, it was just everything coming in plastic bags and hard plastic and plastic ziploc bags and it was just a relentless torrent of trash :(
Ava
2023-08-09 21:25:45 +0000 UTCi enjoyed watching this while eating totally healthy and normal tyson brand chicken nuggets
Jacob Langone
2023-08-09 21:15:00 +0000 UTCThe conversation about our screwed up food systems could be hours long, as Zbasile stated above. I went plant-based 4 years ago for the animals and for the environment. Because I care about health, I also track my macros just to make sure I'm not getting too much saturated fat or sugar (added sugar - naturally occurring, I'm less concerned about). But all of that is EASY for me. I have access to fresh fruit and veg. I work from home, so I can soak and cook beans regularly. I can even subscribe to a CSA to ensure I'm getting local/in-season produce. I am in a minority in this regard, Communities in food deserts, or families working multiple jobs to make ends meet do not have the same luxuries I do. We could make healthy food more affordable if we didn't bend to the whims of Monsanto.
Pelicans are my favorite dinosaur
2023-08-09 18:36:15 +0000 UTCCorn!
Some More News
2023-08-09 18:21:37 +0000 UTCcorn
burgerpocalypse
2023-08-09 18:07:06 +0000 UTCHonestly it's a miracle I'm alive with the amount of hot dogs and Ramen I consume because of convenience
A+#1GoodBoyAdam
2023-08-09 17:55:13 +0000 UTCI would have enjoyed a 4-hour episode about this. You did it about that terrible guy last year, you should have done it this time again.
Zbasile Zbarbazanges
2023-08-09 07:20:08 +0000 UTCπ
T_Cooper
2023-08-08 23:15:34 +0000 UTCAm I the only one who watches the YouTube videos just for the ads?
RicoRay317
2023-08-08 20:07:40 +0000 UTCAn Engineering professor once told me that using corn ethanol to solve the energy shortage is like building a moon colony to solve the housing shortage
Andrew Carkner
2023-08-08 20:03:26 +0000 UTCWe can buy Cody's number on the internet?? Score!
The Wyverns
2023-08-08 19:31:34 +0000 UTCSeems fine on our end!
Some More News
2023-08-08 18:50:04 +0000 UTCI think the video got pulled off YouTube. You done pissed someone off this time.
Nicodamos Petropolos
2023-08-08 18:30:06 +0000 UTCMy phone died so imma just star at the beginning
Thereal_VanWalsh
2023-08-08 18:21:25 +0000 UTCChildren of the Corned Cream
Thereal_VanWalsh
2023-08-08 18:20:43 +0000 UTCYou're going to sell a Cornbo shirt, right? RIGHT?!?!?
Matthew McCoy
2023-08-08 17:51:29 +0000 UTCI pay $5 a month for cheetah cum jokesβ¦. What a steal! Great episode and Iβm not at all discouraged by the country I live in!
VacationWolf
2023-08-08 17:21:04 +0000 UTCIβd have something to add, except Iβm part of the Slow Thought Movement.
peterthooper
2023-08-08 17:15:21 +0000 UTCYou guys have been knocking it out of the park lately! Excited to watch this one
AEPSchmitt
2023-08-08 15:44:36 +0000 UTCYou're too quick for me. Refresh and you should see it!
Some More News
2023-08-08 15:42:39 +0000 UTCGod I hope thereβs a few corny puns in this detailed video on our agricultural focuses/industry
matt rascon
2023-08-08 15:40:51 +0000 UTCNo YouTube link?
Stephen K
2023-08-08 15:40:01 +0000 UTC
