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Re: EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices

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Post by thesmtsolver2 » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 5:27 PM UTC

Jensson wrote: post #158

thesmtsolver2 wrote: post #106

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It is stricter. https://www.daymarksafety.com/news/some-fundamental-differen... EU labels are not required to list as much information about nutrients in a product as compared to US food labels. Plus, they often omit such items as saturated fat, fiber, and sugar.

> EU labels are not required to list as much information about nutrients in a product as compared to US food labels. Plus, they often omit such items as saturated fat, fiber, and sugar. Those aren't additives, it just means you don't need to breakdown the nutrients label it doesn't change the additives. So the things you have brought up doesn't seem to be the reason USA has so many more additives listed on their prod…

So Europeans have Kryptonite biology where nutrient content doesn't matter for their health?

> what you say seems to just be a meme

The biggest meme now is hating the US while glorifying EU despite in-your-face evidence that justifies a contrary attitude.

Re: EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices

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Post by NopIdoN » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 6:28 PM UTC

thesmtsolver2 wrote: post #310

NopIdoN wrote: post #297

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What's more full of shit? FDA approved food or this guy?

Thanks for citation and logical discussion. Always good to engage in such discussions. I think some folks are full of shit so that nutritional content of the food itself, like mentioned, in a parallel comment doesn't matter much for them, but for rest of us with normal biology it does matter unfortunately.

https://food.ec.europa.eu/food-safety/labelling-and-nutritio...

  Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 requires the vast majority of pre-packed foods to bear a nutrition declaration. It must provide the energy value and the amounts of fat, saturates, carbohydrate, sugars, protein and salt of the food.

Re: EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices

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Post by phatskat » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 2:27 AM UTC

culi wrote: post #288

pnw wrote: post #126

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Not just South America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_CIA_involvement_in_the...

Of course not.[0][1][2] But nowhere as extensively as South America.[3][4] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_19... [3] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/26/a-timeline-of-cia-... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

I’ll never miss an opportunity to plug a very relevant Behind the Bastards - at this point it feels like an Xkcd for Very Bad Things, but I digress - [Part One: The Deadliest School in History](https://open.spotify.com/episode/2N77mwUI0pDOBOP6gIknkU) does a pretty good job of covering the School of the Americas

They also have a few on Bernays because of course they do

Re: EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices

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Post by phatskat » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 2:31 AM UTC

culi wrote: post #69

pipeline_peak wrote: post #68

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What else would they have produced with banana crops that people would’ve wanted?

More banana varieties. The reason Panama Disease was so successful is because of the practice of cloning. Every single crop is the same genetics. Researchers warned that starting over with the Cavendish would result in the exact same thing again and the clear solution was to stop cloning the exact same plant and grow more types of bananas (there are more than 1,000 species of banana and tens of thousands of varieties…

That was a fun bit of trivia I learned from Balatro - the Gros Michel has a one in six chance of being destroyed after a round. However, if it is destroyed (the game displays Extinct! when it perishes), then the Cavendish can appear randomly in the shop and has a one in one-thousand chance of being destroyed.

Re: EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices

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Post by culi » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 11:17 PM UTC

lukan wrote: post #128

jenadine wrote: post #108

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> strict Spanish regulation for organic produce. Organic labels are a different thing than official regulation though. IMHO organic labels optimize for the wrong things.

"IMHO organic labels optimize for the wrong things." What do you mean? I only know of "Demeter", that also has some very esoteric requirements (homeopathy, cosmic energy flow rituals) - but otherwise organic label optimize for: - no or little pesticides and herbicides - more space and better condition for the animals My only other grievance is that they also all ban GMO

Biodynamic at least requires farms to produce their own fertilizers. For that reason alone I try to buy it. Fertilizer dependency will be the end of us

I ignore all the magic stuff (in fact, if you have some spiritual devotion to the food you're growing I think that's just fine)