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How It’s Actually Made: 53 Products People Would Stop Buying If They Knew What’s Behind Them
Everyone likes to think they’re savvy consumers. You know all the tricks to get the best deal on everything from your morning coffee to your favorite makeup, and you’re always looking for ways to ensure you’re getting the most bang for your buck. Oh, the things we do to look and feel good. We’d do it all for the sake of small, joyous pleasures...
Or not. What if you knew how the products you use daily were made? Would you still be willing to shell out big bucks for them?
Each product has a story behind it — sometimes fascinating, sometimes disturbing. We see something we like and we buy it, rarely stopping to think about where it comes from or how it’s actually made. But it’s our social responsibility to make better choices and ponder the implications of buying certain products and services. Let’s start from here!
It turns out there are plenty of things people would stop buying if they knew how they were made. We recently got hooked on a Reddit thread that sparked conversation, with thousands of comments sharing which companies have dark secrets in their closets. Some products are created in factories that treat their workers poorly. Others are made with ingredients that could be harmful to your health. And some are just straight-up gross!
From unethical manufacturing practices to crazy ingredients, this post may leave you thinking twice about what you put in your shopping cart from now on. But don’t worry, this isn’t an anti-capitalist rant — just a reminder that even though something might seem like an everyday necessity now, there’s always an ethically better option out there. Join us as we share what people have to say about it and shed light on the dark side of consumer goods!
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#1
Junduk said: After I found out the story behind the palm plantations for the production of palm oil I made it my personal mission to completely throw it out of my life. delayedregistration replied: "Palm oil is the biggest reason for massive deforestation around the world. South America and Southeast Asia (Indonesia in particular) are producing the most. There are moratoriums on new palm oil plantations, but companies are skirting that issue by paying individuals to start forest fires so that the companies can then buy up the land that is no longer a forest. Deforestation is destroying habitats for animals like orangutans and tigers. And all of the burnings of the forest are also burning peat. Peat is essentially forest detritus that house huge amounts of C02. By burning it we are quickly releasing all of that C02 into the atmosphere. Worst of all, the plantations are only good for one or two cycles, then the land is essentially discarded, and new plantations are made. In my opinion, palm oil production is the greatest ecological disaster in history. It is nearly everything, and essentially impossible to avoid. There are so many different names for it, so it can go unnoticed so easily. Even the supposedly sustainable palm oil production is extremely damaging to the environment it is grown in."
Lyone Fein 2 years ago
Really. Like why is there palm oil in almond butter? Almonds have their own oil.
Best Behave 2 years ago
Beef production is the top driver for tropical deforestation. It requires staggering amounts of land for soy production and for pasture.
MoMcB 2 years ago
Yes, Soy production is coming under pressure as a lot of it isn't sustainable.
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Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
We humans have created a great many ecological disasters within the last century.
Clara Rotti 2 years ago
I am highly allergic to palm oil. When I eat food with palm oil in it I get very bad heart palpitations or SVT. If it doesn’t stop on its own, I have to go to the emergency room and have my heart stopped with adenosine and then it converts to a normal sinus rhythm. It took me a few years to realize the palm oil was causing the heart palpitations. I wonder how many other people have this same allergy causing SVT or irregular heartbeat and don’t realize it. Palm oil is hidden in many products, also.
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#2
promise_me_jetpacks said: "Fast fashion. Even a conservative estimate puts that industry as the 5th biggest polluter, globally. Just stop it." XxsquirrelxX replied: "Fashion is honestly one of the worst industries out there, up there with electronics and industrial farming. But unlike those other two, we don’t really need it at the scale it’s at right now. Pollution is just the tip of the iceberg, the part we can see and are personally impacted by. What we don’t see is the child labor used to make it, the subtly injected unhealthy body standards in the advertising, the animal abuse for fur when synthetic fur is no different and actually cheaper, and just how much the consumer is influenced to overconsume. I mean who in their right mind would really care about the difference between fall fashion and winter fashion if the advertising didn’t tell us we needed to buy it to make people like us?"
mochi chichi 2 years ago
Why would you associate child labor with China though? They have strict laws, not as strict as the EU, but they are strict. Most child labor and fast fashion comes from India and Bangladesh, they don't protect their people in the slightest. You see that when a building catches fire and hundreds of workers die.
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Undercover 2 years ago (edited)
Tbh my wardrobe cobsists mostly of very cheap clothing items. But I wear them until they are really ripped and worn out and beyond simple repairs. I have underpants i bougt 15 years ago, my favorite cardigan was bought 2011, my winter boots are 8 years old and still flawless. I don't give a fuckk about trends
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
The issue now is that clothing made by the same brands that used to make high quality clothing that is known to last (for example, Doc Martens) is now made more cheaply and with less durable materials. So a coat you buy today from ll bean will not last as long as the ll bean coat you have that's 20 years old and still in good condition. I have been slowly replacing things that don't last or are more trendy with things that are secondhand but well-made. It's exhausting trying to keep up with trends or even "microtrends".
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Adalmina 2 years ago
Out of 600+ languages in the world you decided to speak facts
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Tyler Schommer 2 years ago
I don't think I know exactly what fast fashion is but I try to buy things that last
Arawen Haruka 2 years ago
Unfortunately not everyone can buy couture or bespoke fashion. Even small batch button down shirts cost $40.
Lucy Shadow 2 years ago
The problem is less buying fast fashion, not everyone can buy more high end stuff, the problem is more the practice of fast fashion, aka buying a bunch of clothing only to throw it out as soon as it gets out of fashion.
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Verona Bingham 2 years ago
I Always said Fur looks better on the Animals and could never fathom how Anyone could think the Extinction of a Species was worth the price the animals pay . And now at 62yrs old l Still don't understand. I believe l was right the first time that fur looks better on the animals!
#3
gonewithfire said: "Foie Gras." Sirnando138 replied: "As a young cook, I worked a few weeks at a farm that belonged to a friend of the chef I was working for. They wanted me to help with all the things to gain a larger respect for the many items we served at our place. Had to kill a few animals while there. Pigs and several fowl. Those were sad to do. One day, I had to work the pump on the ducks and geese being raised for foie. What a strange and emotional experience. I felt bad for them. A few of them didn’t mind it too much but most had to be restrained. It was the worst job I had to do there."
Sami-Jo Ross 2 years ago
This one should be much higher. For those who have no idea how foie gras is made, it's an extremely fatty liver from farmed waterfowl (geese and ducks). To get the liver to this state, they force-feed said waterfowl several times more than their daily diet at one time by shoving a tube down their throats and pumping them full of fatty feed. You know the story of Hansel and Gretel? Imagine that but the witch was forcing the sweets down their throats and making them extremely unhealthy all to get their livers fat.
Susie Elle 2 years ago
The production and sale of foie gras is illegal in lots of European countries because of the way they have to treat the animals for it.
Jodie daubenmire 2 years ago
King Charles would ban it's existence if he could.. He hates how the animals are tortured.
#4
throwawayannon8675 said: "People always point at Apple for exploiting Chinese labor but don’t realize that pretty much every company does the same thing and most of them use the exact same factory as Apple. It’s called “Foxconn” not “Apple”. They make everything." XxsquirrelxX replied: "Foxconn literally built nets around their factories because workers kept jumping off the roofs. Yeah, a suicide net around a factory. You know conditions are bad when people would rather die than work there."
mochi chichi 2 years ago
Foxconn is Taiwanese, which everyone is ignoring because nobody dares to associate anything negative with Taiwan. A ton odmf Taiwanese industry is just exploiting farmers in Taiwan and in the mainland.
Vicente Carmi 2 years ago
Sorry for living under a rock, but why does nobody dare associate anything negative with Taiwan?😅
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GlassHalfWay 2 years ago
Yeah Foxconn was suppose to provide hundreds of jobs for here in Wisconsin. Old family farms, natural water sheds and forest were demolished. They haven't built what they said they would, not many added jobs either. All that destroyed for nothing.
Jessica N 2 years ago
They added what, 30 jobs here instead of hundreds- thousands?! I actually applied there. They should have to pay for the destruction they caused to the local land and economy. I read an article about some of the tech side people hired on there who left solid jobs only to have the new job never exist. Disgusting
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#5
"The batteries for electric cars. Approximately 70% of the world’s cobalt is mined by children in the Congo, and cobalt is a vital ingredient in electric car batteries. However, companies like Tesla are attempting to find a way to make batteries without cobalt, but no solutions have been found yet."
Gourdeous 2 years ago
We have a new used electronics 'mining' plant. Rare earth minerals are now valuable enough, and the technology advanced enough to strip some old electronics to reuse.
Jackie Lulu 2 years ago
And who do think does the stripping? Those same little kids. Some of these rare earth minerals are toxic, too.
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Stewart Nagle 2 years ago
Not that they're wrong about the mining conditions for cobalt, but electric car batteries are far from the biggest consumer of cobalt.
Chris This 2 years ago
That is simply not true. It is true that the Republic of the Congo (along with countries such as Australia and Canada) has over half of the world's known cobalt ore deposits. According to the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, more than 80 percent of the cobalt mining in the Congo takes place in industrial mines of large corporations. International labor and safety standards apply here. On the other hand, the smaller, unregulated mining cooperatives, in which children are often used as workers, are problematic. But a a lot of the bigger car manufacturers already stopped buying that cobalt.
Vixxxen Foxxx 2 years ago
All these dreams about a future of nothing but Electric vehicles yet that's just not physically possible. There's not enough resources for everyone to have an EV.
Leon Prusko 2 years ago
And fossil fuels are killing the whole planet……what’s your plan?
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#6
"Not really a product but if people knew how much and often people cut corners in construction, I think housing prices would go wayyyy down. I don't think I was ever on a job where a problem came up, and people were like, "Okay, let's start over and do this right." Or, especially in bigger construction companies, how much time the employees waste running the clock. Edit: Guys trust me when I say I have put my sweat and blood into the industry. My hands are callused. I'm still working class and it wasn't my intention to call out people that do this stuff as 'lazy' or whatever else. Most people doing these jobs are extremely underpaid, and on top of being underpaid, they're putting their bodies and health on the line every single day. I almost lost a finger, twice. I've almost had a whole granite slab fall on me for 11$/hr. I probably would've died. And many more situations I won't get into. Don't take it out on the workers. Just try your best to work with a smaller company that isn't working 50 jobs at once and has a supervisor/owner around to watch what's going on."
Josh Gilland 2 years ago
It's sad that calling out an industry for doing shaddy things made people think he was belittling the individuals.
Paul Sanders 2 years ago (edited)
Well, in the US this is certainly not even close to true. Sure, there are shady people in every industry and more so when you're paying for the cheapest contractor around. I think the poster has never worked for a legit construction company. I have worked residential and commercial construction for 24 years and I assure you I have "started over" on plenty of f-ups over the years. Tradesmen are proud people who work hard to make a good living for themselves. It's easy to take it personal when some guy who only makes $11 an hour says all these people do shotty work. I mean, for that pay, he shouldn't be trusted with a broom.
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BluEyedSeoulite 2 years ago
At a rented apartment studio apartment, the bathroom sink fell off the wall and the light fixture just crashed on separate occasions. Not sure what was up with the light but the sink wasn't even attached to any wood. They literally screwed it into tile and drywall, I'm amazed it last so long. The management company said they had to check it out and we might have to pay to replace it. UMMM WHAT?! We didn't end up paying but I wonder what else was wrong in that nice looking s**t hole
Sparkle 2 years ago
Being underpaid and overworked takes the motivation away (from every profession). This would be a good chance to "shop and buy local" for a small business of carpenters who still care about their profession. Besides, a lot of the problem is also how cheaply made the materials used is...
paula brill 2 years ago
That being said, mobile homes are the worst. Built by alcoholics and druggies who can't get work anywhere else. Literally anybody off the street. Electric wiring not installed by electricians, plumb8ng not installed by plumbers. I could go on and on. I worked in that industry and I will never, ever live in a mobile home. Second class housing and a tinder box if there is a fire.
Steven 2 years ago
Construction workers get a great pay in Denmark. Let's take a bricklayer as an example. They earn from 32$ per hour. And most craftsmen earn much more than that. I know several people in construction who earn more than 60$ per hour. For some rush jobs, they can sometimes earn around 90$ per hour (such jobs usually require that they work for long days, over a period of a few months.)
Kezza 2 years ago
Chinese tofu dreg construction, after you google or youtube that you'll NEVER want to live anywhere in Chinese cities ever again. Stuff like glass bottles in concrete to cut costs, using concrete no stronger than fortified cardboard as in you can break the concrete off the wall with bare hands
j robin estrella 2 years ago
it's amazing how much company owners make compared to laborers. we just got done with a project & paid premium prices for them to incorrectly install $thousands in flooring that can't be redone without destroying the wood. then we found out the guy had never installed hardwood. they cheaped out to max out their profits, paying a guy $100/day under the table.
Janet Howe 2 years ago
With the cost of housing these days, people, are looking for the cheapest way out. So many home buyers, especially first timers, don't know what they're getting into. There's some really bad construction out there and if it's in the interior, people won't know it until something goes wrong, very wrong. Just because that McMansion looks beautiful with its cathedral ceilings and walk-in "faux" marble shower, get a qualified home inspection before you buy. Worth every penny.
Matt Harrell 2 years ago
When workers cut corners on every project, it's because they'll lose their job if they speak up. Yes, there are some bad eggs, but most of the time it's due to management and time pressure.
Truth Hear it 2 years ago (edited)
Nothing against anyone but some of the labor used in buildings is sub contractors who hire undocumented workers who don't hold the same cleanliness standards as Americans are used to. Some workers don't care no matter where they are from. They are in it for the quick money. Peeing in bathtubs, bottles of urine in the wall cavities, scurting electrical codes...shotty work in general is what housing is now. Give me a house built in the late 1800 to mid 1900s take back to studs , rid of asbestos and lead , redo inside and I'll take it a4ny day over c**p now.
#7
"I really don't think there is one. If it's because the ingredients or preparation are disgusting, I think most people are perfectly happy to keep eating/using it because the finished product is fine. If it's a moral reason, I just don't think most people would care enough to stop using or eating whatever the product is. We've known for years that Air Jordans are being made with child labor in sweatshops, and sales haven't dipped one bit due to that. And I don't say this as a cynic, I think we should work to improve conditions for all humanity, but the proportion of consumers who would be bothered enough to stop buying a thing is vanishingly small."
Sonja 2 years ago
The vast majority of people don't have a choice, they can only buy what they can afford. That's why we need wage equality. And no, that's not the reason why we're in a recession. During the 60s and 70s, when economy was the most prolific and booming, we had the highest wages of all times and the smallest wage gaps. Factory workers could afford houses and retail workers could buy cars. The economy started to go down in the 80s and 90s when tax reforms reduced taxes for the richest folks and wages didn't get raised. Today huge companies have huge winnings, much more than ever before, but since they don't pay accordingly all that money ends up as passive income in billionaires saving accounts. That's why economy is in such a bad shape
️️Upvote faery️ 2 years ago
I really agree with the sentiment here. Many people these days seem to only be out for themselves. I've recently applied to a couple of jobs only to find out they were in fact scammers and identity thieves. Thankfully, I didn't give them any information, but that doesn't mean someone else will see the scam for what it is; these people prey on others less aware. People are just fine with screwing over other people for their own gain, likely in part because the likelihood that there will be consequences against themselves is almost nil, and the chance for gain is higher. People make me sad.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 2 years ago
An average person simply doesn't have the time/energy to care. I'm just not going to spend my little bit of free time trying to track down the handful of brands that are genuinely sustainable and moral. And even if I did, I probably couldn't afford it. These aren't problems that I can fix, so I'm not going to bust my hump trying.
Josh Gilland 2 years ago
We're too use to our comfort to give most, if any, of it up. I cut back on things but even knowing how bad certain things are it's hard to give up. Definitely now that so many of these things, mainly created in want, feel like necessities.
Sandra Hunter 2 years ago
"High Society" will gasp with feigned offense when something is brought to light, but they've known for years about such practices!!! Hypocrites all!!!
Brandon Parisien 2 years ago
I haven't seen air Jordan's in a couple decades...are they still being made?
Verona Bingham 2 years ago
I must be weird then BC l don't shop at places that use child labour, congolese workers..you can throw diamonds in the air, l don't care, l don't see thé value in them. When we die you can't take it with you and it's certainly not worth someone being bullied or killed just to work for some bloodsucker..no.
Ray Arani 2 years ago
Nike did try to move all their factories back to the US back in the 90s but their share holders sued them and won. Corporations are legally bound to do what's best financially for their share holders.
Grant Christensen 2 years ago
It's sad, but true. Don't know why you got downvoted for stating a fact...
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#8
"Foam hand soap. It’s a quarter liquid soap and three-quarters water. It uses a special pump to turn it into foam. Very clever packaging. You're paying the same amount or more for a quarter of the amount of actual soap."
Lyone Fein 2 years ago
Or just use regular cake/block soap and keep all that plastic out of the whole equation.
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Mickal Sylvara 2 years ago
That's why I use blue land. You get the pump, and little tablet. You fill the glass bottle pump to fill line with water and drop in the table. Bada bing you made your own foam soap.
Michelle C 2 years ago
This is why I buy glass dispensers and use Castille soap with essential oils; doing so creates less waste.
BluEyedSeoulite 2 years ago
Didn't know this and definitely going to do this. My toddler sneaks into the bathroom and wastes sooooo much soap
#9
slashd said: "Diamonds." XxsquirrelxX replied: "I remember seeing ads for chocolate diamonds. Do you know what chocolate diamonds used to be? The waste. An impure diamond that wasn’t considered fit for sale, until some evil genius at Kay HQ figured out that women are stereotyped as loving chocolate, so all they had to do was rebrand the garbage diamond as a “chocolate diamond” and jack that price way up. Hopefully one day we finally colonize that planet made entirely of diamonds so we can tell the diamond industry to go fu*k itself. Both the producer and the consumer get screwed. The whole industry is a scam built on our perceived need to give loved ones gifts so that they’ll love us."
Andrew McLoughlin 2 years ago
We pretty much already live on a planet made of diamonds. The perception that they're rare is just marketing and artificial scarcity.
Sonja 2 years ago
True, and we can buy artificial diamonds and moissanites if we stop believing the lie that 'real' diamonds are better. Moissanites and lab diamonds are much purer and better than natural ones. Especially moissanites have a much higher brilliancy. Yes diamonds are harder than moissanites, no that doesn't mean any difference when you have them in a ring. Both still cut glass.
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Jessica N 2 years ago
The "chocolate" diamond thing slayed me when I first saw commercial, Hilarious advertising for the junk diamonds they usually use in drills xD I'm not a diamond fan but can appreciate a good marketing trick. They paid next to nothing for those industrial diamonds
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 2 years ago
Me too, "salt and pepper" diamonds just slayed me. I can't believe people fall for this junk.
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Justin Jones 2 years ago
"Champaign" diamonds as well. Just "lesser" diamonds of yellow/brown color with a fancy name.
Best Behave 2 years ago (edited)
Or just don’t bother buying them??… they’re hardly a staple necessity…
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
I seem to see younger generations not buying into the b******t Debeers is shoveling. I think the concept of a lab created diamond is way cooler myself.
James Heinle 2 years ago
It's not De Beers selling Chocolate Diamonds, it's Le Vian but yeah, you're point is taken. "Diamonds are a girl's best friend" and "Diamonds are forever" was De Beers marketing ploy. It all seems to work.
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Cindy Brower 2 years ago
😆😆😆 love hearing this after my stuck up cousin got one from her fiance, shoving it in all our faces 😆😆 look have u ever seen a chocolate diamond, omg ...
Jessica N 2 years ago
They are industrial diamonds usually used in drills xD
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Neuropotathy 2 years ago
Look at it as a tax for stupidity. (Then why these stupid got money to buy dmds and I haven't? Ouchie)
Seth 2 years ago
People used to buy their loved one an engagement ring with a stone that reflected their individuality. Often their birth stone, something in their favorite color, or something with symbolic meaning. Then the De Beers corporation came upon a massive quantity of diamonds, paid Marilyn Monroe to frequently wear them in public and sing a song about them in a movie (diamonds are a girl's best friend) and they've been riding a wealth train ever since, built upon flashy marketing, artificial scarcity, and the realization that people are shallow and care more about projecting status than expressing individuality.
#10
"Jello is a meat product masquerading as dessert."
Jackie Lulu 2 years ago
Sure, but we should us the whole animal, and not waste anyhing.. we should not eat so much meat. Not eating Jllo isn't going to change anything.
george g 2 years ago
Depends on the he "jello" there's vegan Jello... Its made from seaweed (agar-agar)
Joshie Nieto 2 years ago
Alternative option for gelatin is Agar Agar powder/flakes/sheets. It's made from seaweed and works faster than gelatin. You can find it at your local Asian market ! Super cheap and in my experience you can use less since it does leave it a bit more firm.
MoMcB 2 years ago
You can get vegetarian suet now, but it's based on palm, so there's that.
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#11
"Monster energy drinks. I have been to their bottling warehouse (I was in college with some guys who became chemists for them while I was working on my doctorate). Some defect in one of the machines caused a bunch of cans to leak. The wood pallets underneath disintegrated like wet paper. Further, the maintenance crew was on a cleaning rotation. They told me that the Monster tanks do not get cleaned unless there is so much buildup that it changes the taste. This is because it is so caustic that bacteria and mold don't survive."
Seth 2 years ago
This person obviously didn't spend enough time talking to their supposed chemist friends. Most soft drinks (including monster, coke, etc. including sugar free varieties) contain phosphoric acid, and all have a pH around 2-3. Since stomach acid has a pH of 1.5-3.5, this isn't remotely harmful when drank. And don't give me that "what about your teeth?" ignorance either; are you gargling it for hours at a time? Have you eliminated all other forms of acid from your diet (vinnegar, citrus fruit, etc.)? If your answer to either is "no" then stop singling out soft drinks. Also the term "caustic" only describes bases (alkaline solutions who's pH is greater than 7) so take everything this poster says with a pile of salt.
Aiodensghost 2 years ago
So I cure my Vitamin B deficiency 4x a year by drinking battery acid...
Mihai Fox 2 years ago
Coke has phosphoric acid, you dont taste the 2,8 pH because of all the sugar
Seth 2 years ago
So do the sugar free varieties. How do you explain that?
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If you saw my son's teeth after decades of drinking this would have to agree!
#12
"Phones. People would still buy phones, but probably demand that their phones be made from materials not mined by child slaves in the democratic republic of the Congo. The miners can be as young as four, get paid as little as a dime(in American value), and work 12 hours a day, all to mine the cobalt(60% of the global supply) that makes (batteries?). I don’t know all the facts, too lazy to read threw all the articles, but I’ve heard things from miners who refuse to work(including children) get limbs chopped off, to 24-hour shifts in deep dark tunnels. It’s a great way to hate the phone that you're probably holding while reading this."
Tawnie Bryan 2 years ago
Is there a phone you can get that isn't made with child labour? Need a new one and now my conscience is gonna fight me.
Jrdiver 2 years ago
Referb? Then technically they are not making new resources just for you.
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C.M. 2 years ago (edited)
I like how it's all about phones or electric cars in this thread. It's literally any modern electronic device that contains a battery. I'm not saying the child labor isn't horrible, but not buying a new phone isn't going to make a difference unless everyone is willing to completely give up our modern lifestyles. Maybe we can all become Quakers.
Anna Anderson 2 years ago
Faulty logic - I can't make a difference, so why try. Because if you made a conscious decision to change, there are hundreds just like you making that decision independently, influencing others around them. Incremental change is still change. Giving up, because 'not everyone is doing it ' will leave is all in the same sewer
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Corey Miller 2 years ago
Wow, conjecture and hearsay, it's all true, but read my friends, read before it's illegal.
Laura CIdoni 2 years ago
You are absolutely right-any one whose ever read the book Fahrenheit 451 understands that even though it seems farfetched, there may come a day when the government DOES ban reading, and their WILL be book police and book burnings!
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️️Upvote faery️ 2 years ago
I've had the same phone for the last 8 or 9 years. I'll just keep this one until it's completely toast
Sandra Hunter 2 years ago
"Mining cobalt for batteries" = how much more will that increase with this new "utopian" future of electric cars?!?!?!?!
Aiodensghost 2 years ago
I hated my phone for other reasons, now this one can join "Right to Repair" at the front of the line...
#13
"Dasani in the UK. Once people figured out it was just the same tap water just “purified” and resold to them they stopped buying it. Tom Scott has a great video on what happened."
lili 2 years ago
Dasani also adds salt to make you more thirsty. Sodium is actually on the ingredient list
Allan D 2 years ago
There needs to be sodium. Pure water will leech it and other electrolytes out of your system.
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Best Behave 2 years ago
Bottled water companies have been selling tap water for years. This is nothing new
three norns 2 years ago
Read the labels: unless it's "spring water" or "artesanal water", almost all bottled water comes from "municipal sources".
Erica Knapp 2 years ago
Yep! Every. Time. I prefer spring water that lists where it's sourced from. Most everything else tastes like chlorine.
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Johnnynatfan 2 years ago
Most bottled water comes from some municipal water plant. Read the label. They literally list the source of the water so it’s your fault for not knowing where the water comes from.
Daniel Jackett 2 years ago
Pure Life Water where I live in Michigan says right on the bottle: "bottled from the municipal water supply of..., Michigan
Shaun Coleman 2 years ago (edited)
Nestle in southern Ontario uses the exact same water as the City of Guelph uses for their municipal water supply. In Ontario municipal water is highly regulated and must be tested on a regular basis. There are no such regulations for bottled water. The whole bottled water industry is a giant scam to separate the gullible from their money.
#14
"Tropical Fruit! After Spain ceded control of their territories in South America, the U.S. invaded several SA counties to secure access to the Panama Canal and farmland ripe for confiscation and sale to fruit companies. People were slaughtered, dictators propped up, railroads laid, and mangos exported. These Banana Wars were some of the most blatant acts of American Imperialism since Manifest Destiny. Many of these countries still haven't economically recovered (some tired but got coupled), and the Chiquita Bananas you buy today are grown on that legacy, still unseparated."
Shaun Coleman 2 years ago
Yes, the US did do it alone. No other country was involved. The instability in central America is a legacy of the banana wars. When Americans complain about illegal migrants, remember it was your government that created the conditions that people are fleeing from so US companies could make larger profits.
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Johnnynatfan 2 years ago
So the morale of this story is don’t buy bananas today because of something that America did over 100 years ago? Stupid post.
FlatEarf 2 years ago
You know how it is, America did it along with those other countries but America is the worst so stop supporting it even though they don't do it anymore
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Josh Gilland 2 years ago
I feel people think once Britain gave up taking over places those developing nations were just left alone. Very wrong. The developed and powerful countries messed with all struggling countries. Basically the whole southern half of the world has been used by the majority of the northern world.
Janet Howe 2 years ago
We pretty much did that to Hawaii. People saw the resources. The rich went there, created corporations and took pineapples and sugar cane. The rich got richer and the Hawaiians got nothing. There really was a Dole family. One of the "5 families" that took over most of Hawaii.
#15
"Turkey bacon. It markets itself as a healthier bacon alternative but it is actually a horrifying extruded meat product. It's the hot dog of breakfast."
Andrew McLoughlin 2 years ago
Its subtle, really easy to miss, but if you pay close attentnion the next time youre carving up a thanksgiving turkey, you'll notice that it doesnt have a bacon layer. This is your clue that maybe the idea of "turkey bacon" isn't on the level.
MygrandsonscallmeNia 2 years ago
Check the labels! Some Meat, like Turkey burger has More Fat that regular hamburger! I started to make the switch, until I read the labels.
Thomas Hunt, Jr. 2 years ago
Turkey bacon is the only bacon I like, lol. But yeah, I do know how it's made. *Munches on turkey bacon*
#16
DudeGuyVR said: "A lot of perfumes are made out of musk glands that come from deer. They are killed in order to get it and it’s not pleasant. Also, some vanilla flavoring uses a liquid that comes out from the base of a beaver's tail. It’s not a pleasant experience for them either." TheWaystone replied: "Those products are extraordinarily expensive, both castorum and ambergris (you could call it whale vomit), are used in high-end perfumes. Trust me, that bottle of Axe that's been in your bathroom contains no natural ingredients. Musk deer are what musk comes from - if you've ever heard a scent described as musky, it's thanks to them. Almost no musk deer are used for producing musky scents any longer (frankly artificial versions are just as good), they seem to most often be killed for traditional medicines use."
Naesil 🇫🇮 2 years ago
AKA a**l gland, that is trivia knowledge that has been stuck with me for very long time. Artificial vanilla extract used to come from beavers butts :P
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Sonja 2 years ago
ambergris is most often just found washed ashore and in rotting wale corpses floating around in the ocean. So it's not that problematic. Healthy wales don't produce ambergris. It's something that amasses in sick, dying wales and rotting wale corpses.
Joshua Cuellar 2 years ago
"No natural ingredients." Proceeds to list ingredients that come from nature.
Maccabi 2 years ago
Vanilla is a plant # 1, and fake vanilla is made from whatever compounds the found in real vanilla in a lab. If it were made from beaver it wouldn’t be cheap.
Maccabi 2 years ago
On the other hand, red coloring is sometimes from beetles, but much less that it used to be.
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"Fish sauce. The base for many many Thai dishes. Fish is fermented for 6 months with salt until it breaks down into a thick slurry. It is then strained in the sun and after that stored in containers for years. But you know what, it is delicious and I'm eating it forever."
Andrew McLoughlin 2 years ago
I'm glad to know it's still made properly! I thought you were going to tell me it was all hfcs and rat urine now or something. This is happy news.
Drago Obelov 2 years ago
So what ur saying is, fish sauce is made of fish? Sounds good to me...
Principe Raphael 2 years ago
Cool Whip contains similar ingredients to lubricant. Sexual lubricant.
#18
"Viscose. I wanted to make myself a viscose dress and thought it was a good idea because it's cotton and it must be as eco-friendly as possible. Turned out viscose production creates tons of waste and is really, really bad for the environment. Needless to say, I'm choosing another fabric."
Mihai Fox 2 years ago
"thought it was a good idea because it's cotton". Do People also think that poliester is cotton?
A S 2 years ago
Ugh... Polyester is horrible. I hate it. And so much fashion is made of it. It blows me away that a designer name brand will use it to make their clothes & still charge up the wazoo. It's an incredible cheap, synthetic fabric. In fact, It's a "plastic derived from petroleum". Who wants that garbage next to their skin? Yuck!
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A S 2 years ago
Viscose is Not cotton! "How is viscose made? Viscose is derived from the 'cellulose' or wood pulp from fast growing, regenerative trees such as eucalyptus, beech and pine, as well as plants such as bamboo, soy and sugar cane." It's genuinely one of my favorite fabrics. For my needs, I find it sturdier & easier to clean/wash than silk but just as airy & light (silk actually feels sticky & kind of gross to me whereas Rayon & Viscose don't)
mandy the capibara 2 years ago
Tencel is quite like viscose, but it is s closed-loop system, so that would be your more sustainable option. And, obviously if possible using vintage/secondhand fabrics is always the more sustainable option, because no matter how sustainable something is, production of new materials and products always has a negative environmental impact.
Matt Harrell 2 years ago (edited)
Viscose is a semi synthetic made from trees and is also known as rayon. How in the world did you ever think it was cotton?
Teri Lynn Tracy 2 years ago
No, viscose is wood pulp, usually beech. Beech is used because it grows quick.
#19
"Anyone who enjoys sausage and respects the law should never find out how either is made."
Undercover 2 years ago (edited)
Living on the countyside I know that sausage is mostly made of less valuable meat. Older animals are just "good enough for sausages" 😂 Imho it's not bad to use most of the parts of a slaughtered animal, less wastte products and they still can be yummy
that.bitch.mae 2 years ago
You don't have to eat hot dogs and sausages if you don't like em but they a good way to use the whole animal so if we're gonna eat meat, might as well eat all of it instead of wasting it
Sami-Jo Ross 2 years ago
Even if sausage is made of scraps it still tastes good. Y'all never seen how a hotdog gets made?
Sans Serif 2 years ago
"Even if sausage is made of scraps it still tastes good." - precisely! It's an effective use of scraps as a medium where many sausage varieties are all about spicing, anyway. My chorizo would not be any better if it was made with tenderloin...
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Well if you assume a sausage is made with prime cuts or meat lmao..... You probably should take this dude's advice...
Sonja 2 years ago
Actually, eating sausage and organ meats is better for the environment than limiting yourself to the prime cuts alone. The whole animal is edible. And if you're going to your butcher of choice and eat all parts of the animal and limit yourself to less meat overall that's better than becoming completely vegan. For the simple fact that being completely vegan means that in most parts of the world you are dependent on fruit and veggies being imported from all over the world. Some of those things have a bigger ecological footprint than locally processed meats. You have to limit the meat consum though and have to avoid mass production. And not everyone can afford that
#20
"Pickles. I am a forklift mechanic and one of our clients is Mrs. Klein’s pickles. They use giant outside vats for pickling and NONE of the vats have any sort of covering on top. Open to the elements. In the Arizona heat. One time when I was on a service call out there I decided to walk up onto the little catwalk where the workers go up to stir the mixture. When I looked in the first one I saw a dead cat(100% ferel), multiple dead rats, and more bugs than I could possibly count. About threw up right there. To this day I haven’t eaten a single pickle and I will DEFINITELY not be eating Mrs. Klein’s product ever again."
Mihai Fox 2 years ago
Maybe that factory had big health code violations, but im sure there are no rats and cats in pickles
Jessica N 2 years ago
There are definitely mouse parts. I worked at a place that packs many big names of pickles. Any vegetable product has many snake, bug and mouse parts in it, including frozen and canned veggie. There is a certain amount allowable and no way to catch all of it. It's people picking mouse parts on a line so some human error included
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MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
I wonder how they knew the dead cat was "100% feral" or why a dead feral cat would be different in a pickle vat than a domestic feral cat
BookDragon 2 years ago
Why would op never eat another pickle? They do know that pickles can be made at home, right?
Naesil 🇫🇮 2 years ago
This reminds me of a study I remember reading while back, some people get allergic reaction from chocolate but when tested they are not allergic to choco beans, what the are actually allergic is cockroaches.. if I remember correctly majority of worlds chocolate contain some amount of ground up cockroaches in it, as long as its low enough it gets pass and can be sold :)
LuLuBelle 2 years ago
Every factory-made processed food has allowable parts-per-million rates for rodent feces and hair, and insect parts. You can't live in an industrialized society and not have eaten those things.
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PJ Evans 2 years ago
Dad was a health inspector, told us years ago about ketchup manufacturing. No, thanks. Have avoided it for over 60 yrs. Make our own pickles,from grandmother's recipe. Best pickles, no "additives"
Terri Martin 2 years ago
Strange that so many clear health code violations were seen but no one was reported? Hmmm.....seems as fishy as fish sauce
MygrandsonscallmeNia 2 years ago
Do Not Eat, Luck's fried apples!!! I found mouse poop in the cinnamon fried apple's. I used to heat it up with butter, and my grandsons would eat it up! I found two poops in it, called the company, and right off the bat, they wanted to give me $25. I made them give me $50, and promise to take it off the shelves. Because,,my grandsons ate the apples, before I seen it! No one got sick, but I was sick seeing it, and knowing,they ate it before I seen it... Didn't get removed from shelves either!
Sandra Hunter 2 years ago
Did you report your observations to the FDA or any other food oversight organization?!?!?
#21
"Grocery store food. Even the “fresh” stuff. Not how it’s made, but how it gets to you. I worked as a picker in a grocery warehouse that serves seven states. Trainees get the night shift. 20 years ago, it paid $13/hr for four 10-hour days per week (6:30 pm to 5 am with an unpaid “dinner” break). Meat juice everywhere. The “wet aisle” sometimes flooded. With gray water. But all the rotting fallen vegetable matter made it a dark brown sludge that smelled like a sewer. The regular floor was concrete... under an eighth of an inch of pallet jack grease, tire residue, and general filth that resembled a solid mat of rubber. Did anything fall? Pick it up, and throw it on the jack. You’re evaluated on your number picked per hour, and your wrong picks... no time to clean up. If a container busts, there’s a repacking room. And no, they don’t wash anything. And this doesn’t even cover the injuries and another insanity. So many stories... Always wash your vegetables."
Donkey boi 2 years ago
In the UK we often add soil to our vegetables. Once picked and gone through the production line process they are often considered too clean. The assumption is that people would think they are chemically treated if they see them that way, so they add soil to "dirty them up".
Sordatos 2 years ago
Oh yeah absolutely, everyone has the time, resources and space to do that!
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Abbelius 2 years ago (edited)
This reminds me. I went to Grocery Outlet last week, and about half their produce section was rotten. Whatever was sagging when it shouldn't have been, and quite a large portion covered in mold. Having worked in retail, myself, I would like to say I was shocked. But I remember on more than one occasion my former manager giving me write ups because I kept throwing out food product way past their expiration date (example: those bags of mini donuts? I was stocking shelves one morning, and some of these bags had gone and expired in 2019. It was 2021, but apparently our store had a "must sell" not "must sell by" policy). God forbid I was worried about people possibly getting sick from consuming expired food. Always, always check the dates. For produce, for dairy, for sweet treats, and yes even canned food. I know with cans it takes a while for it to go bad, but I promise you some stores do NOT care.
JazzyfromtheNati 2 years ago
Wanna hear something funny, and plz don't take my word for it, Google is your friend. The FDA doesn't require, monitor, control, etc. expiration dates in any way shape or form. Companies can literally come up with any arbitrary date that they would like, thus using the most powerful motivator known to man, FEAR, to get you to stop using your common sense, and God given senses, and throw food away and buy more! Expiration dates on honey?? You realize we've found honey in the pyramids, that was perfectly safe and still edible! I know, I know, everyone will say, "it's not cuz the product is bad, it's the plastic it's housed in that breaks down"....... Well then, if you give a c**p about your consumers, stop selling it in containers that eventually turn your products into poison! But no no no that'd be too easy. Just for fun, ask your friends/family, guaranteed there's at least 1 household that does zero other inspection of fridge and pantry other than expiration date, and throws things ou
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j robin estrella 2 years ago
always wash your veggies regardless. where do you think farm workers go to the bathroom?
Drago Obelov 2 years ago
Sooo... continue to clean fruit and vegetables. Check. Changing nothing. 👍🏻
Brain Teezer 2 years ago
Do you think people need to hear this in order to wash their produce? Just asking as it seemed a given to me that this was just standard practice
Joshua Cuellar 2 years ago
Stop complaining because 20 years ago $13/hr for picking fruit is absolutely ludicrous. 13 back then is about $21.75 today. To pick fruit? Stop cryin dude. You got hired at that amount. Pffft. I bet you left at like $28hr equivalent and still cry about it
Shawnna Clement 2 years ago
We missed getting ill from a bed batch of cantaloupe because I always soak fruits and veggies in the sink with a capful of plain bleach. It's not even enough to smell the bleach. Women in my family have done that for at least a 100 years.
#22
throwaway36295224 said: "Fruit smoothies. People think they're getting their daily dose of fruit, but that's mostly ice, yogurt, and high-sugar juice with only a few pieces of solid fruit. Source: I work at Boost." Reddit user replied: "Same. Worked at a place called “Blenders.” I would tell everyone that what they’re getting is essentially a dessert/ice cream shake. See, you had yogurt it sounds, as your primary ingredient (we did too, but it was used more as a different choice), but ours was “ice milk”, which was basically ice cream."
Me 2 years ago
Hospitals use those types of drinks for people coming off of ventilators. Hopefully Ensure is more nutritious.
Aiodensghost 2 years ago
Ensure tends to be. Source: struggle with vitamin deficiency and autism that can cause bouts of anorexia
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Worst Cop in Britain 2 years ago
Weird. I guess it depends on the place. I go to jamba and get a peanut butter protein smoothie that I watch them make. Know what goes in it? Milk, ice, whey protein, banana, peanut butter, honey. Done.
Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
That’s why I make smoothies at home. My smoothies are mostly fruit. Just a couple spoons of yogurt and about a cup of juice to mix it up. And I make a whole blender full
LuLuBelle 2 years ago
Make your own smoothies. It's not difficult. Use honey or maple syrup so at least your getting valuble nutrients with your sugar source. This really isn't rocket science, people. No sane person would put into their own hand-made creation the massive amount of sugar used in commercially made smoothies.
Sonja 2 years ago
The smoothie shop I go to make them right in front of you, they only use frozen and fresh fruit, sometimes a scoop of unsweetened yoghurt or buttermilk and icecubes that get blended in. If you want your smoothie with carrot juice or orange juice they have a juicer you can see and they put fresh, raw fruits in and juice comes out. Definitely no added sugar or ice cream. That's a smoothie. And that's what you get when you make a smoothie at home. What OP describes wouldn't be allowed to be sold as a smoothie here. That's not a smoothie. But as always, people don't want to pay for the real thing. At my favourite smoothie place the smoothies are expensive. That's because fresh produce is expensive and you get what you pay for.
Terri Martin 2 years ago
I've never purchased a smoothie from any restaurant or retailer but I know what's in my fruit smoothie. It's fruit and almond milk. Nothing else so I'm confident I'm getting fruit.
Nicholette Lyman 2 years ago
Unless you make it at home. Fruit (usually frozen, giving waaay more variety), lemon juice, fresh squeezed oj and blend. Pure fruit.
#23
"This reminds me of a documentary series my dad once watched. Garlic. The garlic industry is a hell of a lot darker than most people would think. I don't remember everything, but apparently, a lot of Chinese companies that sell to restaurants overseas use prison labor. These inmates have to peel the garlic completely by hand, with no tools whatsoever. There were a few inmates missing fingernails. If I recall correctly, one man said that he had a friend who had to resort to using his teeth because he didn't have any nails left. They work unimaginably grueling shifts, in which they have to meet a quota for the day or face consequences. They get paid very little if anything at all. They all seemed so miserable. The series is titled "Rotten", you can find it on Netflix."
Anaïs Grobin 2 years ago
We buy a ton of it at the farmers market every summer and can it. Jars are 3.99 at my local grocery store, we make a jar at home for 30 cents.
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Laura Mandado Cacho 2 years ago
What, they don't sell garlic in it's natural form where you live? In Spain we usually peel our garlic when we are going to cook it, we don't buy it ready to throw in the pan
Steph B 2 years ago
Eh depends on what they're in prison for honestly. If they're murderers or child killers, I don't mind them losing nails
Zachary Lawson 2 years ago
These people are in "camps" because of their ethnicity/religion. Google Chinese Uyghur genocide, it's horrific.
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Coasters ForCritters 2 years ago (edited)
My family runs the biggest and oldest garlic farm in South Dakota. I can say for a fact that peeling garlic for sale is not fun, and you do get blisters from it. I can't imagine doing that every day for that many hours.
Joshua Cuellar 2 years ago (edited)
I have a feeling a lot of these "prison labor" and "slave labor" are lies. NOT ALL, but how can someone be a slave if they get paid? Js, it sounds like they choose to work there because they have to because their gov doesnt care about humane work practices. THATS what it seems like.
Terri Martin 2 years ago
Using prisoners for grueling labor is happening right now in the us even. Prisoners making 2 to 4 cents per hour is typical.
#24
hi_im_a_coffeeholic said: "Mica products. I watched a documentary about mica mines in areas where child labor tends to be exploited and the interviewer asked this girl about her experience and she described how her sister died in the mine and she's still working there. Mica is in almost all beauty products and due to the change of hands it can be hard to determine if natural mica is actually ethically sourced. However, after watching some soap-making videos, I've discovered that Mad Mica sells sparkly stuff that neither puts children at risk nor destroys the environment with microplastics. For those who want their cake and want to eat it too." akemikemss replied: "I watched this Refinery29 video and was compelled to go through every makeup product I own. It takes a lot of research to find ethical or synthetic makeup products nowadays."
Terri Martin 2 years ago
Most people don't know or don't care, that any make up product sold in the USA that also sells in China is required by law to test on animals. So all the LIES of Mac, Sephora and NARS etc continue..... These are not cruelty free but all these people continue to buy. 😏 Do your homework people!
#25
"Menopausal people, if your doctor tries to prescribe you Premarin, ask for an alternative! The hormones in this drug are extracted from pregnant mare urine (it’s in the name, don’t have to look too hard). These horses are tied in a straight stall, hooked up to collection devices without adequate room to move or lay down. Once the foals are born, they are re-bred as soon as possible to continue the collection cycle. What happens to the foals? Some get sold/adopted to loving homes, the rest get shipped off to become IKEA meatballs. They’re just a byproduct all in the name of getting rid of your hot flashes. (Not a crazy PETA vegan, I just own a 21-year-old cast off from this industry who has had a lot of issues to work through as a result of his early life experiences.)"
Donkey boi 2 years ago
As far as I can recall, despite the claims of animal cruelty, no investigation or inspection has ever been carried out by the regulatory bodies. That does concern me.
PcktFox 2 years ago
People make these claims with zero documentation to back them up, so I'm never sure what's true, what's exaggerated, and what's an outright lie. Inflammatory language like "the rest get shipped off to become IKEA meatballs" doesn't help.
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Zachary Lawson 2 years ago
I fell down this rabbit hole after something I saw in that old sci-fi show, Millennium. Lots of places have banned the farms but they are still big in Eastern countries, although I believe the biggest producer is actually Canada. They shock the mares' uteruses with a special vaginal stun gun many times a day to scar it and endanger the fetus, causing enhanced estrogen production for more potent urine. You've got to be a straight up super villain to be any part of this system. There are people out there walking around brainstorming ways to make better stun guns for vaginas. Somebody please get this info into viral content, there would be absolutely no work at all in getting people outraged by this.
Ches Yamada 2 years ago
I'm perimenopausal now and it's he11. It's worse for me because I'm bipolar and supposedly hormone fluxes like that make it worse (puberty was also he11 for me). I don't take medicine, but am seriously teetering on the verge of looking into it because I feel like I'm going insane.
Stephanie 2 years ago
I'm so sorry. People don't talk about just how AGONIZING menopause is. It's close to life ruining. I know. Society seems to think "it's just some hot flashes" so we should be able to handle it better. I have chronic pain. Each hot flash, whis is terrible enough on its own, triggers a pain episode. Doctors don't even seem to put the necessary urgency upon the situation leaving us to do our own research. Again in so sorry you have to suffer. I've had to go on estrogen and progesterone for the last 8 years or I'll be in unbearable pain.
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Rebecca Savercool 2 years ago
I feel this needs to be higher on the list! I worked with a horse rescue for nearly a decade and we had numerous Premarin foals come to us. They get sent to slaughter, because there is no use for them once the mare gives birth. They just get her pregnant again to use the urine and the process continues. We've even had a mare who couldn't race so she was used as for testing. She went through so much trauma. There is just so much in the horse industry in general that is horrible and sad. Once people don't have a use for the animals they once used and broyght them money they just get sent to the slaughter house.
imgonaarickrollyousohard 2 years ago
I could really go for some IKEA meatballs right about now
CrysCharming 2 years ago
This is a TRUE story, at least it was. In 1996, at age 25, I had to begin complete hormone replacement and Premarin is the only hormone drug I did not have bad side effects. I was very happy with my prescription until I discovered how it was made. I immediately through what pills I had left in the trash, refused to take them pissing off my husband, mom & doctor, and told every person I could about the cruelty & torture involved in the manufacturing. If hot flashes, mood swings, night sweats and putting on weight hasn't killed me in the last 26 years without hormones...... then saving ANY living being from existing in 24/7 fear & pain was more than worth every time I stuck my head in the freezer or apologized to hollering at someone. That being said, there was so much backlash, hate & boycotting once this process became public knowledge that the company created a synthetic replacement and ended the abhorrent practice using horses. No life is more valuable that another's.
#26
"Food. As an old, ex waiter most people would be shocked at how their food is prepared and the lack of quality/effort that goes into it. I’m not covering fine dining as I never worked in those establishments. I’m referencing the average dining experience for most people (ex Olive Garden, Applebee’s, you’re a local sports bar, etc.) everything was low cost and low quality. Watch the movie “Waiting” for an example, 80% of that goes on at an average chain restaurant."
Shayla Katherina 2 years ago
You're basically paying someone to microwave food for you half the time.
DippityDooDerp 2 years ago
Worked at Chili's for about a month. Everything there is packaged products and microwaved. Literally everything.
Load More Replies... Sordatos 2 years ago
I own a restaurant, is not fine dining at all, but sure as hell we make sure everything is up to code and hygienic
Matt Harrell 2 years ago
Up to code and hygienic doesn't always mean not microwaved, though.
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OP was just a piece of garbage. I worked in multiple restaurants for years, and I never saw any of the stuff from "Waiting" going on. IIRC, that movie showed people spitting and shaking dandruff into food. If I ever saw something like that go on, I(and everyone i worked with) would have reported it to police.
Anaïs Grobin 2 years ago
I used to work at a Dennys and I had some guy tell me how much better the salad was at olive garden. Both restaurants were owned by Darden at the time, and the bagged salad were exactly the same. A bag of mostly iceberg and romaine with red cabbage and carrots, in a bag marked Darden Garden Salad. All Darden restaurants got the same bagged mixed. Same went for the salad dressing (except the ranch, that was made in the restaurant), but most of them were the same. The meats sometimes were, too. When the olive garden down the road ran out of chicken, we loaned them 2 boxes of "Darden boneless chicken breast" until they got their next shipment... I'm sure things have changed in the last 10+ years, but that's how it used to be in the 2000s.
Bethany Tomchick 2 years ago
Good call on the movie Waiting being pretty darn realistic. Have spent years in the restaurant/bar industry and it's pretty accurate.
Drago Obelov 2 years ago
You must worked in some terrible place. I know many people who worked in the industry. A family owns few pizza places, another friend owns 2 bars. Been in there kitchens a bunch of times over the years... Nothing like what ur saying... So to each their own I guess...
James Heinle 2 years ago
As a former cook, I've seen some questionable behavior in restaurants but to say 80% that happens in restaurants is extremely exaggerated. I have never seen the brain, the bat wing or the coveted goat.
#27
"Not exactly a product, but certain legal services. A lot of times lawyers are just filling in blanks from a template when drafting documents, and many problems can be resolved with a two-minute online search if you know where to look. If the public had the knowledge of and access to the resources available to lawyers, there's an awful lot people could figure out for themselves. Of course, that's not to say it's a good idea to DIY a legal matter if you don't know exactly what you're doing. Just that the prices people pay for certain legal services aren't commensurate with the amount of time and effort they actually take the lawyer to complete. I am a lawyer myself, and I'll echo others' comments by saying that you can seriously screw yourself or your loved ones over by doing even something as simple as a will incorrectly. In matters above a certain level of complexity, it would be insane to even consider representing yourself. The point still remains that my clients might think twice about how much they paid me if they watched me draft their deed in six minutes."
Mihai Fox 2 years ago
4 years of law school, 1000's of pages, 100's of laws studied, realy hard Bar exam but you can get it done in a two-minute online search :)))
Shine Chisholm 2 years ago
I mean, things like divorce papers often have fillable forms. Some things are available with a search.
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We're not paying you for your time so much as your expertise. I don't care if only takes 6 minutes for you to do. It would take me way longer anyway, and if you do it at least I know it's right. Totally worth paying a professional for the peace of mind. As my momma said, if you think a professional is expensive try hiring am amateur.
Stephanie Case 2 years ago
Unfortunately, a lot of times you are taken more seriously if the work presented is done by an attorney and not yourself- even if it's exactly the same documentation. Especially in the insurance fields and government agencies. You are more likely to have claims reviewed and approved sooner if they are presented through a professional representative.
Deann Markland 2 years ago
Yeah, I paid an attorney $500 to add someone to my deed. As soon as I saw the completed form, i realized I could have done it myself.
Alexa Saltz 2 years ago
I have prepared my own legal documentation then paid an attorney to review and revise. Sometimes it is a lot cheaper.
Lisa Brooks 2 years ago
Al lot of lawyers let the paralegal do all the hard stuff, researching, writing and filing motions, anything and everything for the lawyer. And in small towns, s****y pay. The lawyer signs his name, goes to court, makes the big bucks
j robin estrella 2 years ago
I handled my own divorce to the point that they told me I couldn't. that alone saved me my pension. never trust someone else with your future.
kelly walker 2 years ago
I file my taxes today with a form from 10 years ago, the one time I hired an accountant.
JazzyfromtheNati 2 years ago (edited)
I learned to do my own taxes, pen to paper, in 9th grade. Very few ppl have to itemize, or even can, and almost everyone thinks it's much harder than it actually is! I scream at ppl all the time, DON'T GO TO HR BLOCK! and the likes, they are using the exact same program you can use for free, to file for free, at home. And save yourself a butt ton of money! They have so much predatory c**p built in, it's ridiculous! Worst case you gotta bite the bullet and have them done by a pro, just find an accountant, it'll wind up costing less in the long run!
Load More Replies... T Ted 2 years ago
True in the UK too. 10 years ago I eventually went to get paperwork notarised to correct an error on my birth certificate that was stopping me getting my first adult passport. My grandfather was getting some legal work done so let me put it on his bill. The solicitor looked up the form but couldn't see where to sign it. A quick call later and it turned out the form had changed and I could request the correction myself online. The solicitor said there'd be no charge as I'd been there less than 10 mins. I thanked her and joked about how I wouldn't have put it off for 2 years as a broke student if I'd known. "Oh you're a student? How much do you earn" then asked if I'd mind signing a legal aid form. Legal aid lets solicitors provide essential services for those on low incomes and claim payment from the UK Gov. I disliked the feeling of fraud but felt like I couldn't say no. For my 10 mins no fee chat, she claimed 2.5 hours (il)legal aid.
#28
djdat said: "Processed meats. Some of it is truly nasty. Most people don't think twice before shoving that burger in their mouths." XxsquirrelxX replied: "Eh, I don’t think the main issue lies with how it’s made. It essentially reduces waste. Pig snouts don’t sound appetizing but hey if someone wants to eat that, go ahead, less wasted pig and more full bellies. The real issue is how insanely unhealthy they can be with all the additives and sodium."
Random Dent 2 years ago
That first comment is a bit vague, not sure if they mean it's the weird bits of an animal or other stuff that goes into it. But I do think that if you're going to kill an animal for food/clothing, use it all.
Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
If you go by the Bible that’s how we’re supposed to use animals anyway. Use as much of the animal as possible for food, clothing, etc
Load More Replies... Sonja 2 years ago (edited)
Pig snouts and pig tails make the best stock and the meat doesn't get dry when picked off for soup. There's nothing wrong with eating that. I have never eaten anything better than lentil stew made with a pigtail. I always buy them at our butcher because no one else wants them so they're incredibly cheap and give much more flavour in stock and broth than the 'better' meats.
T Ted 2 years ago
We should be eating as much of the animal as we can so the ground and chopped up less appetising bits shouldnt bother us. The other stuff they add to it that damages our health should bother us. And the manner in which cheap meat is reared should bother us. But perfectly edible tissue from a less than prime part of the anatomy that we can't tell is there is hardly an issue.
Biscuitbot 2 years ago (edited)
Pig snouts and rump steak sound equally as disgusting to me when there are so many alternatives that don't require rearing a sentient being for a life of misery, abuse and eventual murder ❤️
Lori Rogers 2 years ago
Watch the documentary Food Inc. That white turkey breast at the deli counter was put in a tumbler as different meat and fat pieces.
#29
RedditDevoursSouls said: "Honey. I'm thinking of the process of converting it, done by bees." Reddit user replied: "Store-bought honey. I live in a rural town where a cowboy sells honey he harvested himself. I asked how he tames the bees, and he said he's never had to use a smoking gun or anything. Beekeeping runs in his family and he's been doing it for years, so I guess the bees trust him. Natural honey tastes better than any store-bought bottle I've ever had."
Sonja 2 years ago
In Germany we have regulations that define exactly what a product is and what can get added. For a while Langnese, a company, was not allowed to sell their honey as honey, because it had too many additives. They had to change back their production for Germany because regulation says, honey must be pure. No added sugar, no added water or anything else.
Glier Nemeloc 2 years ago
Because storebought honey isnt actual bee honey, if at all its part honey and.not.even half of the product.at all, if you find a honney that doesnt have crystal buildup, then it has corn glucose, that thing is used in pastry to keep sugar from crystalizing. Also what do you think your very cold but curiously soft icecream has? Yep anticristalizer glucose
Liz Reece 2 years ago
My parents had 9 hives when I was a kid, and hubby's cuz has 4 we look after. The reason store bought honey tastes different is because all the honey is mixed together to bottle it, and because they pasteurize. I personally can not stand clover, or any dark honey. Ate too much as a kid... But oddly enough, Privet bushes make an amazingly light and tasty honey. Also, pretty much any fruit trees do too...
Glier Nemeloc 2 years ago
In México, theres a species of honeybee that gives honey so acidic that you think you are tasting lemon syrup Check the program on netflix "salt acid fat heat", on the chapter "acid"
Load More Replies... Kezza 2 years ago
It's the queen that makes the bees violent, if a hive is acting a fool the beekeeper actually goes through the hive, finds the queen and takes her away from the hive to be regicided they then bring out a new queen they purchased that's bred to be pleasant (they put a mark on the queen with a marker to make it easier)
#30
"Certain signed artwork. Used to work at an art printing company where we did signature editions of certain pieces. Guess who did the signing me and some coworkers, we were all design and art majors so they just had us learn all the artist's signatures, we even had machines that could mimic the signatures too, I wish I had a picture of the devices they were pretty cool. It was in the fine print that we were doing it and was approved by the artists but I guarantee most people would never buy the prints if they knew the signatures were forged. So always read the fine print when buying items, especially "special" editions of stuff."
harpling 2 years ago
I used to forge my mother's signature in school when the teachers sent notes home. Little did I know I was honing valuable skills that might start me on a promising career in the arts!
Phryne 2 years ago
I did my dad's because Mom signed everything (he wasn't really involved even though he lived with us...). I figured that if anyone checked the signature, the only ones they had of my "Dad's" was my forged ones!
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Ivan Petrov 2 years ago
I've seen videos of the signature machines - that one was mechanical, and had a large metal ring with a curvy line on the inside edge - that curvy line guides the pen, and makes the signature.
Rahim Carlock 2 years ago
My real signature,no.artist.digital? Someone's already stolen my stolen signature that somebody else stole.
#31
todunsinane said: "Silk." dreadedxalchemy replied: "Extracting raw silk starts by cultivating the silkworms on mulberry leaves. Once the worms start pupating in their cocoons, these are dissolved in boiling water..."
C.M. 2 years ago
Yeah, of all the things in this post, murdering worms is the least of my worries
Load More Replies... Undercover 2 years ago (edited)
I don't like silk for the texture / look, but otherwise I have no problem with the production process. I mean, I live in a society where spiders usually get killed just because of irrational fears and it is considered normal
Matt Harrell 2 years ago
Humans don't seem to get too upset about humans killing humans in inhumane ways, but boil a worm and you're the antichrist.
Diana Robison 2 years ago
This is better than I thought... I had an image in my mind of someone harvesting spiders spinning for it... Worms is much more comforting and mentality tolerable
Froggie 2 years ago
THIS!!! When I wanted a silk pillowcase, I did my research. I was horrified! Satin is a better, safer alternative :p
jennifer kerkow 2 years ago
Satin is PLASTIC! Every single time you wash that thing it sheds billions of microplastics into the water.
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#32
Mroder1 said: "I’ve worked in 2 different meat departments in 2 separate grocery stores. The meat in the case that has had work done, (marinated or like put into kabobs) is usually the old meat we didn’t sell that is about to go bad. That marinade is hiding how sh*tty the meat looks." Reddit user replied: "That bright red color is from carbon monoxide gas treatments and food coloring additives like Red #40, and lycopene extract. The actual color of the meat is dark reddish purple within an hour after removal from the carcass. Basically, ANY meat that is red is fake."
Paulo Freitas 2 years ago
This.... Well Im European and i have seen it happen, not the coloring aditivos or the cabon monóxido c**p, but i have seen a large Supermarket chain, pulled its packaged meat products that dident sold, and sending them for its takeaway servisse, or back to the butcher to " cut off the greenish bits " and put it back in the shelf...
Bethany Tomchick 2 years ago
Definitely not. Is meat being red really fake? Why do we call it red meat then? 🤔
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"Mirrors. It involves sending miners into deep arctic caves to retrieve the element Mirrorium. It's a crystal in its natural state and apparently, you could make a 10' x 10' mirror out of just a "pen tip" sized amount. I'm obviously making this up because I don't know how mirrors are made and they scare me."
Dea Foley 2 years ago
Not silver alloy, traditionally a mercury (aka: quicksilver) alloy is used.
Load More Replies... Donkey boi 2 years ago (edited)
It's actually not that scary. They usually pour liquid aluminium (Sometime silver) over glass, add a few other things to harden and protect it. Older mirrors (Pre-1840's) were usually made with mercury (So don't eat them!) and a long time before that, we're talking ancient times, they used lead! Wanna go back further? You asked for it! Obsidian! Before that I hear you ask? Water, they looked at their reflection in water.
Madison Pheysey 2 years ago
All i know is that vampires can see the reflection now bc they changed how mirrors are made
Keilana Ferenczy 2 years ago
The modern mirror is made by silvering, or spraying a thin layer of silver or aluminum onto the back of a sheet of glass. Justus Von Leibig invented the process in 1835, but most mirrors are made today by heating aluminum in a vacuum, which then bonds to the cooler glass [source: Britannica].
anthony moring 2 years ago (edited)
I make up facts like this all the time. My wife hates it lol
Anaïs Grobin 2 years ago
Plot twist, you also made up the wife just for this joke.
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Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
Silver-backed glass is traditional mirror making, and what you're likely to find on any mirror made between about 900AD and 1960AD. Prior to that, they were made from hammered and polished metal (silver for the wealthy and bronze or copper for everyone else). After about 1960, aluminum started being used to bring the production costs down and profits up.
Bethany Tomchick 2 years ago
This was a hilarious claim in the middle 🤣 The confusion on my face as I tried to process this new material I'd never heard of called Mirrorium (that's not on the periodic table 🤔) just before realizing this was made up. You're hurting my Autistic brain with these new made up "facts". Got a good laugh out of it, so thanks 😊
#34
"Most low to mid-tier vodkas. I work at an industrial distillery where we make millions of gallons of very high-purity ethanol from corn. We have customers in the beverage market that literally just dilute our product to 80-proof or so, run it through a filter, and bottle it to sell. Those customers sell their products for anywhere from $8-$50+ for a liter. And you know what the main difference is? The more expensive vodka’s bottle is “fancier”. It’s almost all brand perception with these corn-based vodkas."
Mihai Fox 2 years ago
So cheap Vodka is the same as expensive vodka, just filtered ethanol, so go for the cheap stuff for your screwdriver;)
Jose Hastings 2 years ago
Run thru a Brita water filter and cheap vodka tastes like the most expensive vodka made
Load More Replies... James Heinle 2 years ago
I saw an episode of Mythbusters where they filtered vodka up to ten times. They had a professional vodka taster on for the taste testing. He said the vodka tasted better with each filter with the final stage filtering was equally as good as top shelf product.
#35
"Fresh juices are not so fresh apparently. A friend whose family owns a mango orchard told me these companies buy the leftover stock that doesn't sell directly and leave the rest to strong artificial flavoring for uniform taste."
Paulo Freitas 2 years ago
Deppends of the company of course, yes Juice companies buy the less " apetizing " fruits, the " Ugly " ones that are not sold as whole fruit, but not all of them use artificial c**p on them.
Scott T Brynildsen 2 years ago
Ugly vegetables get used to make salsa and sauces and soups. The reason their sold separately is because people fall for the imperfect vegetables BS, but it's really that they order so much from various farms that they have to rotate it out so they take the not as pretty stuff because it doesn't fit on the display at the store, triple the price, and sell it to people who hate the fact that food gets wasted. Find a local produce stand and get your veggies there. if you don't have one or access to one, start one. it's good for your health. if you don't have room for one, volunteer at one.
Load More Replies... Undercover 2 years ago
My sisters worked as apple pickers once. All the apples laying on the ground (mushy, with brown parts or other damages) were collected to make apple juice. I wonder what people are expecting? We throw enough edible foods away and sterilization kills all the germs in the end, no matter what. If you want just premium products you have to pay premium prices. Simple as that
R. H. 2 years ago
Processed cider; partial Plastic jug untouched in the fridge for a year and it looks unchanged. Filtered raw cider same way and the jug looks ready to blow eventually.
Load More Replies... Ray Arani 2 years ago
"Fresh" for most groceries just means it's never been frozen. That's not necessarily a good thing. Example, fish. Sushi grade fish is considered the highest cleanest grade, right? Well it's not "fresh". For it to reach sushi grade it has to to be flash frozen, which means freezing it within a certain time frame. This kills most parasites and bacterias that would be live still on "fresh" fish. I worked in a fish processing plant for awhile, and in agriculture as well. Load of words used in advertising don't mean what people usually think it means.
Bethany Tomchick 2 years ago
This makes me miss the fresh orange juicer machines in the grocery stores in Spain. Now that was real fresh juice. As Also so cool to watch it being made.
#36
"My job is to fumigate grains with phosphene. Wheat, barley, and oats are all susceptible to rusty grain beetle and weevil infestation. We are talking lbs of insects in a 600-ton bin. Well I gas those suckers and there are no means of removing them, so off to the mill, they go to make your bread. The gas itself is depleted by the atmosphere so it leaves zero traces behind, just 100s of thousands of little Beatles to enrich your food with a bit of protein. I’m assuming “the O natural” bread you all love is even extra spicy! Less processing. Now not all grain is infested but it does happen when the conditions are just right, I’m proud to say we do a great job of keeping the bugs to a minimum in my facility."
that.bitch.mae 2 years ago
These kinds of things don't disturb me as much as I thought they might. The other day I actually considered buying this cricket snack but they didn't have any good flavors lol
Lori Rogers 2 years ago
I've eaten chocolate covered ants crickets and grasshoppers, also fried ones (not the ants ). They were delicious and had a satisfying bit of crunch to them.
Load More Replies... Bethany Tomchick 2 years ago
More protein. I don't think this fact hurts us physically. Just mentally 😆
#37
"Coffee and cockroaches are linked in several ways..."
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
Cockroaches are natural. I'm ok with this. Sorry headless roach. Nothing personal
Brandon Parisien 2 years ago
People literally pay thousands for coffee freshly poooed out and you're worried about a few roaches?
Jason Montondo 2 years ago
Coffee is a ground up roasted bean. Coachroaches like dark warm wet biological materials for food.....clean your coffee pots and kurigs people
#38
"RVs. They aren’t insulated fully. Nothing is sealed correctly. All the electronics that are “fancy and new” are outdated and inefficient. The manufacturers use the cheapest materials possible AND all RVs are built in 8 hours. A vacation home. On wheels. In 8 hours!?"
Ruth Adams 2 years ago
This is a silly opinion. Assembly lines are there to make the basic processes more simple. Would you rather pay $100,000 more to pay a technician to individually screw every screw in your subfloor or have a machine do it in 20 seconds and make far less mistakes. The "outdated" aspect may be true, but if you're buying new and from a quality manufacturer, you're getting smaller versions of home appliances. That is entirely based on choosing the quality manufacturers. Also, they're the definition of efficient. They run off generators, they aren't always plugged in... Literally that's 95% of their selling point... Sealing is entirely on the owners, that has to be redone pretty much every year and insulation you could just do a bit more research on the front end and save yourself a lot of trouble. If you're truly buying it as a "home on wheels" you should treat it like buying a home, not letting some salesman talk you into a piece of c**p upsold 900%.
Wayne Reynolds 2 years ago
I've been building and improving on my self built RV for almost 4 years now and many people have said why didn't I just buy one, like a factory built one, and I just say they're OK for a couple of trips a year maybe, but not for full-time 4 season Canadian weather. That and I couldn't afford to buy one up front. I had to buy a small cube van and convert it myself as I could afford to. It's still way better than anything you could buy, new or used, for the 60k or so I've put into this.
Aiodensghost 2 years ago
"Nothing is sealed correctly?" PLEASE. I've yet to have a leak on my RV that requires attention because I actually MAINTAIN it. Also I bought new, don't buy used if it's more than say 3 years old because it's bound to have problems.
Wayne Reynolds 2 years ago
Exactly. After 3 years most RVs have been sold at least once. People buy one new, travel for a few months or 15k and then it sits until they decide to sell it. Same for the next owners...usually.
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FlatEarf 2 years ago
Is this a surprise? It's a large house like thing built quickly and cheaply. Does anyone genuinely believe RVs are going to actually be at the same standard as a house? It's a big box on wheels with living things inside. They are known for you can drive it across the country and sleep in it. Has anyone ever said that big box on wheels I sleep in is perfect and I bought it because it's perfect. This one genuinely made me laugh, and yes the goal is for them to get off the manufacturing line as quick as can be
JazzyfromtheNati 2 years ago
Yeah, they def are not the quality they used to be. But in all actuality it's societies fault for letting ourselves be so obsessed with outdoing everyone that we've let these companies inflate the costs of everything! I'm not even old, 43F, and I'm amazed that even the cheapest new car nowadays costs what pretty damn nice houses cost 20yrs ago......... Just sayin
Megan Lauhon 2 years ago
Currently living in an RV until the new house is built. They are sh*t boxes for sure. Got a brand new one thinking I'd spare myself the trouble of fixing an aging one. Nope, things don't line up, the AC is already busted, the stabilizer jacks aren't even....it's literally traveled 10 miles from the dealership.
Edward Apple 2 years ago
Elkhart, Indiana is the RV building capitol. Did some computer work for one firm and watched the process. Most are put together by Amish. They work fast, physically running around building station to finish quicker as they have daily quota. When done with quota, can go home to work in fields. Get paid for a full day They do a pretty good job from what I saw.
#39
MasterMirror92 said: "Parmesan cheese. An essential ingredient in its production is calf rennet, a mixture of enzymes produced only in young nursing calves." Reddit user replied: "I remember seeing a ParmesanGate video about the counterfeit Parmesan market -- the import part being only the cows in Italy have the bacteria in their bodies, which then ends up in the milk they produce, which is used to make authentic Parmesan cheese. If you're already eating cheese, I don't feel this is too gross of a stretch."
Donkey boi 2 years ago
Yes and no. If it's 'Parmesan' cheese, most manufacturers use an artificial culture (around 7-11% of producers world-wide do use calf rennet). Genuine 'Parmigiano Reggiano', the real McCoy, however, does use calf rennet.
Tessa Gregory 2 years ago
This had be googling, and I looked up some cheap parmesan I know of a local grocery store. Apparently Rennet also falls under the terms of enzymes, animals enzymes. I looked up the ingredients on the cheap parm and it said microbial enzymes. I did more googling and sometimes this doesn't imply animal enzymes but could mean from plants or micro organisms. I wish there is a better way to determine the exact origin of the enzyme, I know the dairy industry is dark and calves don't live a great life, but it's one more thing to avoid if possible.
Load More Replies... Undercover 2 years ago
Calf rennet is just a byproduct of meat industry. No calf will have a longer life if the stomachs of the calfs are thrown away. Btw, where do you think the food for your cats and dogs comes from? It's mostly made of scraps and byproducts of the meat industry.
Anne 2 years ago
The absolute ignorance about where goods come from makes me sad.
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three norns 2 years ago
Only the cows in Italy have the bacteria!!!? Rennet is not a bacteria - it's from the lining of the calf's stomach and all calves have it
Dex Wilson 2 years ago
Not all. Not even most cheeses contain rennet as a coagulant. Hard cheeses typically use it, though.
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#40
"There’s an exhibit in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago that turned me off to store-bought lemon tarts completely. It was an exhibit of white powders. No fruit. Nothing is made in a lab. Once I found out how much Hugh fructose corn syrup is in pecan pie, I stopped eating it."
indiecognition 2 years ago
The corn syrup used in homemade pecan pie is not the same as high fructose corn syrup. (Highly-processed, store-bought pies are probably a different story.)
Vain Black 2 years ago
Oddly enough Sarah Lee pecan pies taste almost indistinguishable from my home made ones using my great grandma's recipe. Plus I don't have to adjust for high altitude.
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Lauren 2 years ago
How? I've made a corn syrup free version but it still called for maple syrup. It needs a thick syrup of some sort to stick together like a pecan pie should. I would think caramelizing sugar would just make a caramel pecan pie. So again, slightly confused about how you make a pecan pie without some sort of thick, liquid sugar.
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FundyFisher said: "Gelatine." FundyFisher replied: "Imagine a giant vat filled with thousands of pig skins, being melted with chemicals (think breaking bad, body in a barrel) the protein is melted away from all the other bits and pieces and separated. The protein is cleaned and deodorized, this is gelatine. The rest is animal goo that gets dumped out. They do this process with bones, cow parts, horse parts, and fish skins too, but multiple animals are never melted together, it’s a gelatine factory, not a barnyard."
Donkey boi 2 years ago
The process is to extract the collagen, and they use the scraps from other industries (such as food and leather). Interesting point. Gelatine has been found to relive joint pain when eaten. It is also believed to improve skin conditions (but the levels are quite low so further studies are ongoing).
Mihai Fox 2 years ago
Gelatine is made from bones, big surprise. Is it better to throw away 90% of an animal and only eat the so called prime cuts?
Anaïs Grobin 2 years ago (edited)
This! Humans have eaten animal flesh and bone for the majority of known history. This reduces waste, and maximizes nutrients. Is it better to just "cut the bacon out" of the pig and waste the rest of the carcass? Obviously, no. No its not. And have these kids ever eaten soup? Most are made with stock. Stock gets it's flavor from bone.
Load More Replies... Aiodensghost 2 years ago
Now I really know how gelatin is made. That said I'm glad that it is made, it is a product made from what otherwise would be waste.
T Ted 2 years ago
Imagine other parts of the animal being melted in a small vat of liquid on top of your stove to extract collagen, protein and fat. You'd call it soup. All parts of the animal should be used where it can. Collagen has nutritional benefits and gelatine is a naturally derived and safe byproduct of the meet industry with a wide range of uses.
SMom 2 years ago
Can confirm to an extent. Many years ago I worked in a plant that only produced bacon. Pork bellies come in one side, bacon goes out the other. First part of the process is to remove the skin. The skin was sold to Knox Gelatin Co. I heard that the process to make gelatin refines to the point it's kosher. Have not verified that, but it can be made from other animals than piggies. Who doesn't like a lil turkey jello after Thanksgiving?!
#42
Cozmicshade said: "KFC Mac n’ cheese. I worked there 16 years ago when I was 14 and have never once been slightly inclined to go near it." Cozmicshade replied: "In order to serve you have to peel off an inch of burnt grease and it comes off like a piece of rubber. It’s baked Mac n’ cheese and the grease cooks out and burns on top. And to get through it on the sides you have to hammer a spatula with your other hand to get through it."
Donkey boi 2 years ago
I promise I'm not imagining eating the burnt grease and burnt edges while salivating! I'm not THAT disgusting, honest!
Diana Robison 2 years ago (edited)
I'm low-key mad they're scraping the best part off my mac n cheese 🤯😡
Load More Replies... Shawnna Clement 2 years ago (edited)
So... This person doesn't know the difference between burnt cheese and grease? When grease burns, it is a fire. Lol. Burnt cheese is the best!
Nora Petricien 2 years ago
Grease ? Wouldn't that just be cheese ? I don't see how grease could but and look like a piece of rubber, considering it's Mac and cheese it was probably just the cheese that burned because it spent too long in the oven, if it's removed it's no big deal
#43
"Crab chips. The one you get from an Asia shop or restaurant. They boil crabs while they are alive. This produces a lot of foam on top of the boiling water. It gets separated, pressed into chip form, and dried. After I knew that I stopped eating them."
Liz Clarke 2 years ago
Are you thinking of prawn crackers? They have some real ground up prawns but are mostly tapioca flour.
mochi chichi 2 years ago
Mate that's not how they're made. All of them are buying them ready, you just need to fry them. And isn't that how you cook lobsters too?
Ches Yamada 2 years ago
A lot of folks kill the lobsters first. But crabs are small and done in batches, so they don't get that treatment.
Load More Replies... Shayla Katherina 2 years ago (edited)
Wait until you hear about the way clams and mussels are cooked
Bethany Tomchick 2 years ago
Not quite the same since their nervous systems are very different. As of yet mussels and clams have not been proven to "feel" the way crabs do and it has not yet been found to been inhumane, in my understanding.
Load More Replies... Ches Yamada 2 years ago
That's how crabs are boiled. They go en masse into a pot, it would be difficult to humanely kill each one.
Sonja 2 years ago
The fun thing is, throwing them in a boiling pot ful of water is actually the most human way to kill them fast. Anything else you could do to them would be much more painful and take much longer. They are so small that the heat kills them the second they hit the water. But it's cruel to put them in the pot and then boil it, slowly torturing them while the water heats up
Load More Replies... Shawnna Clement 2 years ago
Does this person not realize that the foam is a combination of creatine and salt?
Derek Epperson 2 years ago
This isn't true. I've boiled may crabs and you can't press the foam into a cracker shape, and hardly any foam is produced anyway.
Jeanie 2 years ago
I don't even understand how pressing foam would create a chip like that unless you added stabilizers to prevent the bubbles from popping.... weird, lol
Load More Replies... Bethany Tomchick 2 years ago
I just recalled reading some article awhile back where a major world organization (don't remember which one) had done research and declared crabs as sentient beings and that boiling crabs alive is incredibly inhumane. They die slowly and in agony.
#44
"Soft Served Frozen Yogurt. Every day you scrape off a few inches of bacteria from the machine. This is normal."
Lyone Fein 2 years ago
Not all bacteria are bad. We have them living in our own intestines. We need them. That's why we need to eat fermented foods like yogurt and vinegar.
Aiodensghost 2 years ago
And one of the reasons people also take probiotics, because sometimes we need extra help that these foods can't give us (or you just don't want to consume your kimchi).
Load More Replies... JazzyfromtheNati 2 years ago
Shocking the amount of ppl who don't realize how our gut works.......
Conchinha Coraçon 2 years ago
All yogurt has bacteria. Its' part of the process and it doesn't harm you or make you sick. It's actually good for you. You have bacteria living inside you at all time you know? Most bacteria are harmless and some are even simbiotic.
BluEyedSeoulite 2 years ago
That's some crazy daily bacterial growth. You should probably take a bite, make you really regular real fast
#45
"When grapes are taken to the crusher for wine, everything is crushed. Grapes, sticks, leaves, bugs, rats, etc. Source: biology teacher ran a grape farm that supplied a major winery."
Paulo Freitas 2 years ago
Im Madeiran and during my childhood i got the chance of watching my father and grandfather making Wine, since the picking of the grapes in late august, to the pressing in what we call a " lagar ", now this was the artisanal way ( old Stone lagar and you step on the grapes to release the Juice or " mosto " as we call it ) and i have also seen the more industrial way to do it ( all mechanized ), and unless rats can fly, thats b******t.
Max M 2 years ago
Seems like these panda thread is more a, tell a false history made up but lazy peoples
Undercover 2 years ago
Yeah. It's like watching adult people who start for the first time thinking about food production. I bet they are just shocked for internet fame and go immediately out to buy the cheapest, shittiest industrial products like they've always done
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D00FINSHMERTZ 2 years ago
I work drying and juicing cherries and in 15 years I have been there we have never juiced any animals. Everything is visually and x-ray or laser sorted before the process. We have had several employees drop phones in and shut down processing lines though.
Sonja 2 years ago
I've seen wine been made many times. The grapes still get hand picked because a wine stock doesn't bear fruit for at least two years after planting, so the owners make sure they're not damaged when picked, otherwise they wouldn't have fruit the next year. The grapes are put in baskets and there are no rats or wood or anything. Then they get washed and sorted and run into the press. The vineyards I've seen used stainless steel wine presses, everything was very clean. No animals, no rats. I think there are a few bugs left. That's inevitable. But that is the case in anything else you eat. Any fruit you eat most likely contains the eggs and larvae of fruit flies right beneath the skins. That's just how nature works
Load More Replies... Sonja 2 years ago
I make my own preserves and don't believe that for one second. You already have difficulties to preserve fruit and veggies that contain too much vegan protein naturally. If there was just one rat crushed in there, the juice would go bad really quickly and you couldn't even make it into wine because the bacteria would kill the yeast. Protein cannot easily be filtered and would have very negative impact on the fermentation process. This is fake rage bait.
Kathy Gilbertson 2 years ago
Nah, used to work at a vineyard, so unless things have really changed, the grapes are harvested by hand so not much besides grapes gets in there. An occasional leaf or stem I can buy, but the rest is very unlikely.
Chris This 2 years ago
So what? You eat cows, Chicken and pigs like its nothing, but rats and bugs are a problem?
Scott T Brynildsen 2 years ago
The skin and twigs and seeds are fermented to make grappa, which is like if all your nightmares from your childhood decide to star a fight club, then spit into a beautiful glass blown swan to mislead you.
Jackie Lulu 2 years ago
Grappa is a thing in Italy; there's different kinds, like whiskeys. I tried some and thought my mouth would die.
Load More Replies... #46
"Fast food milkshakes. I used to work at a fast food place and they put in milkshake mix that is already coagulated and sometimes had mold in it. Never eating one again, from anywhere."
Katie Bowman 2 years ago (edited)
Um I used to work in fast food and this never happened where I worked because we actually adhered to health standards. I'm guessing most places don't do this. Obviously some do, though, so now I'm going to be paranoid about every milkshake I ever buy
Lori Rogers 2 years ago
Same here. If I was on the closing shift I'd be the one cleaning the shake machine and sanitizing all the parts because the management knew how OCD I get when cleaning
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Phoenix(or nix)they/them 2 years ago
Ours is never like that. Yes we have the bags of mix, but we get 2 truck deliveries a week and we always use almost every bag of shake mix before the next truck. Never mold. EVER.
PcktFox 2 years ago
So many anecdotes like this are either lies, or the person's location was terrible and they automatically assume that means every fast food location in the world is like that.
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Jill Robertson 2 years ago
I can't speak for other places, but I worked at a couple different Wendy's and the Frosty mix was always fresh. The machines were emptied and thoroughly cleaned daily.
Brandy “Serenity” Holder 2 years ago
I've worked in multiple fast food places that served ice cream and milkshakes and this did not happen! Particularly Sonic, where the bags of liquid ice cream mix (we just called it milk) were refrigerated until used, dates always checked, machine is cleaned inside and out every single night. Same with McDonald's and Chick-fil-A.
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
So Mickey D's is really doing us a huge favor by never having their machines running?
#47
"Kebab meat. Worked in a quality control company for a while, which among other things tested food for bacterial contamination. Kebab meat was so disgusting and full of bacteria we had to adjust standards so we could accurately determine how badly contaminated it was."
Shawnna Clement 2 years ago
More steps in production and and meat from several cows equals more bacteria. Hence, a quality steak can be eaten rare, but ground beef should be cooked medium well. Beef Tartare should always be ground fresh by the butcher, never prepackaged.
Vain Black 2 years ago
Tartare is perfectly safe if eaten promptly! You don't give it time to grow enough bacteria from the air, plate, (clean) grinder, etc. Bacteria is everywhere.
Load More Replies... #48
"Simple syrup for cocktails. Boil equal parts sugar and water. Let cool."
Karen Tyas 2 years ago
People don’t know this? I make big batches of simple syrup to use in my homemade iced tea, iced coffees, anything that crystalized sugar won’t dissolve well in.
Dana Tobin 2 years ago
guys, I think their point is its stupid to *buy* pre-made simple syrup when it's so easy to make at home
Thomas Hunt, Jr. 2 years ago
Well yeah. I think we learned how to do that in cooking class back in the 80s...
Lucy Shadow 2 years ago
Both work, just changes the viscosity and sweetness.
Load More Replies... Conchinha Coraçon 2 years ago
Yeah but its incredibly difficult to repruduce at home. My mom tries and many times it does come out right or gets burnt very fast. Store bought is always perfect. That's what you pay for.
#49
"Automotive vehicles. Have you ever watched the movie Gung-Ho with Michael Keaton? It's not too far from the truth."
Brain Teezer 2 years ago
My ex worked for Jeep in mid 80s in Toledo. They kept speeding up the line and workers couldn't keep up but "the line stops for nothing" was management's mantra. Workers would be forced to pee in the cars (and partly a retaliation-"a "p*ss on you" act.) Their favorite saying was, "let the dealership handle it" for all "defects"....can you imagine it's 88° and humid your first summer with your brand new grand cherokee and you swear you keep smelling urine? You take it back over and over to the dealer and they can't get to "the bottom" of the issue because it's between the chassis and the seat cushion????
Brandon Parisien 2 years ago
I can guarantee that every commercial building has at least 1 bottle of pee sealed in its walls.
Load More Replies... kelly walker 2 years ago
I actually remember that. A bit out dated by now, but still insightful.
#50
"Bagoong (Shrimp Paste) In the Philippines, there are either two kinds of seafood to make a version of this food product. A fermented fish or shrimp itself, but shrimp is more common. I shouldn't explain any further, but the gist to make the paste is a person first "cleans" their feet, then puts the shrimp into a large basin, and finally steps on the shrimp until it's decomposed."
Derek Epperson 2 years ago
This isn't true. I've seen the stuff be made. They make hundreds of thousands jars of the stuff a day at one factory. Do you really think they have thousands of people stepping on shrimp in a factory?
#51
"Most citric acid is made from black mold. This ruined so many foods for me. All that time I thought it was always lemon/citrus juice."
Aiodensghost 2 years ago
So being that my body is extra sensitive to citric acid I guess it makes me sensitive to penicillin
Load More Replies... Dex Wilson 2 years ago
Aspergillus N***r is A black mold, yes. But it is not THE black mold that you are referring to. That particular honor goes to Stachybotrys chartarum. Both of which I GUARANTEE you have touched, eaten, and inhaled at some point today. Mold, of all types are everywhere, on every surface and food item.
Bloobee bloobee bloo bloo bloo 2 years ago
People need to learn that there is more than one kind of black mold. Most black molds aren’t gonna kill you
Kathy Davis 2 years ago
Black mold sounds delicious compared to the horror of most of the other products in this list.
#52
ugagradlady said: "A lot of butter tbh. They feed the cows literal garbage, and to get as much milk as possible, they take the cows’ calves away. The cows cry for days afterward." Tapiooooca replied: "Not grass, but corn definitely is garbage for ruminants (including cows). Check out “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” by Michael Pollan. Goes into great depth about corn and a proper diet for ruminants. Unfortunately, corn is the main menu item for most cattle and it makes them beyond sick. They are meant to intensively graze for a variety of grasses... similar to wildebeests and American bison."
Donkey boi 2 years ago
As someone that grew-up with cows, posts like this one always annoy me. I spent a LOT of my time wondering WTF was going on in the States. In the UK and Ireland, standards are phenomenal, and these kinds of posts are deliberate lies and misrepresentation of facts. A few years ago I found a guy on social media called 'Iowa Dairy Farmer' that address these thing on behalf of the US milk industry. I recommend a look at his videos.
DippityDooDerp 2 years ago
Iowa Dairy Farmer is absolutely amazing. 99% of Dairy farms in the US are like the one he has. The bad ones are few and far between
Load More Replies... three norns 2 years ago
Bollocks. I worked on a dairy farm for a summer. This post is from someone who is incorrectly puking up the garbage peddled by PETA
Sonja 2 years ago
There are a lot of bad and outrageous things happening in the industrial meat and dairy industry. But still some things are highly exaggerated, just taken from a few very bad rotten eggs and sometimes outright made up. Thread carefully on what you believe. Corn is much harder to grow and much more expensive than hay, grass and just feeding them the cornstalks, it's also not making cows produce more milk. How much milk a cow makes depends on how intensive and how often it's milked. And of course the cow must be healthy and well fed to produce lots of milk. Sick cows produce less milk and if they have infections, they often completely stop to produce milk at all. Most cattle is feed with shredded cornstalks and grass or hay, which is much cheaper to grow and much faster to feed. Sometimes it's pre fermented so that it's easier to digest for the cows that are grown for meat, because then they get bigger and fatter. Same for pigs. But that doesn't make sense for cows for dairy.
Cissie McCree 2 years ago
I live in Texas. Lots of cattle on lots of land w grass which I see them eat! Also, TONS of hay. Corn is grown for ethanol ( gasoline).
Paulo Freitas 2 years ago
The problem with these posts is that they are 99% from American perspective, go to Azores islands and check how " abused " the cows are.... ( Theo are not, they roam free )
FlatEarf 2 years ago
It's not from an American perspective it is a lie and false information.
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Sinna Stevenson 2 years ago
I can't speak for all of them, of course, but I lived and worked on an American dairy farm when my kids were little. They take the calves, yes. But they don't cry unless it's time for feeding, and not until they see us with the buckets. And what we fed them was milk from the herd. And the cows that were being treated for anything, the "penicillin herd," were separated from the rest and their milk was not used. It's necessary to milk them, of course. Mastitis is horrendous, but their milk isn't suitable for consumption by anyone. And corn silage was not all the cows were fed. There were four types of feed, mixed in proportions approved by some federal regulation, on top of what they grazed. The entire barn and surrounding area were sprayed down and flooded with a sanitizing solution twice daily, after each milking. Every udder was iodined prior to milking for antibacterial purposes. It's still not the greatest way to live, I'm sure. But it's not exactly torture, either.
Thomas Hunt, Jr. 2 years ago
...this is a load of bull. If live in a farming community and no one around here does that.
#53
"McDonald’s chicken nuggets. It’s pink slime and looks like a strawberry milkshake. Once I saw the videos of healthy harvest baby chickens and the conditions chickens are kept in, I stopped eating chicken. not only that but the illnesses that those who “care” for the chickens get. From there I just stopped eating meat altogether. But that’s me."
PcktFox 2 years ago (edited)
"It’s pink slime and looks like a strawberry milkshake." B***h, that's the Tubby Custard machine. (Seriously, this stupid urban legend about "pink slime" originated years ago with a Tumblr post claiming to show how nuggets are made. The picture included was actually a screencap from the Teletubbies, and the best/most famous reply to the post was, "B***h, that's the Tubby Custard machine." I won't speak to the rest but this "pink slime" nonsense has gotta stop.)
Dex Wilson 2 years ago
Why would it stop when the vegans can spread even more misinformation so they can feel morally superior?
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Tina Pawass 2 years ago (edited)
As someone who makes chicken nuggets, this is so not the truth. If our meat looked like a strawberry milkshake the USDA would shut that down in a heartbeat
Rhiania 2 years ago
Worked at a big name turkey processing plant. Personally saw what eventually becomes bologna and hotdogs. It's the closest thing to "pink slime" and the "pink slime" is bs. Like, no, the stuff isn't attractive, but....it's not that either. I don't care if you eat meat or don't, but don't spread misinformation.
Thatkamloopsguy 2 years ago
Maybe visit a real farm and stop believing the sh it you see on the internet.
Shelly Graham 2 years ago
That's so much bullsh!t, the video has been debunked. Quit spreading lies & 1/2 truth's!
What do you think ?
C.M. 2 years ago
This is one of the worst posts I e seen on BP in awhile. So much incorrect or anicdotal information being passed off as "how it's made."
Vain Black 2 years ago
One even says he made it up right in the same post!
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MLG Parrot 2 years ago
I'm getting so annoyed at the oh the calves are taken away from the cows and they cry, no they don't. Maybe one in a thousand cows are sad about the calf but it's only for a day. Dairy cows have been bred to not care about their babies, if you let it stay with it's calf it's most likely going to step on it or lay on it and just kill it without remorse, we take the calves away from the cow so it gets to live. They are given cow milk through a bottle the first days to build up it's immunity then it goes to powdered milk. Cows and calves are not abused in your generic farm, it's mostly fake posts and one bad farm that destroys their reputation.
Vain Black 2 years ago
It's colostrum the first few days and it's usually powdered too. Also how insane would you have to be to intentionally select for bad mothers. Cows give birth at all times of the day and night and usually around the full moon (people too). Cows that reject their calves are a liability to the sustainability of the herd. Dairy farms usually separate cows by size and aren't abusing their livelihood but that's about the only accurate thing you said.
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Friend Lee 2 years ago
F it, I’m mid 50s and am so tired trying to navigate this damn world. I feel guilty using those teeth flossers until I go to the grocery store and see every pallet has miles of plastic wrapped around the products. I had bacon and chocolate chip cookies for dinner. I don’t care anymore.
Aiodensghost 2 years ago
I'd actually eat most of the food on this list, ngl. Otherwise a lot of this is misinformation, some of it (silk) is accurate
Stay Off My Lawn 2 years ago
The meat in Wendy’s chili is just yesterday’s leftover burgers that were chopped up and left in the hot pot overnight. Also, I’ve never seen anyone actually clean out the pot so who knows how old the chili actually is. I’ve heard of old restaurants that have been adding to the same vat of stew for decades, so maybe this practice isn’t as unsafe as it sounds.
Diego,Laura 2 years ago
My sister is a night manager at our local Wendy's. She personally takes care of the Chilli pot, because the other people that are supposed to do the job , won't touch it. Just to let you know .
Load More Replies... C.M. 2 years ago
This is one of the worst posts I e seen on BP in awhile. So much incorrect or anicdotal information being passed off as "how it's made."
Vain Black 2 years ago
One even says he made it up right in the same post!
Load More Replies... MLG Parrot 2 years ago
I'm getting so annoyed at the oh the calves are taken away from the cows and they cry, no they don't. Maybe one in a thousand cows are sad about the calf but it's only for a day. Dairy cows have been bred to not care about their babies, if you let it stay with it's calf it's most likely going to step on it or lay on it and just kill it without remorse, we take the calves away from the cow so it gets to live. They are given cow milk through a bottle the first days to build up it's immunity then it goes to powdered milk. Cows and calves are not abused in your generic farm, it's mostly fake posts and one bad farm that destroys their reputation.
Vain Black 2 years ago
It's colostrum the first few days and it's usually powdered too. Also how insane would you have to be to intentionally select for bad mothers. Cows give birth at all times of the day and night and usually around the full moon (people too). Cows that reject their calves are a liability to the sustainability of the herd. Dairy farms usually separate cows by size and aren't abusing their livelihood but that's about the only accurate thing you said.
Load More Replies... Friend Lee 2 years ago
F it, I’m mid 50s and am so tired trying to navigate this damn world. I feel guilty using those teeth flossers until I go to the grocery store and see every pallet has miles of plastic wrapped around the products. I had bacon and chocolate chip cookies for dinner. I don’t care anymore.
Aiodensghost 2 years ago
I'd actually eat most of the food on this list, ngl. Otherwise a lot of this is misinformation, some of it (silk) is accurate
Stay Off My Lawn 2 years ago
The meat in Wendy’s chili is just yesterday’s leftover burgers that were chopped up and left in the hot pot overnight. Also, I’ve never seen anyone actually clean out the pot so who knows how old the chili actually is. I’ve heard of old restaurants that have been adding to the same vat of stew for decades, so maybe this practice isn’t as unsafe as it sounds.
Diego,Laura 2 years ago
My sister is a night manager at our local Wendy's. She personally takes care of the Chilli pot, because the other people that are supposed to do the job , won't touch it. Just to let you know .
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