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diogenescynic • today at 2:01 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

There's an entire industry of this--often operating under the term 'nutraceuticals' (i.e. food additives/preservatives) and other weird stuff. My friend works for one of these companies and was telling me to NEVER eat the Chinese sausages from Costco because they use a bunch of weird anti-fungal ingredients that they just label 'natural flavoring'. This is going on with literally everything sold at the grocery store. You can't even buy just Italian pasta and assume it's safe--Italians use Canadian wheat for most pasta which uses glyphosate. If you want glyphosate free products, you have to actually buy specialty Italian pastas that use Italian wheat. It's insane how hard it is to just eat non-processed foods.


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lostlogin • today at 2:19 AM

> It's insane how hard it is to just eat non-processed foods.

Convenience is killing us and the planet. But the alternative makes life much harder.

ragall • today at 2:16 AM

> Italians use Canadian wheat for most pasta which uses glyphosate

False. The wheat sold into the EU is not treated with glyphosate, and is strictly verified to comply with EU regulations. Canadian farmers are happy to do that because they charge more for the EU-compliant wheat than the NA-compliant one, and Italians are happy to buy it.