Does it really matter?
It all looks and tastes the same just before you eat it.
It all looks and tastes the same just before you eat it.
Do you know where your food comes from??
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What an odd comparison.
So free-range eggs as oppose to factory-farmed eggs will prolong my life?
Common sense and packaging will tell you all you need to know. It's origin doesn't matter - unless it's the environment you're concerned about.
So free-range eggs as oppose to factory-farmed eggs will prolong my life?
Common sense and packaging will tell you all you need to know. It's origin doesn't matter - unless it's the environment you're concerned about.
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Packaging can be very misleading.
e.g. allergy advice.
firstly, they will put allergy advice, listing allergens but not necessarily all of the major allergens that are contained in the product, when questioned as to why something is in the ingredients but not listed on the allergy advice, you get the answer, "we don't legally have to list them." When you point out that it is actually misleading to list some but not others, they repeat what they have said. When the point of the allergy advice is so that you can see at a glance, without having to squint in the fluoro enviroment of the supermarket aisle to read 1/2 mm text in the ingredients list.
secondly, they will use a "product may contain" usually followed by "nuts/seeds, egg, wheat, dairy" and any other allergens, so as to reduce any liability due to cross-contamination in the packaging/factory enviroment.
the laws were changed so that all ingredients have to be listed i.e. "preservatives" has to show the ingredients contained in the "preservatives" it was with the change in the law that the "may contain traces of" started to happen, so really the change in the law actually made things worse in some respects, and for people with allergies reduced the foods that they could purchase.
Now you may think, but if I am buying some shaved ham from the deli then what's the problem ? It's ham. Wrong, if you look at the ingredients you will often find that it contains milk, pumped in there to bulk it up, so therefore unsuitable for someone with a dairy allergy. There are things that contain pea protein that would really have you scratching your head as to why ? Again if you are allergic to peas (more common than you would imagine as it is in the same group as I think nuts) then consuming a product with pea protein in it can have fatal consequences, not just a dash to the bog, but full blown anaphylactic shock that contracts the airway completely causing you to choke to death/ suffocate.
If you go through your shopping basket and read the ingredients on everything that you buy, you will be astounded as to what is in there and certainly wonder what the hell it is doing in there.
Obviously an egg is an egg, and the only packaging required is to stop the thing from breaking before consumption. Unless of course it been 'laid' here.....
YouTube - Counterfeit Eggs
e.g. allergy advice.
firstly, they will put allergy advice, listing allergens but not necessarily all of the major allergens that are contained in the product, when questioned as to why something is in the ingredients but not listed on the allergy advice, you get the answer, "we don't legally have to list them." When you point out that it is actually misleading to list some but not others, they repeat what they have said. When the point of the allergy advice is so that you can see at a glance, without having to squint in the fluoro enviroment of the supermarket aisle to read 1/2 mm text in the ingredients list.
secondly, they will use a "product may contain" usually followed by "nuts/seeds, egg, wheat, dairy" and any other allergens, so as to reduce any liability due to cross-contamination in the packaging/factory enviroment.
the laws were changed so that all ingredients have to be listed i.e. "preservatives" has to show the ingredients contained in the "preservatives" it was with the change in the law that the "may contain traces of" started to happen, so really the change in the law actually made things worse in some respects, and for people with allergies reduced the foods that they could purchase.
Now you may think, but if I am buying some shaved ham from the deli then what's the problem ? It's ham. Wrong, if you look at the ingredients you will often find that it contains milk, pumped in there to bulk it up, so therefore unsuitable for someone with a dairy allergy. There are things that contain pea protein that would really have you scratching your head as to why ? Again if you are allergic to peas (more common than you would imagine as it is in the same group as I think nuts) then consuming a product with pea protein in it can have fatal consequences, not just a dash to the bog, but full blown anaphylactic shock that contracts the airway completely causing you to choke to death/ suffocate.
If you go through your shopping basket and read the ingredients on everything that you buy, you will be astounded as to what is in there and certainly wonder what the hell it is doing in there.
Obviously an egg is an egg, and the only packaging required is to stop the thing from breaking before consumption. Unless of course it been 'laid' here.....
YouTube - Counterfeit Eggs
Mutzo Nutzo
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Be sure where you're meat comes from....get yourself a gun and poach you're own....
"Oi gerrof moi land"
"Oi gerrof moi land"
bluebloodinmyveins
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Quite difficult in central London, unless you eat cat, dog or pigeon.
Hayee
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I was told a few years back that if there's less than a certain amount of an ingredient in a product they do not legally have to list it at all. Normal Lion bars contain peanuts, it doesn't (or didn't until recently, if it does now) even mention peanuts on the packaging. I had a nasty reaction when i was about 9 after eating one. Luckily the piriton was on hand and emergency averted!
Mutzo Nutzo
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Squirrel, hamster, badger, fox, budgies, the possibilities are endless
bluebloodinmyveins
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Deep fried Budgie, sounds tasty.
Mutzo Nutzo
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must be a real bummer having a nut allergy, there must be traces of em in most processed, food
Mutzo Nutzo
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who's a pretty boy then
bluebloodinmyveins
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Food that can talk back to you. Could catch on.
If it tastes good then sound, I'm not arsed where it's come from.
Mutzo Nutzo
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Barbarian
Hayee
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there's a warning on sainsburys organic carrots would you believe?!
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