Is it true that high fructose corn syrup and trans fat are illegal in EU? I've heard this before but I'm wondering if anybody can confirm, it sounds like a really good idea but I know they would never implement it here because that shit probably turns a huge profit for multiple big industries
think so, our coke defo has sugar instead of HFCS...trans fats became an overnight sensation here and was removed from most foods as a result.
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apparently not HFCS can be used but no one bothers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fruct … pean_Union
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apparently not HFCS can be used but no one bothers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fruct … pean_Union
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A better idea is to just limit takeaway food and soft drink to no more than twice a week, and processed food as little as possible. Then you are in charge of your diet without need of any regulation.
There's really not any need for regulation on anything if you don't want a nanny state controlling it all but this would be good for prohibiting big corporations from putting some of the worst crap in our food and using other stuff that works instead that's probably not as bad for you.
_j5689_ wrote:
There's really not any need for regulation on anything if you don't want a nanny state controlling it all but this would be good for prohibiting big corporations from putting some of the worst crap in our food and using other stuff that works instead that's probably not as bad for you.
Jaekus wrote:
A better idea is to just limit takeaway food and soft drink to no more than twice a week, and processed food as little as possible. Then you are in charge of your diet without need of any regulation.
Nothing wrong with HFCS, but the reason it's used so much instead of sugar is because we have tariffs on sugar imports which drives the price up. Blame farming states trying to protect their industry from competition._j5689_ wrote:
There's really not any need for regulation on anything if you don't want a nanny state controlling it all but this would be good for prohibiting big corporations from putting some of the worst crap in our food and using other stuff that works instead that's probably not as bad for you.
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-Frederick Bastiat
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The beating left Jocelyn Cedillo in a coma for a couple of days.
Escalona's other children told authorities their mother attacked Jocelyn due to potty training problems. Police say she kicked her daughter in the stomach, beat her with a milk jug, then stuck her hands to an apartment wall with an adhesive commonly known as Super Glue.
Deserves every single day she was sentenced to.
She deserves no parole, I can see a domestic violence case coming out of that 30 years later, she's clearly fucked in the head. At least she's not gonna be shooting out babies year after year anymore just to do shit like that. Cba to read all of that article but the CNN one on the same story said she has 5 of them already and she just turned 22
giving the nobel peace prize to the eu is actually quite consistent. the european project is the answer to countless european warsSpark wrote:
I don't know whether the Nobel Committee is A. trolling or B. completely out of their fucking minds.
members of the eu will never wage war against one another so the concept works. i think it's a good choice the nobel prize committe made
I actually do see the logic behind that. I just think the timing is absolutely abysmal - 2006, 2007, sure! But with Greece and Spain the way they are, and with the expanded single-currency experiment increasingly looking like a failed one, it just looks wrong.
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The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
Better than the historical normality where france and germany fight each other every other year.Spark wrote:
I actually do see the logic behind that. I just think the timing is absolutely abysmal - 2006, 2007, sure! But with Greece and Spain burning, and with the expanded single-currency experiment increasingly looking like a failed one, it just looks wrong.
the idea of the EU was to solve the "german question," beginning with the european coal and steel community
Yeah. As I said, if this was 2006, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
It's no coincidence. Actually I'd say its the exact reason why it was awarded now.Spark wrote:
I actually do see the logic behind that. I just think the timing is absolutely abysmal - 2006, 2007, sure! But with Greece and Spain the way they are, and with the expanded single-currency experiment increasingly looking like a failed one, it just looks wrong.
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R I P Arlen Spectre
one of the last GOP senators willing to govern, not just toe the party line
one of the last GOP senators willing to govern, not just toe the party line
He was a mercenary.
what does a worldwide financial crisis have to do with a peace prize?Spark wrote:
Yeah. As I said, if this was 2006, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
if anything, the fact that most of europe is having a financial crisis now is just more proof of how (unfortunately) well-integrated and 'peaceful' the whole union was. nothing says 'peace' (and prosperity) like lending one another economy-crippling amounts of money in a free market, no? individual protests in individual european states doesn't really have anything to do with 'conflict', per se.
So Switzerland isn't liking the situation its neighbors are in.
http://tehrantimes.com/world/102327-swi … -meltdown/
http://tehrantimes.com/world/102327-swi … -meltdown/
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Tehran times lol.ROGUEDD wrote:
So Switzerland isn't liking the situation its neighbors are in.
http://tehrantimes.com/world/102327-swi … -meltdown/
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no bias from the ayatollah at all
(Source: Russia Today)
Putin said it. Must be true.
Putin said it. Must be true.
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First crime rate rise in 20 years
Where is your God now, Steve Pinker?!The number ofviolent crimes in the United States rose by 17% in 2011, the first year-to-year increase since 1993, according to a report released Wednesday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
But the report said that the jump was more a matter of returning to the norm after historically low numbers in 2010. In 2010, incidents of violent crime experienced an unexpected double-digit drop of 13%.
The National Crime Victimization Survey measures rape or sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated and simple assault. The number of aggravated or simple assaults rose from 4 million in 2010 to 5 million in 2011, a 22% increase, accounting for most of the rise in violent crime.
Property crime was also up, the first increase in a decade. The number of property crimes rose from 15.4 million in 2010 to 17 million in 2011, an 11% increase.
Property crime includes burglary and theft, including motor vehicle theft. Home burglary incidents rose from 3.2 million to 3.6 million, an increase of 14%. Incidents of theft rose from 11.6 million to 12.8 million, an increase of 10%.
The statistics appear alarming at first glance, but experts warn against forecasting future trends based on what could be a one-year fluctuation.
"One-year fluctuations don't tell us much, if anything at all," said Robert Huckabee, associate professor of criminology at Indiana State University. "I say let's see where things go over the next 10-15 years."
Tracking decades of allegations in the Boy Scouts http://spreadsheets.latimes.com/boyscouts-cases/
Well,Macbeth wrote:
Where is your God now, Steve Pinker?!
There I guess.But the report said that the jump was more a matter of returning to the norm after historically low numbers in 2010.
"One-year fluctuations don't tell us much, if anything at all," said Robert Huckabee, associate professor of criminology at Indiana State University