How Did Strange Dyes Get In Our Food?

When you buy those beautiful cupcakes and cookies at the grocery store, how much plastic are you eating?

MIT professor Retsef Levi has produced remarkable research detailing the extent of the problem of petroleum food dyes in normal products you eat every day. He did an analysis of 700K products in the USDA Global Branded Food Products Database and found over 85K products with at least one dye and some categories having well over 50 percent of products with at least one dye.

Read the entire article at Zerohedge

Food, pharmaceuticals, entertainment, news … they all seem to be ‘owned’ by just a few corporations often with many of the same members of their boards of directors. Regulatory agencies nearly always captured by the corporations they regulate. We used to have anti-trust laws that protected the public. They have either been rescinded or ignored. Monopolies are another aspect of the ‘system’ that needs to be destroyed.

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rooker jones
rooker jones
3 months ago

I worked for a member of the board of Conagra in a small business he owned. Total a—ole.

Al Buckner
Al Buckner
3 months ago

I don’t eat store brought sweets cakes, even ice cream, soda and very little candy. Home made ‘No Bake Chocolate n Peanut Butter Cookies’ is my weakness and cast iron corn bread.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
3 months ago

There are some cupcakes with icing so loaded with food colorings it would shock me if it didn’t stain your asshole that color on the way out.

Big Ruckus D
Big Ruckus D
3 months ago
Reply to  MrLiberty

Makes me think of what the purple coloring in grape Kool Aid did to us as kids. I won’t bother to explain in detail, but if you ever drank it, you know what I’m talking about.