American Reacts to How Americans Are Tricked Into Buying Fake Food
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not surprising! there's a reason why so much american food is banned around the globe due to health concerns
If you think in Europe its better you're wrong. Now they can put powdered crickets in our Bread,, dry Noodles etc., the EU Commission allowed it this month.
@@marcbaur677 yeah, but the info will have to be in the package.
now the put nano tech in their food wtf ?
@@marcbaur677 ,,If you think in Europe its better you're wrong.'' You just saw in the clip the difference between the italian olive oil and the american,but you still come with this. Maybe you should educate about the 80 chemical additives used in USA ,but banned in EU and the civilised world,after that we can talk about .
If your food was legal in Europe 🇪🇺 we will die from cancer, heart disease and other serious life threatening problems.
-yet a gain the problem is us that don't do anything about this!
As a European I found the most shocking piece of footage was FDA employees dressed as cops with sidearms rather than in food safe PE, checking foodstuffs in a warehouse.
i thought the same thing
They do look more equipped for a drug raid than to determine food safety.
in Germany we had a "food scandal" a few years ago...!
Nothing happened, no one got sick or anything, but it became a "HUGE" scandal
What happened?
A ready-made lasagne had horsemeat in it instead of beef. the manufacturer was sued and paid the fine
Since then we have had the saying "If it had been written on the packaging, nobody would have been upset!
Exactly, I eat horse steak from time to time, it tastes great. But if I'm buying beef I want to get beef.
Not only Germany was a all over iam from Portugal and reach us , i remember that the origin was Romania where they slaughter horses some sick and minced with beef . In Portugal the problem wasn't the horse as is legal to butcher and sell is meat , but missed label and the origin, we know what kind of horses they kill
After that scandal one local business capitalized the press by adding horse meatballs to their product lineup. 🤓
Yep. Same in all Europe. In France it was labelled the « Findus scandal », but I guess Findus was just using meat sent by a european-wide seller that « forgot » to say it’s horsemeat. And none of the food companies like Findus felt the urge to check what they got delivered with.
Yeah, same situation here in the Netherlands. It was all over the news but at the end of the day, nobody really cared. You can buy horse meat at some butchers.
I've seen several US reactors who have relocated to Europe, and said, although they didn't drastically change their diet, they lost weight, felt healthier and had far fewer bouts of sickness. One or two of them, when they visited family in the US, said their symptoms flared up again.
I've read of people who had lactose intolerant symptoms in the US being able to eat cheese etc in Europe without getting symptoms 🤔
@@LionMil1 Yep, same here!
I am used to eating the food I grow. When I eat lettuce from the market - I can taste the pesticides!
@@LionMil1 this I believe I duno what the dairy products are there but if they came from a cow they did something NASTY to that cow.
I drink my coffee black anyway but if i didnt the milk there is so bad it would convert me,
every time I been there I couldnt just have a simple bowl of cereal for breakfast I tried once ended it on one spoon full, the milk was just grose on every level......pretty sure the cereal would have killed me too reading the box
A lot of this food fraud happens in Europe too, the olive oil one for example.... abouut 20-30% of all extra virgin olive oil sold in europe is fake....(either mixed, or not extra virgin at all) mostly done by the Italian mafia...
You heard the "punishment"for the food fraud. The CEO got a $5000 fine and some "community service". While in the meantime earning maybe millions in fraud.
So that's hardly a deterrent.
Confiscating the criminal gains is not a thing?
@@DarkZodiacZZ Being a CEO he probably knows how to hide his gains. He just needs to ask his lawyers and bookkeepers.
@@DarkZodiacZZ he got a 5k fine, his gains were not confiscated were they ?
when you keep into account, that most of the trade disputes between the US and the EU are about food ...
America uses the same chemical in Bread to keep it soft as we use in the yoga mats to keep them soft
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They also use the same chemical in wine as they use in cooling fluid.
It's called H2O.
That doesn't mean anything unless you provide meaningful information.
Do you mean the US toast cake that is mislabeled as bread?
That thing has so much wrong in it. Can't imagine buying bread that was not freshly baked with 4-6 basic ingredients (I like some carrot, seeds or oat in my bread).
@@Mindcrawler23 yes but the problem we had here in the eighties with wine and cooling fluid wasn’t the use of H2O but C2H6O2.
@@winterlinde5395 I'm sure that a lot of sketchy stuff is going on in the food industry. Just wanted to say that superficial statements like the one above are not helpful to the case.
This is why Australian consumer laws are so much better than so many other countries.
Everything MUST be labelled with an ingredient list that is accurate.
We can generally tell what is in the product no matter what additives they use.
The penalties for lying on those labels are nasty as all hell too, so lying on them is not worth it over here.
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@@downundarob Capilano honey
It's like that in whole Europe, they still mange to lie and scam people as you never will be able to check everything. As for penalties it doesn't matter they calculate that into price or bankrupt company to not pay anything and then they reopen under new name and managment.
@@peterflynn2111 Conroys
That's why you are allowed to use hormones by meat production and mistreat animals etc.
18:58 I love how that American lady is focused on the scam money here, while I'm actually way more worried about health related issues. The Dollar rules in the US - she puts it on display perfectly. Nothing else matters, even for the good guys...
Sucks that they lie and cheat customers for their money, but putting in non-food substances or thinning it with cheap material, that you actually want to avoid, is way more important.
The problem is that many laws in the USA that lead to health issues are approved by the FDA. One example is the high sugar amount (6 times more than in Europe) and chemicals like azodicarbonamide in 'bread' Another major problem in the USA is the replacement of sugar with HFCS. HFCS is one of the main causes for weight problems. With sugar the body tells you 'I've got enough calories. Stop eating', but with HFCS this does not happen. It's proven that HFCS causes heart disease, diabetes, fatty liver disease and dyslipidemia, an abnormal level of cholesterol and other fats in the blood. HFCS also adds to natural bacteria in the intestines, which can produce bloating and gas. Another American thing is the use of food made from genetic manipulated sources where there is no proof that those genetic manipulations are healthy to consume. That is why the export of such products made with genetic manipulated food to Europe and other areas in the world is blocked or restricted by those countries. For example you can't sell US American meat in Europe if the animals were fed with gen manipulated corn.
The fine print on American packaging 'We don't know what's in it either, but it's twice the price, lasts twice as long and delicious'. Plus, you're so right Ian, it's all about the hip pocket.
There's a reason that many people who visit America wind up feeling sick. Australia has some of the highest food standards in the world. But even then I'm not above buying some imported grocery items from some countries that are equally obsessed with quality. Like Italian canned tomatoes, they're definitely obsessed with how ripe and fresh their ingredients are. I'll usually go for Spanish Olives and Olive Oil as well. In some European countries like those ones I mentioned people equate food with love, so they take it seriously. I'd rather pay a couple of extra dollars for something that's worth it.
Which makes you a very potential victim. Italy, Spain, France and all other EU members had their food scandals.
Big advantage, they were detected and became a scandal, in the US it is far more daily practice and common, not even prohibited.
The Californian virgin olive oil had green color added to make it look more intense, and other kinds of oils were added because only 80% needs to be first press olive oil to be branded as pure virgin olive oil.
The strange urge 'The greener the better!' has probably made the manufacturer do this.
The cheaper blend of mediterranean oils, usually are not tempered with, it's a mass product with only marginal profit. Less green, but a natural product.
Same goes for the cheap red/darkish olives, in neutral brine, not tempered with, while the black ones are ripened artificially or even colored, with dark brine. Not dangerous, but colored, and therefor not soft and sweet.
Sad thing is: it's on the label. But few people know the difference between a legal conservative or pigment.
EU-laws in matter of food hygiene are actually considered the most strict in the world, that´s why you are generally very safe with EU products. Thing is, there is no such thing as 0% risk, especially when you consider food, so it´s impossible to be 100% safe. Of course, the better the regulation, the lower the risk :) .
@@ChiaraVet Most problems start at home, not at the producer or shop.
Unclean knifes, cutting board, work surface, kept too warm for too long, and than it really doesn't matter whether it's an American or EU product.
And of course eating in restaurants!
And yes, there are differences in processing and additives between EU and US, but both are in fact extremely safe compared to others.
Beware the almighty "Italian canned" items, especially tomatoes. Some of those canned tomatoes are, indeed, grown, harvested, processed and canned in Italy. But the vast majority is grown, harvested and processed in CHINA, with the usual...adulteration...of the tomato paste. It's usually 40-50% that is "other" as in "whatever is on hand, organic or chemical that is dirt cheap and won't change the look, texture or taste too much to be immediately noticable" to vastly increase profits. They ship huge barrels of thusly adulterated tomato paste to Italy, where it is then canned and declared as "canned in Italy" without mentioning, at all, that the tomatoes used never came anywhere near to Italian soil, water or sunshine. And they're not even lying. Those tomatoes are CANNED in Italy. They're just not grown, harvested or processed there.
@@Draaca sorry but this is misinformation and a urban legend. The cheap tomato paste from China is used for ketchup and such things, but not canned tomatoes. And no, if they omit information on the label is a fraud punished with prison, so stop spreading misinformation.
In the Netherlands everything has to be labeled with ingredients mentioned. However there is always a small %, around 4ish, of a product that deviates. also in our commercials etc... no lies are allowed to be told. Consumers can sue corporations if they lie. EU laws are geared towards protecting the person...while in USA the laws are geared to protecting corporations.
No preservatives added means there was no preservatives added in the finished product. If the ingredients in the product had preservatives, that does not count.
In 1981, in a spanish company bought canola oil adultered with aniline from France (for industrial use) and sold it as olive oil for human consimption.
Estimates point at least 1800 people dead (both direct and indirect deaths due to long lasting effects), 20000 poisoned and many of the survivors had problems the rest of their lives. Other estimares point much higher, up to 5000 dead.
The list of what is allowed to be in food or happened to food before it is concidered no longer suitable for sale in the usa is insane.
The fact more people don't die in the usa from food poisoning really is a miracle.
Most of it isn't allowed to be sold abroad, that should say enough i guess.
Probably also means all the left over crap that can't be sent elsewhere ends up in the usa, and from domestic production the best stuff gets sent abroad and whatever isn't suited for import elsewhere stays in the usa.
Ensuring the usa market always ends up with the lowest quality of everything. The worlds leftovers.
There's actually nothing wrong with canola oil. Cold pressed and native has one of the best fatty acid profiles of all vegetable oils period.
The list of american foods that are banned in other countries is looooong! < As an American I would think about that!
And it's kind of creepy - as an example - that at a McDonalds in Europe the ingredients for fries only contain 3 ingredients (potatoes, oil, salt) ... as it should be! But in the US the fries contains 19 (!) ingredients instead! Fair: The color of US fries looks more delicious! Thanks to (the unnecessary) Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (< whatever that is!?) to color the food!
the use of food colouring yellow 5 itself, racks my brain, it's banned close to everywhere in the world, except for the usa and some small places elswhere.
There are even studies that have shown that it kills white blood cells, and has a high chance off giving you prostate cancer due to how much you end up with in your body due to it being used a a food colour, (luckely the EU finaly has started doing a 100% bann and swap to other alternatives, but damn they dragged their ass on it).
Lots of foodstuff banned in Europe is not banned in the US...
You are becoming more and more European, I see.
More reasonable and enlightened person in other words..! 👍
lol y'all are so funny 😆 if that's your description of europeans, what do you say about americans??
Canola oil is still a healthy oil. Low in saturated fats. Palm oil one of the worst for 2 reasons, very high in saturated fats and grown on plantations where tropical rainforests were cleared for the palm oil industry.
Wasn't 'saturated fats' are bad the product of scientific fraud from the 50's that keeps getting used by the sugar and cornsyrup sellers to blame someone else for the obesity and diabetes epidemic?
In Germany, two types of oil are considered esp. healthy because of the high rate of unsaturated acids - olive and canola. Some people don't like the taste of olive oil and therefore prefer canola (I am among them, I only use olive oil for Mediterranean recipes). And then there is a special "thistle oil" that I only use for fried potatoes - with other oils I can only eat a few bites, with thistle oil I can eat a full portion.
The FDA is a joke compared to consumer protection agencies in the EU.
Sometimes when you buy a 100% fruit juice you actually buy a upwatered fruitjuice... but the fruitjuice was made from the whole (100%) of fruit.
Example: Buy 1kg orange. Squeeze out the juice and you have 100% orange juice... maybe 3dl...
OR
Buy 1kg orange, cut them up, put it in to a blender (with the peels and everything), make an orange mush, filter it, then add water and wash out the pulp... then add the "water" to your juice... and do it again repeatedly until you didnt feel the water orangy enough. Then add some sugar to sweetening up the liquid, and add some pulp in to it.... and voila you have maybe 4liter 100% orange juice... because you used the oranges 100% ... :D
And so on with the other foods.
There was a tv series (i think) on the BBC called Food Factory. They tried to copy the industrial food processing methods in small scale, and they showed how they make them.
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One thing I do know is that if the people object to what’s going on in their food products, speak up! Get the message out there and force the manufacturers and government bodies to step up and fix the problem!
I met a lady from Harbin in China. She was a work colleague and I mentioned or rather asked her about the fake eggs manufactured over there. She was horrified that I knew about this. Then she added that rice was padded out with plastic pellets. My wife now looks at labels and if it says made in China it goes straight back on the shop shelf.
Nevermind the pellets can stuck in your gut, degrading plastic is toxic too thats dangerous af
That's been completely debunked as nonsense. Padding out rice with plastic pellets would be extremely stupid as plastic pellets like that cost WAY more than rice does by volume. Basically someone posted a video from China of some folks going throught the first step of recycling plastic bottles - putting them through a mincer that they came out of looking vaguely like rice, and some scaremongering dickhead decided to cause a controversy with it by taking it out of context.
In my house we constantly joke about the "plastic eggs" whenever we make any meal with egg.
@@stoneymahoney9106 Just repeating what this Chinese lady told me. Point being that China has consistently been prosecuting companies for adding foreign and dangerous stuff to their products. Melamine in milk for one, which killed babies. As consumers in Australia we buy from Companies we have trusted for years. Sorry but I don't trust Chinese food producers. I was an Electrician who did repair work at a Tofu factory and the place was crawling with cockroaches. Guess who ran the place.
That's nothing, you should see how they recycle cooking grease. It will make you want to puke. I'm pretty sure there are CZcams videos about it.
I can't remember if i ever had food poisoning. Maybe because i'm from Germany, or maybe because most of my meat is made from local producers, where the animals as well comes from my area (the farm is less than 5km away from my home).
When you watched content about small bakeries all over Europe, it's nearly the same with local Butcher's, they are all over the place.
I think the real advantage in the EU market is that it's got some of the highest food standards in the world and because of it being a massive market, it can source a lot of food internally and when you put the two together, consumers have a lot of choice when it comes to high quality foods.
Food poisoning is quite rare in the EU and I can't even remember the last time I've had it but it must be many years ago, food poisoning in the US tends to be much higher than in the EU and it's probably why a lot of the trade wars the EU and US have had tend to be about food, basically, the US wanting to sell lower quality food in the EU market and the EU not allowing it.
Smaller markets around the world are not so fortunate as they don't have the economic muscle to fight back like the EU can, the UK might be a prime example of that now they are not in the EU and many seems to want a bonfire on EU regulations which basically means lower standards across the board and I imagine the UK is under a lot of pressure from the US on that because the UK is in a weaker position without EU protection, there have also been some concern in the UK about the trade deal they did with Australia as they allow more things to be done with food than what can be done in the EU market and UK at the moment, basically, Brits are worried that food standards will drop with imports from Australia but if I'm not mistaken, that trade deal might get put on hold because of this.
food poisoning is usually nothing related to the ingredients, but is caused by bacterial contamination when the food goes off.
Which is typically spoilage (aka it's over date) but can be sped up through poor packaging (which can happen anywhere, usually accidentally).
Fresh food of course is at the greatest risk of it as it doesn't contain preservatives and may not have a sell by date listed anywhere.
IWrocker, I completly agree with you on all levels, not only for the US Food market but globally as well. I highly encourage you to watch another documentary called "Food Inc" and I'm pretty sure this will make your blood boil on how the food industry is controlled by very few giant corporations. Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work and videos you post
I also wanted to suggest the "Food Inc" documentary... 👍
Personally I buy very little pre-made food, prefer to cook myself from basic ingredients. That said, some things are difficult and often impossible for the consumer to detect, that's why strong consumer laws and regulations are needed (whatever the big lobby organisations say).
Sure one reason why the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States failed
The problem lies with the fact that the USA FDAonly acts on complaints, and even then will only accept scientifically PROVEN, which you, as the consumer who is alleging, MUST pay for the testing. You as the consumer *HAVE* to prove, which is why it is so widespread.
Coupled against European standards, or Australian, a complaint against a company or product, the relevant authorities will investigate for you, that is why it is is EXTREMELY difficult for American companies to break out in to foreign markets, stricter legislation.
Of course, the USA, the land of lobby organizations paying off legislators, or companies paing off the FDA.
When you make your own olive oil or buy locally and then try the one sold in other countries and feel like you downgraded from a 200€ wine to a 5€ bottle at the supermarket.
Almost feels like they are watering it down, the flavour is not as intense yet all labels say it was made either here or in Spain... Every time I start to feel like that means olives from Morocco, imported to Italy and Spain to be made into oil and bottled and then sent to be sold everywhere else that doesn't think that kind of oil sucks.
This is why i buy only fresh fruit n veg, Foods made in Australia from Australian products, fresh meats and unprocessed food in general. Not a lot of processed foods make it into my pantry these days as you cannot trust it.
You speak truth, Americans are seeing the truth with you tube and seeing how the rest of the world looks after their people, Australia is heading the way of America it creeps up on people where big business and money start to run a country, Australia has been privatising For years now standards drop costs rise .
Greed and power………all corruption boils down to greed and power…….no other words needed.
In Europe, canola/rapeseed oil is considered a very healthy oil. In Finland, the massive use of canola oil (as oil and in margarine) helped divide by 2 the number of deaths by heart attack over the pas 20 years.
That is interesting because here you hear new info that states that USA canola oil isn’t as healthy i bet it’s because it’s probably most GMO oil.
Trouble is, is that companies are required by law to maximise profit, which is why government legislation is the only thing that protects you from this kind of behaviour. If you pursue a policy of small government, pro big business and little regulation, this is what you get.
Advise 1: If you want to buy high quality Italian ingredients you should try "Eataly", it's a chain of shops you can find in LA, NYC, Boston, Vegas and Dallas or you can shop online. It's not cheap, but it is guaranteed, for the olive oil it's a good idea.
Advise 2: Try to grow something yourself, if you have a little piece of land, even a garden, put a nice greenhouse there and plant some vegetables, it's fun, it's a family activity and you'll be able to eat something really clean once in a while without big efforts. I noticed even keeping quails is worth it, they are cute and they give you delicious little eggs, just be sure to have 1 male each 3 females, every female makes about 300 eggs per year, normal egg equals 5 quail eggs.
Greetings from Italy.
If you want hunny get it from a bee keeper
Honey...
Best option: get rid of ornamental gardens and grow vegetables yourself. Keep a few chickens, bees and possibly set up an auqaponics system. Then you know what you have.
I wanted to buy a slice bread in America and I counted how many ingredients were listed. 52 ingredients, I put the bread on the shelf and looked for one with fewer ingredients but I only found 18. To make a bread you need 5 ingredients. Flour, salt, water, yeast and sugar to activate the yeast. A bread should not last more than 3 days after baking. If it lasts longer, it has other ingredients added. I come from a country that consumes a significant amount of bread per capita annually( 230 pounds) . So we take bread quality seriously.
An other reason for this, is that in US, there are no restaurants. There are only fast food chains.So everything goes. When there are small restaurants owner tend To Be careful with their ingredients.
Your very correct - here in Australia, during COVID-19, food prices skyrocketed - yes some were because of natural disasters and COVID-19 things: like supply and transportation and staff and lockdowns etc .........
BUT
The supermarkets, both made record profits !!??
Same with petrol prices Adrian, seen any shortages at all? Yeah, me either.....More record profits !!!!!
@@MickH60 yep - and none of our petrol comes from Russia - seriously - with the take up of electric vehicles and better economy, the demand would go down, supply the same, so cost should go down, but they restrict supply to keep profits.
Same with electricity - solar, wind take up, some off the grid - so demand down, supply higher than ever, particularly with feed in, so price SHOULD come DOWN ...... but, it has skyrocketed.
With all the profits they have been making for so long - why haven't they invested in increased pole and line and grid capacity and getting the damn things underground - then storms and fires wouldn't have such an impact, physically and financially
With everything that is going on - people don't need extra financial burden when it can be avoided
Kids are then fed this crap by unsuspecting parents who think they are doing the right thing…Wonder why so many food allergies happen…..
Hi Ian, here in Australia this shit doesn't go on here because of the eye watering penalties given to ANYONE'S court doing it, and it's just straight up ILLEGAL. YES, they do need to get MORE money because of bloody shareholders, they want their profits and they want them NOW. With the olive oil, it's all in the wording, 'blended' blended with WHAT. It could be anything. See this is where Australia is different, we have a law that is the 'truth on labeling' law, so what it says on the label IS exactly what you're buying and if not there's HUGE penalties. Seeya Rob
Fraud with sea food is common all over world. Lots of fish get mislabeled. Especially as a result of stocks massively declining in some cases and areas.
Olive oil is also a very common issue in Europe. It's a limited commodity but demand keeps increasing.
One of the weirdest things for me is american mustard. I have no idea how it is made but there is no way there's actual mustard in there. Just looks super artificial to me, more like paint than food tbh. But I guess that doesn't even qualify as fraud since that just seems to be how mustard is in america.
in Europe everything that is sold as food must be previously controlled by the state in order to be sold, instead for the FDA anything can be sold as food before being controlled; so in the usa you can feed on legal foods today that maybe after a few years the FDA considers toxic
Wow .. what an eye opener.. now we know why Aussie food tastes soooo much better and more natural tasting than American food. Take care and stay safe Ian and family. Love from Australia :-)
The problem with the FDA is that something has to be proven to be bad for you before they will ban it in food. In many other countries, UK, Europe, etc. if there is even a suspicion that it may be bad for you it is banned until proven safe - I prefer that option!
@@douglasmcclelland Yep, first they poison you and then they skin you bare for private healthcare, but the good part are that you then are can be free and brave enough to go buy a gun to blast your head of so your entire family are not dragged down by the debt from the treatment needed to cure you from the longterm exposure to the poison.
The American population need to understand that multiparty democracies with one chambered parliaments are better and faster to respond to the needs the population actually have. Your Lobby laws would juridically be corruption in ANY EU nation. Remove electoral college and give one vote per head of all legal residents. NO voterdistricts inside a state, that have been an increasing cause of voter manipulation in USA.
Give a taxfinanced fee per vote to candidates and parties. Politicians tend to serve those that pay them, it should be the American population.
USA (and Canada/Australia) are optimal placed to transition away from fossil fuels, because of the waters you have access to. Western produced offshore mega windmills today are CHEAPER than fossil fuels to produce energy and combined with green hydrogen production from these mills you can ensure emission free energy no matter if there are wind or not. Off shore windmills only have 3 % when there are not enough wind to produce so collectively it are cheaper overall. Oilcompanies like Exxon have known all about the damage their fossil fuels would cause for over 50 years and have spent billions to deceive you and use your lobby laws to make sure both parties did not make laws preventing their lethal products to dominate supreme.
You have been held for fools for to long by smart oneliners and wordblubber and massive manipulation.
WE are out of time. ACT!
I agree with! From Australia.
It may say in the vid but I'm pretty sure American food only has to be 51% of something to be labelled as that product.😮
I find it interesting that the FDA is a shame, take a look at the fee structure to obtain approval for a simple cleaning product ($250,000 +) and the timeline to get approvals, then ask yourself....where does the money go? Obviously not being spent on the critical areas of food safety.
When they say "garden fresh" probably means it's been frozen for six months. We have bread that contains Australian wheat but made in Ireland and frozen and sent back to Australia! The reason, tax rates are super low in Ireland for foreign multinationals.
I remember Coles several years ago was fined for misleading labelling as some of their in house bakery bread was incorrectly labelled as made in Australia ( or something like that) but it was only baked in Australia as they used imported frozen bread dough.
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As I understand it corporations have a legal obligation to maximize profit for their shareholders. The combination of their limited liability and weak regulatory action can mean it's cheaper to do something unethical for profit, then pay a much smaller fine or class action if ever confronted by consequence.
Olive oil: Anything that says blend is not pure.
I don’t understand - canola oil I believe is Rapsöl - that’s one of the best oil why it’s bad in your opinion?
Yes there is a huge difference in the quality - but it’s better for very hot processing e.g. potato chips.
I couldn’t eat dishes made in hot olive oil - I get stomach ache - I hardly can smell it. Cold in a salad it would be ok.
Love from Austria 🇦🇹
That's a common myth in the USA. Canola oil is one of the heathiest oils. You can get unhealthy degradation products from canola oil through poor processing or if you heat it up to very high temperatures, that's where the myth comes from. Canola oil just happens to be cheap and healthy.
With regards to food poisoning, considering that a lot of USAmericans won't go to a doctor when they get sick, there could be millions of cases of milder cases of food poisoning that occur that never gets reported. Food fraud is not just a problem in the USA though, it's a worldwide problem that's hard to beat simply because of the sheer volume of food that is produced and sold around the world. Dried oregano is one that's become well known, at one point not that many years ago up to 80% of the world's oregano was produced in one part of the world and mixed with other plant matter to bulk it up, varying largely by exactly which farm was growing it or which factory was processing it. There was a major crackdown on it, but the problem persists. I recently bought some here in Australia (imported) and noticed it wasn't pure - I grow my own but didn't have enough to use so bought some, and when you know what it's meant to smell and taste like because you grow and dry your own, you can tell the difference. But most people don't grow and dry their own, so they have no idea.
Great video and love your honesty. Greeting from Italy and Belgium 🇮🇹👍🇧🇪
Human bean? Classic.. this fellow bean is really happy that the food labels on our food is taken really serious here as you've seen in Straya.. star ratings really help the consumer it doesn't really help with cost but an informed decision is always a better one. Knowing what should be in your products helps too..
I think to a large extent USA have these problems due to lack of rules and regulation. used to be a cheese buyer for a eurooean super market chain. I was at a food fair in Germany and a group of American cheese producers oresented their products there.. selking feta, parmesan, gouda and more. Those products had absolutely nothing in common with the European originals. I had to explain them that I could not buy from them.. even if I like the producs...but they did not comply with EU rules..and I never made it past looking at the labels.
There is a thing called 'IBM Food Trust' that is a blockchain style solution that allows the consumer to know *exactly* where their food has come from.
Oooh, the colour is MUCH better today!!
This is why Australia makes them put a label explains the ingredients and place of the contents where it's sourced and made, aldi has cans of fruit that look australian in design but contents are from China and made there and tastes foul, and if there found not to be correct its banned and taken off the shelves and there fined big time, and there tested lots here so yes they get caught out
My brother works in the meat industry business in Europe and he told me about reverse 'fraude' going on. There's industry meat and there's meat of animals that had a happy life. But there's way more 'happy life meat' than industry meat if you look at demand, so often happy life meat gets mixed in with the industry meat. And happy life meat is more expensive. So they are actually selling it for less than they could. People would rather have happy life meat, but often choose the cheaper option instead. Now they're eating happy life meat without even realizing it.
Is canola oil bad for you? In the UK we call it rapeseed oil. It's low in saturated, contains onega-3. it's a good source of vitamins E and K and is very versatile as well as relatively low in price. I guess if your spooked by GM and have been duped into thinking the use of hexane in the production process is scary, because it sounds "all chemically"you might think it's bad, but is it? Is it, really worse than any other fat?
I've heard you guys over in America clean your chickens with bleach , seeing it tastes better then normal cleaning? , thats just one of the many things said about food difference's between Europe and America , you can correct me if i'm wrong ofcourse
with chlorine ... and it is not the chlorine washing itself that is bad, but that the production often is not clean enough without the extra step of chlorine washing, and all kinds of unsanitary production (including how the living chicken were kept, the slaughtering process, etc) can easily be covered/hidden by this chlorine washing.
The problem with the rich and their greed is that they are never satisfied.
Earning enough every year to last a lifetime? Got to earn that much every month, then every week, every day, every hour.
And they just horde that wealth, they don't spend more than a fraction of it and they don't pay taxes.
Corporate mindset: If your revenue doesn't double every six months the company is failing, even if it has consistent billion dollar profits.
You need perpetual growth in a finite world, and when the bill comes due, just declare bankruptcy and start a new company.
The world where CEO's get paid millions and workers cannot afford bread.
And gov backing them with our money.
That's why I reject authority, especially government institutions.
And the bread isn't even real ,,,,🙄
You forgot to mention the stockholders that want to see a return on investment, which of course means short term gains above all else.
As to government, a government is kind of the only thing that can keep a big corporation in check. Sadly in a lot of countries the rich have corrupted the governments so that they serve the rich instead of the people.
Getting rid of governments is not the solution. The rich and powerful would just run rampant without even the last bit of restrain.
perhaps the FDA should have an increase in funding to monitor more than 2% of Import Inspections
what use do they have at all, when most things are considered "safe until proven dangerous" in america (at most they need a small stamp on the label "contains xyz" or "may have onwanted effects for some", so that you can research it yourself), while in europe most things have to be profen safe to be allowed to be used or sold. there are lots of carcinogenic colors and other ingredients which are considered "not too dangerous in low amounts" and thus allowed in many products, not hitting the allowed cap in any single one, but what about adding up the amounts from eating 10 such products (example: yellow5 color in many foods and drinks in the usa)
On German TV channel ZDF which is under public-law and state regulated is a show called "Besseresser" (bettereater).
They show there how the food industry is doing tricks or which ingredients they use to get certain looks, texture, preserveablity and so on.
Thy have certtain cooks who will appear and sho things and one food engineer.
Yes, this is a proper subject of study in which you can get a diploma or master: food processing technology.
One concept of the show is that e gets food items like: Oreo and he has to reproduce it without any hints on the ingredients.
Or they show how he makes different convenience food in the studi kitchen / lab.
It is more of a food lab. He has lots of jars with additives there.
I think that they are sometimes more dramatic than necessary with ingredients but the show is a good one in general.
If the show had English subtitles I would recommend watching it but unfortunately it has not.
I like your videos. You are the American who respect whole world and not just USA and this, there is my respect for you from Europe. Keep making this videos.
Some years ago a big consortium in wine world headed by USA , Australia and New Zealand to use words from Port wine like Tawny and ruby what could mislead people lucky didn´t go trough.
If you want to try and you can get milk., you can make butter, cheese , yoghurt and cream.
Buy flour and make your own bread. It’s not difficult.,
Some spices you can grown yourself.
You can make your own bottled tomatoes.. and fruit. If you invest in a bottling kit or even if you don’t.
There are sooo many things that you can make in your own home .. and grow your own vegetables.
If it comes out of a factory it’s going to have been .. let’s say… useless nutritionally .
It’s not difficult., you just have to learn a few basics!
So, yes, a key thing here is: avoiding " processed foods " - as health experts keep telling us !
Eating fresh food is probably the safest and often the cheapest.
And definitely the healthiest
But then again: pesticides, insecticides and herbicides and GM food - means, how can we be sure - Organic Certified? Is that label fake as well ?
I always check ingredients of a product I buy the first time, after that it comes on the OK-list, or the once-a-month-list, or the never-list.
Here in Germany as part of the EU zone the rules are very strict for the European market. But there are countless ways to cheat legally with ingredients. You can clearly claim that the product has no additives like MSG but in the list of ingredients it is listed as yeast extract. And on top of that are the cases of illegal methods. Especially meat and sausages are heavily regulated. But you can produce a sausage from slaughterhouse waste that can be awarded and labeled as top quality product by the industry association. You send them a filled questionnaire form and a few samples and after a few weeks you got that award. Many methods for checking the samples are not common and are used only on suspicion of adulteration. A TV station broadcasted how they got a premium label for a sausage that is clearly illegal to sell in Germany.
Oliveoil is best from Morocco..its of greenish color and on the ground you see a black residue....most others are mixed up..with cheaper oils and they of lighter color..🤔
12:55 Idk what you've heard about canola oil but a good quality canola oil is not bad at all, it's just significantly cheaper... here, in the Czech Republic canola oil (alongside a sunflower oil) it's the most used oil (because we can grow it) and while olive oil is third most popular and used, it's not a close match. Not to mention extra virgin olive oil is not better at everything...
extra virgin olive oil is just the oil from the first press, they've been cutting it with virgin olive oil forever because it's olive oil you can't tell the difference unless you're an expert with extremely refined sense of taste or expensive equipment and original samples.
food poisoning is the worst there was an outbreak of it in sydney probably 20yrs ago from kraft peanut butter the same time i went down there to go to a pool comp stayed at my mates sisters house and ended getting food poisoning from a fish burger at bondi mcdonalds spewed up constantly for 16hrs the night i got home spent all night spewing up in the back yard or sitting on the toilet with a bucket. my abs were cramping so much i tore muscles. wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Aussie here. Im so thankful to be living here with our food food product standards. I dont think for one minute that we are immune to some food fraud or dodgy prctices but I think theyre minimal. Im very fussy about the products I buy. I live in a rural regional town. Not a big meat eater either but our local butcher has his own local farm is particular about food miles and the abbatoir he uses and wins awards . Not cheap but you know what youre getting. I get my eggs from backyard home raised chickens or from one of a few local farms where the chickens are paddock raised where they are outside all day then locked up safe in mobile trailers that get rotated through the paddocks so the land isnt overused. Expensive but I know where they come from. Our chain supermarket stocks the eggs and meat as well, has milk from big commercial dairy companies plus fairly local Australian dairies that sell directly to the supermarket (again more expensive but which I buy in preference-I want the farmer to get my money). They also sell fresh seasonal fruit and vegetables from local producers as well as from their chain supplier. Theres a big selection of commercially baked bread ranging from very cheap white sandwich bread to mid price not bad quality gourmet breads. The label cites normal bread ingredients (and probably preservatives) nothing more. We have the usual bottles cans jars packets boxes of products. But its easy to avoid anything suspect with labels saying blend mix no added sugar/preservatives/salt 80% content from "overseas country" etc Australian labelling can still be improved but if you look for the Australian Made logo it guarantees the products comes from local producers growers and manufacturers to wholesalers and retailers. So its not the cheapest nor the most expensive but you know its Australian and 100% what it claims to be. But theres a broad range of choices that will fit your budget as well. So Aussie canola oil will be from canola, nothing more; same with olive oil or you can buy overseas brands or you can buy a cheap blend vegetable oil. Theres a big city 40 minutes away where theres the same choice and the same quality of food products as I can get plus produce markets and farmers markets. So its not like we're just lucky where we live. Its normal. The point is you dont have to work too hard to get good quality meat and produce and our food standards mean we dont get many if any mystery added ingredients. Eating healthy or unhealthy food here is up to the individual not because we're being tricked.
We've never had a similar issue here in NZ, there was a scare some years ago about needs being found inside a carton of strawberries
the reason that cheese is allowed to have 4% filler is that you cannot guarantee you have not got some of the rind in with the cheese when you grate it and if it is sold un-grated the rind is naturally there. i am not trying to encourage adulteration in fact i think it is the worst crime in the world to day (at least murder is instant food crime damages millions every day) it is as simple as mixing sugar water into honey but as deadly as bulking baby formula with chemicals and plaster (it happened check it out).
One way to know (mostly anyway) what food you get is to buy from local producers and farms. Much better for the local economy, the environment (it cuts out on the long transports if you eat locally produced food) and probably for your health too.
Canola oil is actually way more healthy than sunflower oil.
2:43 "You need to get more money?" That is exactly what capitalism is about. Get out more money than you put in. Increase of money is the measure of wealth in capitalist economy not the necessity of goods. And that is the reason why more is never enough.
The most common is processed food to contain fillers and colours... this means also spices! I in between grow my own vegetables in my backyard.
The GREED of those companies..
About food, I can say one thing, if it has more than max 10 ingredients, it's not food and it's not healthy.
The fewer ingredients a food has, the healthier it is.
so.... this all boils down to one word: money. profit over health, profit over legality.
I couldn’t believe the price of groceries in the US last August (vs Australia). Oats cost 10x as much and I don’t know if they were 100% real.
imagine you're allergic to canola oil and you buy one those fraudulent olive oils :I
In germany we measure the quality as a customer by looking on the ingredient list. The more ingredients, the less healthy is the food.
There’s no corporation on earth that just wants your money. What they all want is MORE of your money.
More like ALL the money.
Doctors in Australia will tell you that when you have food poisoning, don’t eat meat or meat products or dairy products for several days. Stick to starches such as boiled potatoes, porridge made with water, rice and pasta, until your bowel movements are back t9 normal, then introduce the other foods one at a time.
I don't now about canola oil in the US. But we have a ton of canola fields here in Germany therefore a lot of canola oil. And actually it is very healthy, has a lot of saturated fats and it is not as expensive as olive oil. I use it a lot when cooking. It has not a lot of taste, good olive oil tastes great, though, so they both have their own purposes.
You mean "a lot of polyunsaturated fats"; very little saturated fat! You're right. Canola oil is one of the healthiest oils out there. In the US, people think is is bad because canola oil needs a lot of processing. But that is a myth. And you can even buy cold-pressed canola oil.
Yes, of course. It's unsaturated. The 'good' fats.
An experience in food fraud I have seen, was a number of years ago at a large central city market in Melbourne Australia. This is a very popular market for various goods, but my main purpose was to buy fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and fish/seafood. My time to visit this market was Saturdays and combined with other shopping in the Central business area. As a result my visit for fresh market goods/produce was often delayed later In the day, as the market closed mid afternoon for meat, seafood, vegetables and fruit. As a result some traders were also discounting/special deals to clear stock before closing for the day. Fruit at times for example a box of mandarines/oranges/cherries, etc for a few dollars rather than a dollar per kg.
The Seafod reduced as low as half earlier prices, though equally that late what you really wanted already sold out. That however is a product not normally well suited to return into cold storage, as spoiling too easily so high priority to sell out stock if at all possible, refreezing is not advisable on seafood.
The meat stalls also offer great discounts especially on large bulk hunks of beef, pork, lamb , goat. A lot of time you could get say a beef rump of 5 to 10kg for 2/3rd earlier price, though some with only 10% to 20% reduction.
Same on pork or lamb. Chickens half price, other items I bought were for my dog feeding like ox tongue or heart, liver and similar.
It was a surprise to see the cheating clearly on display as a meat stall was observed for that discounted sale time, pushing a large hollow needle into a big hunk of beef, while pumping water into the meat. Thereby pushing the total meat mass up. Thereby increasing the final price by having higher, significant higher, weight due to contained water. So with reduced price per kg, they merchant quite possibly still received same profit, or feasibly higher profit on the meat. Further what evidence is there that the meat sold was not so treated even at normal price times, and was just being topped up. Do we the customer notice the extra red leakage from that meat. Realistically are sold meat is hung for some time prior to sale at retail, there should be no blood dripping from any meat , no significant liquid from the hung meat anymore. How often have had meat that flows in juices when unpacked? Does it not suggest boosted weight by water loading the meat, that should be moist but not dripping.
Chickens that unpacked and up ended run significant juices out, along with excess internal junk that should not remain on a cleaned plucked item?
How about cut steaks, displayed in rich red form on a display tray, often falsely reddened by red light tubes added to the display cabinet lighting. But on purchase they pull and pack your purchase from a rear not so clearly visible tray at rear closer to the server. That when unpacked at home have a more brown colour than the rich red nice meat that you thought to be buying?
Bought packed fruits at a supermarket and on unpacking several internal to package items being severely bruised or even mouldy/rotting?
Boughtseveral identical items, even checking "best before date" of items on the shelf,and taking say half dozen, not looking each specific item, at home finding that two or three are actually weeks past due date? Here shops are required to not sell beyond due date or sell clearly marked down price with clear expiry highlighted. Though shops generally do not sell such just trash it. Rarely donate to charity food services. Some things like chocolate, lollies, cookies, canned/jars might be on special sale. Milk is discounted by the due date though I find that is good for many days past due date, with one exception a container some shopper dumped around the store so not kept cool all the time, but returned to chilled display. I had one a few months back that opened two days before expiry date was going off by taste. It was drained down the waste.
Honey is one that I find us often faked by added sugar. Pure honey by my experience remains quite liquid at normal indoor temperatures, not low like below freezing, but many honey containers after a a month or two are are solidifying and crystallising . Yes you can reliquify in warm water, but it is indicative of sugar loading by my experience. Last year I bought some special honey, "Leatherwood" honey, meaning harvested in an area with mainly 'Leartherwood' Eucaluptus tree blossoms, a Australian tree variety in southern and Tasmania areas, for bees to gather the nectar. It sells for a premium price due the excellent distinct flavour . However I temporary honey selling merchant stand at my local shopping centre, had it at good price, so I bought three small buckets about 1/2 litre each. Believed it genuine pure honey as many small private bee keeping people do so sometimes sell their annual product like that. Well not so good as less than a month later starting merely two weeks after purchase the honey was solidifying. I would suggest it was massively loaded by cane sugar, which is readily and cheaply available in Australia from huge cane harvests in Queensland.
It is sadly a "Buyer beware" situation, that mostly the consumer has no real chance to avoid much food fraud.
In Australia and New Zealand we have for years had severe problems with baby formula. NOT DUE TO BAD QUALITY QUITE THE OPPOSITE! China has had a series of scandals on baby formula, with various serious adulteration and contamination problems. Intentional mixing in Melanine powder, that actually caused several baby deaths and ultimate jailing and from memory even some executions of the business operators. Melanine of course is used to manufacture kitchen goods like plates, bowls and cups, a form of synthetic plastic to loosely describe it.
Our stores were being stripped of available baby formula produce, leaving store shelves empty and mothers unable to locally buy sufficient to feed their young children. The available deliveries from manufacturer to stores and store sales stock were being hoarded by people, mostly Chinese but anyone else too, buying all they could get repacking and shipping it to China to relatives and greedy traders for huge profits. The local baby formula very much in demand in China, by parents for their babies distrusting local Chinese products. Selling for up to 10 times the Australian, NZ retail value, there was huge profit. Stores and supermarkets took to restricting number of items a person could buy, say two per shopping trip and limiting shelf stock quantity put out more periodically only, to make waiting times for hoarders a difficulty. Well these hoarders were now arranging teams of people who one after another bought the limit, left to other nearby stores/supermarkets and/or returned to the same store repeatedly or later times of the same day thereby purchasing dozens to hundreds of containers per day. Whole shipments, semi-trailer loads were redirected to be packed to large containers to be trans shipped. Manufacturers were increasing production to capacity levels and still the shortages continued. Australia Postal operations were being over taxed by the number of parcels with baby formula being mailed to China. Nothing illegal so could not be stopped by any legal proceedings. Manufacturers started being careful about abnormal size orders from previous unknown and non shop/supermarket ordering systems, but again nothing to stop orders, just slow handling of clearly trans shipping based orders. One city shop was detected ordering several hundred times the past several years sale volumes, and observed moving delivered stock from one truck straight to another. They were put on limited delivery schedule but nothing could be done to refuse supply. Fortunately the critical times have eased, increased volume of manufacture direct export to China has made sufficient stock for local people secured needs.
Still observed by me, are 'Asians' pushing three or four supermarket trolleys full of several brands of baby formula to the checkout. So I assume there is still profiteering or direct family supply shipping to China today.
A case of good quality product highly in demand in a place with unsatisfactory, unsafe equivalent goods.
Food safety organisations are left without sufficient powers to really assure us the consumer safety from food fraudsters. Often the entire chain of supply deny guilt in detected cases, and getting to catch the crooks with sufficient evidence after detection is hard. All seem to point at others, all covering up their own practices really quickly.
We the consumer are left the suckers in this.
LOL saying your pissed means your drunk here in Australia, being pissed off means your angry. From your video I figured you were pissed off, I don’t blame you Ian I would be too. I never buy products from the US your food standards are not good. Here products are labeled from the country of origin and US standards suck!
Bad food = big medical bill
Another words - Business as usual
I just order olive oil from crete in a 5l canister online. Thats like 40€ for 1.25 gallons. Btw on swiss chese they have like sigils that show its original. I believe its AOP and IGP. If thats on the packaging you can basicly be sure its the real thing. If anyone would fake this one they get a huge lawsuit. I dont know if italy has this too. But if you want real parmegiano or pecorino cheese you have to pay. Even in germany it costs like twice than the cheaper alternative which is called grana padano here.
Buy single ingredient products from butchers, green grocers, farmers markets and local apiaries (for honey) where possible.
Cellulose is the stuff cells in ALL plants are made of, so if u grind down dried beans for example the flour will be mostly cellulose ... to call it non-food stuff is overexaggeration and causes people to think they r talking about adding grinded stone or plastics or crude oil into food --- this happens too in some places of the world sadly, so let's reserve the term "non-food' for real NON-food, shall we..
It’s not all about fraud, the FDA also approves hundreds if not thousands of additives to foods! Go and get your bread from the kitchen and read the ingredients list. I make my own bread and it has just five ingredients that are all foods: flour, water, yeast, milk and butter. I don’t add salt because I’m on a low sodium diet and the bread doesn’t need salt, it’s only to bring up the flavour, but fillings in my sandwich can do that. Store bought bread has twenty plus ingredients!
just FYI, oftentimes canola oil is actually healthier than olive oil