The free market should be free to choose how much heavy metals are in it.
Baby Formula! Now with 12% less Lead than the leading brand!
What about that one with 50% more lead, but you don’t mind trading a couple of your baby’s IQ points for those sweet savings?
Hmm that’s a tough trade-off. More developmental disabilities, but is the Value™ really there to justify the decreased cost?
If children wanted higher quality food they would go out and make their own money.
Mine are broke so they’ll eat what I feed them.
Tbh kids these days need to learn a thing or two about heavy metal
limit
Thanks so much.
TIL in the US they need an extra law to limit harmful substances in (baby) food. Normal people would call this “common sense”, but it seems to be rather uncommon in the US.
The FDA was supposed to just be regulating this as their job already. I’m not sure why they need a specific law, but I’m just going to assume the answer is Reagan.
If the FDA, FTC, USDA, EPA, Depts of Transportation, and CDC wanted to guarantee and check their work, we’d have universal healthcare. And in fact I think that’s exactly the legal argument for why the government should be FORCED to provide us healthcare - how else would we be able to catch (and class action sue for) large community-wide health hazards such as:
-asbestos in baby powder
-lead and heavy metals in vitamins and supplements
-consistency of dosing in medications
-Deaths from auto accidents when we should be having trains
-Deaths from contaminated eggs, meat, milk from bird flu or other pathogens
-Products that are blatant lies/false
-Companies leaking chemicals into water supplies
-Lead in water supply
-Heavy metals in water supply& in crops, from exhaust from cars and bits of tires
-imminent looming climate change
Gee, I wonder why corporations are scared of us getting healthcare?
This is ridiculous! Now how are babies supposed to get their recommended daily value of lead and cadmium?
I will not let them take my babies daily intake of arsenic and mercury away!
Without led in their system, how are we going to develop the next generation of psychopaths and right wing voters?
When CEOs of these companies go to prison it will stop.
Prison doesn’t stop them. They’ll just sacrifice a scape goat and apply a new guy.
Have we tried sending them to prison though?
I am genuinely surprised that this isn’t already in place for all foods. We’ve known about the harm they cause for a very long time.
Well, there is a simple reason for that
It’s called money
Was it introduced by Biden? If so, it’s dead on arrival as conservatives will do anything to prevent him from getting a win.
Klobuchar, Krishnamoorthi, Duckworth, and Cárdenas. All Democratic senators.
It was originally put forth by Krishnamoorthi late last year.
Limit implies they will still have some allowable amount which is insane!
Nestle:
I feed our baby junks of lead to go straight to the source. It’s working well.
Great. What are we going to do with them now?
opens jar of Gerber
Led Zeppelin starts playing from the jar
