Just thank the EU. God doesn’t seem to do much for his own country….

@@thomasalbrecht5914 And what is the own country of the fairy tale God?

@@tisketisja5528 probably some nation that's delulu enough to think they are god's chosen nation. Meanwhile god sitting above, eating popcorn, watching people kill each other in his name. xD

Most countries in the EU already had very high food standards before the EU 'standardized' them.

@@BrookspiritYes. You see that is the best part of the EU 🎉EU unifies things and then implements them well. So EU goes through the laws meticulously then works out legislation and then sees that everything is implemented correctly in EVERY member state. So you know that you are safe no matter where in the EU27 you are 🎉

Taste are often locally to a product, try a Colgate toothpaste in another country, I will guarantee you think that it's bad, because it will not taste the way you are use too.

@@Joliie McDonalds fries/chips have 14 ingredients in the US and 4 in EU.

Food regulations differ in countries, and compliance is a very complex thing, so a lot of things will differ not just food.

@@LimerickWarrior1 that in itself is crazy, it's fries, it needs potato, oil and salt (Maybe pepper) that is it :D

@@Joliie If you use an airfryer, you can do without the oil even ;)

Its generally called glucose-fructose by european producers.

@@Finderskeepers. Yes, but fortunately in most of the world it is produced from corn that is not genetically modified like USA corn and maize.

To be fair stress may be a big factor in that.

@@perer005 I’ve heard similar things from US military personnel posted to Europe. They do have all the US stuff imported for the shops in camp, but any food prepared the chefs will be locally supplied. Plus whenever they leave camp obviously everything conforms to that countries laws.

@@perer005bullshit

Yes, it is always a can/perhaps/maybe/might do, but never a will do. The only thing they can say legally is e.g. a juice that contains a lot of vitamins to tell, that a glass of a certain amount will fulfill a part of the daily need on certain vitamins. Say, a glass of this orange juice will give you 20 % of the daily vitamin C needs.

@@Kivas_Fajo there is not just one uniform size of glass as well so they need to be carefull here as well, which is why you are more likely to hear "can/may contain up to % of daily need"

@@theldraspneumonoultramicro405 I've noticed they often now state ''a 250ml glass ..........'' to ensure you know the amounts = I suspect it also helps with NOT drinking too much of something as well because too much can be as bad as too little (too much of some items can lead to unwanted side effects leading to much time spent sitting in the ''little room''.

Same as guns! But Americans think that guns are "freedom".Still fighting the Indians and those overbearing English! Constitution is out of date!

hey, you have a trade deal with the UK to send your, banned from the EU, meat to the UK!

NZ back doors Australia like a boss shit from China goes through NZ then packed as a NZ product then sold here in Australia I stopped buying anything that says product of newzealand

​@@Thepigfromthepot Same here, we will not buy NZ products, except for Anathoth now Barkers Jam. I phoned them to ask where they sourced their ingredients from. (it was not China)

But how will you then get the sweet, savory taste of gutter oil? 🤔

@@TheRealJellyBomb 😂😂

i am have been to NZ, too... they ask my when i will move there.... me, never....i dont like to be not living in the EU....

We are the royalty of the world.

I spent half of my childhood in the states and have a really strong bond towards that country, but still there are countless reasons that make me feel lucky ending up in europe.

Fortunately, the trade agreement between the USA and the EU did not come about 4-5 years ago. Merkel had the idea and really wanted to negotiate and launch it with Obama. Then Trump came and canceled everything Obama had done. Merkel is now gone and fortunately the EU food laws remained, otherwise we would have all this chemical stuff from the USA in our supermarkets.

​@@8tonystark8sorry but no you're not, nowhere near lmao, more like the laughing stock of the world...

@@8tonystark8 "You" guys are a fucking joke, that's all.

The difference is in the US it's money over health, Everywhere else health over money.

And u live in ??

@@rogernss614 Denmark

@@CdrmnkNathan ahhaha... bureaucracy and political power, ultimately also money, dont be naive

We in the EU been spooked with various 'horror stories' about stuff we thought was safe and then turned out to be super harmful... like lead and asbestos before the attention turned to what exactly are we doing to the stuff we put in our faces.

You can find American food brands here in Europe. However, they come from local factories which produce their items IAW European food standards, and largley use local raw products. This is why look-alikes on both sides of the Atlantic don't quite taste the same, e.g. European Coke or Pepsi are not as sweet. But, indeed, food directly imported from the US?! I can only think of Bourbon - if that's considered food.

wow, your standards are very low compared to the EU... its one of many reasons you cant sell your meat here...

The chemicals, food additives and 'big pharma' industries spend massive amounts of money on lobbying to US political parties - I wonder why??? 🤔

I worked in pharmaceutical R&D, and know a few things about hygiene on pharmaceutical levels. dairy production in the EU is not far behind. they just don't go crazy with 80°C 4M NaOH.

What make you think food prep regs are lower in Europe ? Because of different metrics its not possible to directly measure so I respect your opinion but It strikes me that on many issues $'s come before people in the US be it food, health, social services and supports together with more financially focused political lobbying by producer organisations and less attention given to consumer rights or protections.

The big difference is that here in Europe regulators ban chemicals and the like until it is proven that it is safe for human consumption. In the USA it's the opposite - they allow everything until people have been harmed or died. And even then they oftentimes don't ban the chemicals but only set a certain maximum which means the chemicals can still be used, only in lower quantities. The USA take the "innocent until proven guilty" a little bit too far in food production in my opinion. Personally I prefer to not play russian roulette with the health and the lives of the citizens.

Yes, such as the 2 cutting boards one for vegetable, one for meat. Or cutting the vegetable first, and the meat after, and deepcleaning of the cutting board. Americans are really paranoid about that, seem to fear Salmonella as a daily bases. That is not really a thing here. I watch cooking show (French here), and no one seems to pay attention to that, even professional chef

I think the rules on preparation are tight in eu, but I don't know those U.S.. In Italy, it is called HCCP, and it is the same restaurant that has to design a protocol that respects the rules. Then all employees have to take refresher courses. If we leave out some areas in big cities or in the south, in Italy it is a very serious thing. We have a specialized police department (the N.A.S. nucleus of the carabinieri) dedicated only to this, beyond the control of the rules on drugs and hospitals, and counterfeiting. I have worked in the restaurant and I have seen 3 or 4 times the NAS enter the restaurant and check the daily register of the temperatures of the fridges, the correct separation of the various products, the cleaning and bacterial charge on the counters and slicers, and the regularity of the containers of the ingredients. 3 times at least they made a fine of 500 to 2000 euros ... for triffles. salerno.occhionotizie.it/salerno-locali-chiusi-nas-estate-2023/ @@irina-ty1336

Or sadly, just don't care.

@@101steel4 Sad fact. The chemicals in your foods/drinks (like Yellow Nr. 5) are partially to blame for this reaction in people.

Well said (not meaning im mr healthy myself)

and they will stay unaware....because they like to be lied to... aka Trumpitis!

If that's not a clear indication that they should consider moving, nothing is. Have seen a few KZfaq content creators actually move to Europe, with others dreaming of moving abroad. Although I've seen some content creators that has moved to the US, without any mentioned issues other than the immigration rules.

A couple of US youtubers I follow who live in Europe mentioned that whenever the visited family in the States that they got really sick from the food there, at least until their body had adjusted after a couple of days. When I was in the US in 2000 I had no problem with the food, but we mainly ate in restaurants in NY.

@@kholdanstaalstorm6881 because of the small amounts of additives, it may take many years for the accumulation to have a noticeable effect, unlike people that have been exposed since childhood. Just a thought, I'm no scientist.

@@DomingoDeSantaClara Yes, the difference between a healthy substance and a poison is the dosage, even water can be lethal in large amounts or in surprisingly small amounts in it's purest form (just H²O without any mineral salts). Then you have the very little researched cumulative effects that several different compounds have together, where some compounds heighten the effects of each other way beyond their individual effects, or their impact reducing the effectiveness of modern medicine. But this is a research gray area because noone other than countries health services would research the effects of mixing compounds unless to check for a suspected serious health risk. Businesses would only tangentially touch these topics because it's of little to no benefit for the company.

@@kholdanstaalstorm6881 Hmmmmm ... Moving to Europe, why not, but wouldn't it be better to fight for their rights at home? Didn't we do that in Europe?

As always, the devil is on the details. If all you said is that it makes you fat and sick, you are 100% correct, period. If you say the chemicals are in the food to control your behaviour and that you oppose water treatment and/or vaccination because is "not natural" or "all chemicals are evil", you are bat**it crazy. There is nuance in everything, and the details here are really important :p

Water is a chemical.

@@AnnaAnna-uc2ff Precisely it is a pure compound, but it is never pure and contains minerals from the rocks it flows around...

@@AnnaAnna-uc2ff artificial harmful chemicals, smart arse 😆

Really! Seriously? If water is a chemical? That means countries like New Zealand and Australia drinking water is not good for humanity. You stupid people!

All that stuff has been proven harmful already and they keep selling it so it might not be about freedom after all

I just had a mental image of kids with backpacks, on the back of kangaroos with boxing gloves on, smacking their lips and saying, "Go on, mate!" Thanks for that 😊

Did you know that "Bayer" bought "Monsanto"?

@@markschattefor6997 so? whats your point? Glyhosphate is pretty "okay" campared to many other substances.

​@@markschattefor6997 yeah, when I heard back then that Bayer fell for the old trick of having a company foisted off on them "juuuust" before the big law suites roll in, I couldn't help but shake my head. Bayer believed to have made a huge deal when they bought Monsanto. Only to find a few months later that not only was Glyphosate suddenly on the very stringent watchlist of pesticides that the EU wants to ban but also that Glyphosate was suddenly the target of a multi-BILLION dollar law suite. I bet the shareholders who were able to jump ship when the stocks were still high were chuckling with glee that those dumb Germans bought not only a leaking ship, but that the ship was already flooded to the brim and kept afloat with artificial means.

@@naftyloescher Glyphosate is just a very tiny aspect of the whole problem/danger. It is the power they have over very important aspects of our daily lives, from seeds to fertilizer to pesticides to medicine.

@@markschattefor6997 oh for sure I agree with that part. Watched many documentaries about that topic in the last years...

Apfelschorle is nice. Here in the UK we do have a branded drink called Appletiser, but that's fizzy apple juice, no added water. Still nice, though. I tried Almdudler last year in Austria, that was quite refreshing. I like Germany and central Europe in general, all of my trips abroad seem to end up being either Germany, Austria, Czech Republic or Poland 😆

In Norway I can find Argentinian, Japanese, Brazilian and a lot of African countries' beef in our highly Norwegian focused beef isles, but I cannot remember ever finding any US beef, even in specialty stores. Haven't found any other US produced meats or fish for that matter, even though we have several ready-made products in "American style" or similar tag lines on the packaging. Can find specialty stores with US brand candies, but after further inspection they're made outside the US. It can't be easier to get stuff from South America, Asia or Africa than from the US, I've seen a few Canadian specialties like maple syrup sold here, made in Canada.

US Chicken? Banned almost worlwide!

@@kholdanstaalstorm6881 It's illegal to import any type of American meat here to Norway, at least by private citizens. Those restrictions seems to apply to companies as well. Not that it matters. Most American food is shit anyway, as it tastes like licking a chemistry lab floor.

Yeah, here in the EU, we don't import American beef. I mean, apart from the occasional 13+ million metric tons each year...

@@kholdanstaalstorm6881 i found a lot US food here.... by checking, its all produced in the EU!

i have been to the USA over 10 times, i must shorten my life by a few years now!

Right on point, raw meats and rare cooked meats in europe are pretty safe. I work in a food lab and finding pathogens on meat is quite rare.

Americans have a problem with the fact that people in France speaking French! i got ask why the Germans call Munich ( München ) different to the English name? did you know, at Charles DeGaule airport in Paris, Americans become Europeans the moment a airplane from India lands and all the Indians are in the None EU queue.... this is only possible for white Americans....i witnessed it myself!

they something close in the UK already.. it says " not for sale in the EU "

its great that the English pump their sewage into every piece of water they have.... its their plan to get rid of water treatment, its to expensive and not in any need! they love to swim in their own shit! thats the reason they left the EU... because the EU isnt allowing it!

True but maybe you should also have mentioned, since I could imagine some would search for cleaner foods after watching the above, that both our pig and cattle are exported to some of the most critically regulated and monitored nations in the world when it comes to imported meat. Denmark´s food producing regulations are even harder than EU´s regulative s for that very reason. I do not think USA import a lot of our meat because they are so price/quantity focused and not quality focused but never the less any US consumer reading this, should know that Danish pork and beef are highest standard. Just for the record that includes no genetically modified food, no growth hormone, no standard antibiotic penicillin (as US producers do as standard on all pork/cattle..."funny" how USA have a fast growing problem with antibiotics resistance in humans now....! .) and if it are labelled organic meat from Denmark it have only eaten organic food throughout it´s entire life! I have heard some nations dye the meat before packaging and that are completely banned here. While we are at it. Royal Greenland´s products, from small prawns to large cods are caught in the cold waters between Denmark and Greenland far away from polluting industries!

And Denmark being a EU member, the pigs are also in much better condition.

Peanut butter doesn't contain butter.

Okay- hey, I'm not an expert. I just know what I taste. Whatever, the peanut butter is yummy. @@TheRealJellyBomb

@@ronasaurus74 I agree 👍 🤗 I have a stash in my basement 😂 It's pretty good in burgers, too 😋

@@ronasaurus74 mate, grab a blender, grab some roasted unsalted peanuts, or roast some raw peanuts......then blend the peanuts. Voila, peanut butter. You will need to add salt, trust me on that one. You will also probably want to add some peanut oil if you want it to actually be spreadable. If you want more flavour, roast the peanuts until they are almost dark brown but be careful not to burn them, that can happen really easily. You want the nuts to be the colour of strong but milky coffee.

i have to ask, why would you eat something like this...its taste terrible!

Glad to be french ;)

Glad to be a Aussie 😊

Quite. But how were those cereals grown? With what fertilizers, pesticides, etc.?

@@micade2518 Well, I’m afraid that’s for Ian to research, since I (thankfully) don’t live in the US.

@@Jeni10 My answer was just "food for thought" ... ;o)

that 'Aspartame' listed under sweeteners is a synthetic sugar substitute/artificial sweetener

@@neilf1059 Yeah, bloody sugar tax... 🤢

wait for it, the Tories will sell your health to the US soon enough! and also the NHS!

In Australia we do import Canadian pork now and then.

@@marieravening927 we also import fresh fruit and vegetables, plus other things that we shouldn't (like raw seafood products - some of these cause massive damage to our seafood industries). But these kinds of imports are allowed due to the free trade agreements.

​@@marieravening927 Most of the bacon and ham in Australia is imported. The supermarkets are killing off our local producers. You have to look really hard to find Australian bacon and ham.

@@marieravening927 mostly at Christmastime, and they have to go through a serious regulatory check

i was referring foods that are not declared through customs the Chinese are the worst

I played cricket for many years, I always kept a small pouch of salt in my pocket to take if I was cramping up, drank heaps of water and ate oranges and bananas during breaks. Natures sports drinks.

Thats wierd, i never saw a Gatorade ad in my life ( Portugal ), the only " athtlete " drink i ever saw in ads was " Isostar " and even that one i havnt seen in years now.

Me too. Beer is not by chance around us, since we found grains...

The more I find out about America the more I dislike it

@@Mark-wv6sg They are very good at PR and marketing.

And building 16 lane roads, dont forget about that. ​@@blechtic

American 'beer' is considered soft drink in Germany.

The difference is that in the EU, chemical companies producing chemicals for agriculture must prove that their product is very little harmful to humans. In the USA it is the opposite, because it is people, consumers, who have to prove to officials and corporations that they are poisonous . And in the end, as always, it's about how health care works in the EU and the USA . In the EU, it is state-owned, so governments make sure that people do not get sick because it costs the budget. In the USA, health care is a huge business, so regularly poisoning people is beneficial to everyone. Health care companies are getting richer, so taxes go to the federal budget. Such a paradox

@@smiechuwarte-qt8pn Not everyone...the poisoned ones got the a** card.

@@Kivas_Fajo Organic food in supermarkets in the EU is also only in name because there is a long list of chemicals approved for its production. These chemicals are not as poisonous as in the USA, but they certainly have some side effects

@@smiechuwarte-qt8pn Not true. Do better research. We have bio and we have organic. Bio may have pesticides and such, but in far smaller numbers, than on regular produce. Organic may not have anything chemical used to grow them.

American chemicals, food additives and pharmaceuticals industries spend massive amounts of $$$'s on 'lobbying' US political parties - I wonder why??? 🤔

Near the end of their lives the majority spend time in feedlots on grain before slaughter and even that is heavily regulated from what I've seen, read and heard.

@@helenlecornu1651 not in australia, if the label says grass fed it means their whole life in the paddock

@@lillibitjohnson7293 I stand corrected - I was thinking more of the cattle which is grass fed the majority then put into feedlots (not the american style) before slaughter (which is classed as grain fed and not grass fed :D). I have both sale yards and an abattoir in my area.

@@helenlecornu1651 yeah, we use the same words as USA in the standards but they just mean totally different things lol thanks god we weren’t brought up eating that pink slime in our meat. The worst the butchers used to do is sprinkle something on the meat to keep it red lol

USA is heaven for corporation's profits at all costs.

Do you know what they used to do instead of using this "very important" herbicide? They used to let fields lie fallow, every third season or so. They would let animals graze on what grew naturally and then they would till everything into the ground to feed it. Amazing system. It fed the world for centuries before your "very important" herbicide was invented.

also ukrainian grains, it was imported as technical one, but used to feeding animals ect., also after checking it result were it can contain loads of unhealthy stuff, like heavy metals, salmonella, pesticides ect. when goverment didnt agree for more import of it, then now ukraine pretends to be a victim and wants to be tried on court... everything soon after getting loads of help

I'm also Australian and I agree with you entirely. It needs to said more often by Americans.

Australia and New Zealand actually have the same food standards authority FSANZ [Food Standards Australia New Zealand] - I guess its a bit of the ANZAC mindset

It's why our Froot Loops are more natural, less vibrant colours. The US ones scare me.

Yep. Same with a longe range of products just proving they easily CAN make these products without adding known dangerous stuff. They can just earn more if Americans eat corn syrup, genemodified/growth hormone and penicillin -filled meat and candy that would be considered poisonous in Asia or Europe. You should read about how Coca Cola through sinister illegal means got aspartam approved back in the days despite it gave a lot of mice brain cancer. I stay completely away from products that are "sugar free" but artificially sweetened.

US are great at making lots of food stuff. But if I was bringing up kids in the US I'd be going for "Organic" much more strictly than I do here in Europe. Here I do so to vote against factory foods with my wallet, in the US I'd be more concerned about what's allowed in the food factory. 😐

I have a specific Danish brand of orange soda that i prefer, because it actually tastes like orange juice with sparkles. Fanta doesn't stand a chance... taste is too artificial.

Seemingly in Norway Coca-Cola has missed with the recipe, because here's PepsiCo the biggest with Pepsi Max as the market leader with 1 in 3 litre soda sold were Pepsi Max in 2021. Same year 89% of soda sold were sugar free. But I can confirm that the versions of global soda brands sold in Germany, Spain and Japan taste differently than their brand counterparts in Norway, and I've heard that they taste differently than their US counterparts too, but I haven't tried them myself.

on the other hand, they are more predictable than natural crossbreeds most of time, which ppls are doing for ages

depends what the result you want to create with modifying. You would think it is logical to modify the crop so it is more resistant to pest and diseases, so you have to spray it less. But i would not be surprised if they modify it to increase yield and ignore the resistance of the crop.

That is only partially true. Some GMOs have been modified to be more resistant to certain pesticides and fungicides so that farmers can be certain of better profits from one harvest. Such as certain seeds from Monsanto that are more resistant to Glyphosate, which incidentally is ALSO a Monsanto product. Making farmers more reliant on one company. But the audacity of Monsanto didn't end there. Certain crops were laced with a certain DNA strand that occurred only in Monsanto seeds OR the crossbreeds that were pollinated from them. But a farmer that tried to sell their harvest when they had not legally bought a Monsanto licensed seed could be sued by Monsanto to retroactively pay these license fees IF this DNA strand was found in their harvest. Monsanto was THE ultimate villain among the big farming and pesticides companies. Their practices easily crossed the line from grey to deep black business practices multiple times. And then my country's dumb company Bayer went and bought Monsanto. Incredibly stupid, as their stocks dropped by over 40% in one year after the criminal procedures of Monsanto were dragged into light by multiple law suits in the USA.

​@@RustyDust101GMOs modified to be more resistant to pesticides and fungicides?? I think you've got your wires well and truly crossed there, brother...