When nobody reads the Mueller Report, ... who cares about Azodicarbonamide!

Alexandra Petri, who writes an awesomely funny column at WaPo, has one right after the Mueller presser.  She writes as if she is Mueller talking:

My fellow Americans, it is not Mueller Time. It will never be Mueller Time. I wish you would remove my likeness from your T-shirts and steins. I, Robert Mueller, will not be fired. I quit.
First off, it is obvious that none of you has actually read the report, or you would all sound like Justin Amash. Pete Buttigieg read “Ulysses,” but you will notice how quiet he is on the subject of my report findings.
I guess I should not be surprised that people hate to read so much that they will let folks just go around willy-nilly obstructing justice. Donald Trump’s rise is general proof that people hate to read. I kind of thought that maybe one or two people would want to see if the Wikipedia plot summary matched the book, but no.

And all that is just the beginning!  Hilarious. Laugh is all we can do in these stressful times.

If we don't read books, newspapers, and all that big items, what are the odds that we will read the list of ingredients in the food stuff that we buy?  Like in the bread.  Until today, I had no idea that there is something called Azodicarbonamide.  I have often joked with students that if they see an ingredient that they cannot even spell, they should not even think about buying it leave alone eating it!

In The Guardian's series on toxic items in our lives is where I came across Azodicarbonamide, and more.  It is more about caveat emptor.  (Read that too, in case you missed it or need a refresher.)  This latest is about food. About bread:

Azodicarbonamide has been banned for consumption by the European Union for over a decade.
But despite petitions from several advocacy groups – some dating back decades – the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) still considers these to be Gras or “generally recognized as safe” to eat, though plenty of experts disagree.

Insane!

For years now, I have been buying bread that is locally baked, often at prices that are way higher than the national or regional brands.  Apparently that might be a good strategy.  But, maybe I should check their label too?

But, don't we have the federal government to take care of all these?

“The system for ensuring that ingredients added to food are safe is broken,” said Lisa Lefferts, senior scientist at the consumer advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest. Lefferts, who specializes in food additives, said that once a substance was in the food supply, the FDA rarely took further action, even when there was evidence that it isn’t safe.

Seriously? WTF are the taxes for then?

“In EWG’s view, it is important for companies to start removing chemicals associated with health risks, so that shoppers don’t have to have a chemistry degree in order to decipher food labels,” said Naidenko.

I agree.

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