15 Foods That Are Banned in Europe but Not in the U.S.

[GreatGazoo]

16. You will read from some here 'if you don't want to eat pesticides and food dyes you

are "anti-science." (?) Meanwhile real scientists are linking our poor diet to ADHD, cancers, and the drop in IQs.

Artificial food dyes are banned in Europe partly because some, like #40 red, seem to be psychoactive (linked to ADHD) and partly because food coloring lies to the consumer. In the US sellers can dye fish red -- candy I can understand but the only reason to dye meats is to fool the consumer. The healthcare system in the US is in the business of cashing in on disease maintenance therefore preventing, avoiding or curing diseases is marginalized. Much of Europe is single payer so they save money and increase quality of life by banning foods known or strongly suspected of causing health and behavior problems.

Taxpayers subsidize the agricultural system in the US so we have already reduced the prices of corn, milk, soy and others. Taxpayers picked up $8 billion to keep US corn cheap last year. The emphasis in the US has been, until recently, quantity over quality but that is changing rapidly now:

http://fortune.com/2015/05/21/the-war-on-big-food/?src=longreads

Lastly, one can buy European groceries here at modest cost -- free of artificial dye, etc. ALDI and Trader Joe's use the same supply chains and standards here that they do in their home country (Germany). And recently WalMart got into the game by making a deal to sell Wild Oats Organic at or below the price of conventional US foods.