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proverbialwisdom

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12. I wonder how many countries were sourced for the ingredients listed.
Fri Jan 23, 2015, 01:09 AM
Jan 2015
http://www.cfr.org/health-science-and-technology/food-prices-global-instability/p24018

Food Prices and Global Instability
Interviewee: Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, CFR
Interviewer: Toni Johnson, Senior Staff Writer
February 4, 2011


...What we're seeing is that the entire food supply of the world is now globalized, and there is no country on Earth that is entirely self-supporting. Everybody is importing and exporting. It is so fluid and so complicated, that at any given moment it is very difficult to say what countries were involved in every chain of what you consume.

A study done on a hamburger sold by a fast food chain in the United States that the ingredients came from fifty-four countries.

When you imagine processed food elements from ten or twelve countries, it how difficult it is, in this new globalizing world of food production, to guarantee the safety of anything. The challenge is now well beyond what any given country's regulatory agencies can handle. We really need to be thinking about entirely new kinds of global regimens and standards of safety for food, regardless of whether the consumer is in Nigeria, Argentina, or Los Angeles...

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I made french fries for dinner, hollysmom Jan 2015 #1
Best food on Earth!! lobodons Jan 2015 #2
Loaded with GMO's!!!!!! YUCK! TheNutcracker Jan 2015 #3
I believe they're supposed Nyc72dem Jan 2015 #4
Nice.....and welcome to DU Nyc72dem Lochloosa Jan 2015 #13
IF you order fries at In And Out restaurants Plucketeer Jan 2015 #5
Do you know, what's in the oil that they are dropped into? thesquanderer Jan 2015 #15
No. I don't know Plucketeer Jan 2015 #18
In N Out fries= pure vegetable oil, salt, spuds, 5 Guys fries = peanut oil, salt, spuds. Bluenorthwest Jan 2015 #23
My question? Why are some of the ingredients listed twice? Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jan 2015 #6
Because there are two frying steps. Thor_MN Jan 2015 #11
Weird that they put milk and beef in their fries and foaming agents. mucifer Jan 2015 #7
All of those ingredients are unnecessary except the potatoes oil and salt and pepper. zeemike Jan 2015 #8
Related. proverbialwisdom Jan 2015 #9
That' a great link, thanks! thesquanderer Jan 2015 #16
Ok, read NRDC Switchboard: "Thyroid and kids' brains: Using modern tools to screen food chemicals" proverbialwisdom Jan 2015 #19
even the "wholesome" potatoes are high glycemic starch carbohydrate zebonaut Jan 2015 #10
I wonder how many countries were sourced for the ingredients listed. proverbialwisdom Jan 2015 #12
Shocking! jaxind Jan 2015 #14
How many "Ingredients" would there be, in the McPoutine? Johnny Rash Jan 2015 #17
Check it out. proverbialwisdom Jan 2015 #20
Is this FDA study only about the FAST FOOD restaurant establishment? Johnny Rash Jan 2015 #22
I make french fries about as healthy as can be at home sdfernando Jan 2015 #21
That dude got fired from Myth Buster for using his persona to do these un-Gotcha vids for Mickey D GreatGazoo Jan 2015 #24
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