• ieatpwns@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Nah it’s a fire retardant so you’ll be fine if anything you can use your soda to put out fires

  • NABDad@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Ok, without reading the article, let me see if I can guess what it says.

    The population of the US exists to serve the needs of the 1% and no threat to the population matters unless the damage impacts their profits.

    Am I close?

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      5 months ago

      Worse: basically the rest of the world already banned it and a lot of other toxic stuff that is in our food.

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        5 months ago

        I think my guess includes that by default. Unless the toxic stuff in our food is costing the 1% money, in which case it would be odd that they permit it.

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        And the US food companies have known this was coming for a loooong time. The biggest names already changed ahead of time.

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            5 months ago

            not really. generics did. mountain dew is the most well known because its the only citrus soda with such a high profile. It basically was a big thing for stabilizing citrus based ones.

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    5 months ago

    Um so when I grab a mountain dew at the store I am consuming a flame retardants? So does that mean I can douse myself in soda and run into a burning building?

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        5 months ago

        It’s also an industrial solvent!

        Not to minimize the fact that BVO is known to be toxic and should have been banned years ago, but yes I hate when they make stupid comparisons like that

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      5 months ago

      Mountain Dew stopped including BVO in 2019. So you’ve been in the clear for at least 4 years.

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      5 months ago

      Bromine is used in flame retardants AND in brominated vegetable oil. Like chlorine is used to clean your pool water and as a component of table salt.