News Whats in your burger?

[garyw]

I don't think that's a great example. Especially if you just want the top half.
All that stuff is common in most anything!

Sure but ask a regular shopper 'what is Disodium Phosphate' and they wouldn't have a clue.

It is therefore used commercially as an anti-caking additive in powdered products

Umm right, so just what does it do? Well, if you mix it with other stuff you get this:

Monobasic and dibasic sodium phosphate is used as a saline laxative to treat constipation or to clean the bowel before a colonoscopy.

Nice....

 

[Notebook]

I'd buy it!

N.

 

[FADEC]

A German manufacturer of wooden boxes has started a product recall: they found up to 4% wood from rockinghorses in it!

 

[Urwumpe]

Now IKEA stopped selling their popular köttbullar dish in their stores in Europe, after horse meat had been found there.

Good news: The fish sticks are still free of seahorses.

 

[Urwumpe]

Waiter: Do you want something on your burger?
Customer: Yes, 10 pounds for it to win the next race in Ascot.


(Source and kudos: http://www.spiegel.de/karriere/beru...r-und-der-pferdefleisch-skandal-a-886155.html )

 

[SolarLiner]

Horses are attacking us ... Horses are everywhere ... Horses are Ninja, they can hide under cows!

 

[FADEC]

We now have the next scandal: contaminated animal food (aflatoxin). Thousands of German farms are affected.

Good that I'm not affected anymore by things like that for 3 years now.

Good news: The fish sticks are still free of seahorses.

But full of heavy metals instead