Food dyes are completely unnecessary and there’s evidence of link to health related issues. So why not ban them until they can be proven safe and necessary?
Weird flex. Am i the only one that sees the banning of safe, legal substances, the silencing of political dissent, the controlling of the media, and thinking, ”this isnt what Republicans are supposed to believe in, is it?”
US companies are the worst. They sell the same products without that shit in other countries. People still buy it and it doesn’t taste different most of the time.
Good news, should’ve been done a while ago but even just recently when California tried doing this people on Fox News were calling it the war on skittles or some shit.
They will use the stuff Europe uses as they have already banned them. Alternatives exist and the big companies will raise prices and put a petroleum free coloring label on it:)
Who cares unless it’s not based on science? RFK Jr. isn’t very bright, so I can see a lot of head aches for food companies if this is just his imagination run amuk.
A broken analogue clock is right twice a day. Ban away. There’s no need for them. A lot of healthier options dye food with various fruits and vegetables if they feel they must change the color.
The big problem with Doritos is the complete lack of nutritional value. The artificial colors are probably like #10 on the list of bad things about them.
I’m all for banning ALL food dyes. If it’s not adding something nutritionally meaningful, it’s just advertising. I look forward to drinking lots of clear colas.
General Mills tried switching the dyes used in Trix cereal to naturally occurring colors like beet juice and blueberry juice. Consumers preferred the garish synthetic dyes and artificial flavors to the natural colors and flavors. They still make both versions though.
I agree with everyone it should have been done. But I am suspicious of why this consumer friendly idea is being put out when everything else seems designed to take money or rights away
An important key piece of context is missing from this discussion everywhere I see it. These are petroleum-based synthetic dyes. Petroleum. Oil. The stuff we turn into gasoline. It is getting both more expensive and less relevant to humanity’s continued existence every day. There’s a natural threshold where these dyes would be cost-prohibitive to use anyway and we were already mostly over that threshold well before we even consider the Trump Tax tariffs.
The fact that the government took action is almost irrelevant because government action is so far behind public sentiment, let alone corporate sentiment. There have been cheaper alternatives for many years that have already been widely adopted. The regulators just saw the last dying gasp of a harmful product they didn’t give a shit about and decided to kill-steal it so they could claim an easy win.
No one’s gonna be fighting this. No company is going to say “Hey, petroleum–OPEC oil–is actually a cheap food additive.” in the current market let alone the market that’s on the economic horizon. Especially not the market that foresees America cutting itself out from global trade and losing the status as the world’s reserve currency.
It’s a nothing burger that doesn’t warrant all the news coverage.
trump is using the trade war to attempt to dump hormone-infused, antibiotic-fed, chlorine-washed chicken into the EU market, something that no one has asked for and is a non-starter in the EU. Perhaps this move can provide a gateway to ending the standoff by subsequently adopting all EU food safety regulations in the US, and thus harmonizing trade.
I despise everything about that man, and all he’s trying to do, with the exception of this. There is no justification to keep something known to be harmful in foods. That said, the things he doesn’t have a personal opposition to he will allow. He’s a menace.
Remember when Dems tried to ban big gulp size soft drinks and the GOP showed up with big gulps in hand, slamming all those chemicals and artificial dyes saying it was American. Now Trump has stripped the Clean Water Act and relaxed regulations on what companies can dump in the environment. More chemicals for us all. They don’t give a shit about our health and never did.
It’s stupid. There’s so many other things more dangerous to people than dyes. As long as it’s disclosed on the packaging so consumers can know and choose accordingly, there’s no reason to ban it. There’s much more serious concerns they could focus on. This is a diversion from everything else and a good public relations story.
Food dyes have no nutritional value and are not healthy to consume. Fact is a lot of food dies that are commonly used in the US are not legal in the EU because they have negative impacts on health. They are used to make food look fresh Or in the case of children to make food seem exciting. Food tastes good, it doesn’t need to look pretty.
Good. We don’t need coal tar derivatives in our food. There are plenty of options. These are already banned in some European countries and they use natural food dyes instead.
I’ll believe it when they actually do the ban. So far there has been a lot of attacks on vaccines (which are the cheapest way to deal with infectious disease). What there hasn’t been is attacks on big money interests.
I’ll be interested to see if kids have more self control in school. The last 10 minutes of lunch these kids go nuts. I’ve heard people say their kids get crazy when they eat food with coloring in it
ban every poison in the food supply — if you fire all but a skeleton federal government, no way to enforce it —
read the history of what corporate hustlers were selling as food when left to their own devices, unregulated . . . strychnine in candy, chalk in “milk”, etc. . . .
HOWEVER, I doubt this administration actually will. They’re firing everyone and ending food safety. There will be one one enforcing this ban. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
I didn’t know this was happening nationwide, but I’m so glad. My state just banned red 3. I’m allergic to red dye and being a child in the early 2000s was a nightmare with all of the crazy dyed food. With the recent health movement and the increase in the use of beet juice, I’ve been able to try so many new things. Im excited for more!
This could only happen under a republican administration. If Biden had even suggested this, every corner of the right wing media machine would be screaming about a trampling of their personal freedoms
Good idea, but doesn’t matter if you fire all the people who enforce and regulate it. They’ve stopped quality tests on numerous products (milk, for example) because they’re short staffed. Sadly, the dyes are the least of our concerns.
I’m not some weirdo conspiracy person that thinks they are using dye for brain control or giving kids autism or whatever, but as a normal person I can not imagine giving a single hot gay fuck about color dye used in food. So cool, good I guess?
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Probably a good thing but i feel like capitalism will find alternatives.
Good , now they need to ban artificial sweeteners
It’s fine, but is this really what we should be focusing on? Skip this and shore up the department that does food safety checks.
They should have done it a long time ago
Good!
On a side note, I wonder how chips such as Hot cheetos and Doritos, for example, will be modified (if at all).
We’re probs overreacting to it because it seems small scale versus the full scale collapse of modern society that’s going on.
I don’t mind it at all. It’s not like we really need food dye anyway.
Food dyes are completely unnecessary and there’s evidence of link to health related issues. So why not ban them until they can be proven safe and necessary?
Sure, but they’ll probably just come up with something worse as a replacement. Like high fructose corn syrup vs sugar
Weird flex. Am i the only one that sees the banning of safe, legal substances, the silencing of political dissent, the controlling of the media, and thinking, ”this isnt what Republicans are supposed to believe in, is it?”
Am fine with it.
It should have happened years ago with the rest of the world.
What, you don’t want to be feeding your 2 year old child industrial waste products?
What we should really be asking is, does it really matter what color your food is?
It’s dumb and performative, but oh well.
Will be interesting to see if kids like beige froot loops as much as the other ones.
It’s an idea that must have come from the side of the brain the worm didn’t eat.
I don’t disagree with doing it but I think their reasoning for doing so is flawed
I’m happy and I hope the trend continues.
Wondering how they’re going to enforce it after firing everyone
If it’s for valid reasons go for it.
Great idea
US companies are the worst. They sell the same products without that shit in other countries. People still buy it and it doesn’t taste different most of the time.
None
It does not really affect me, because I try, as much as possible, to avoid processed foods that contain shit from a beaker.
Should have happened ten years ago.
Good news, should’ve been done a while ago but even just recently when California tried doing this people on Fox News were calling it the war on skittles or some shit.
Fine with it but it doesn’t make RFK Jr a genius nor a medical person nor is he particularly good at his job
They will use the stuff Europe uses as they have already banned them. Alternatives exist and the big companies will raise prices and put a petroleum free coloring label on it:)
fuck yeaaaaaa!
Who cares unless it’s not based on science? RFK Jr. isn’t very bright, so I can see a lot of head aches for food companies if this is just his imagination run amuk.
They should ban more. It’s all garbage
Is it implemented by my favored political party or my political parties rival? This will determine how about feel about this
A broken analogue clock is right twice a day. Ban away. There’s no need for them. A lot of healthier options dye food with various fruits and vegetables if they feel they must change the color.
Will this be the end of the Cheeto in the Whitehouse?
About damn time
about time is all I can say
The big problem with Doritos is the complete lack of nutritional value. The artificial colors are probably like #10 on the list of bad things about them.
It impacted somebody’s bottom line. No way they did it because it has a poor impact on health
Then we will have to figure out another reason to justify giving children amphetamines. If not neurotoxicity what if not kids who.
The only good thing the Trump administration has done.
I’m all for banning ALL food dyes. If it’s not adding something nutritionally meaningful, it’s just advertising. I look forward to drinking lots of clear colas.
Will we still be able to tell apart the flavors of jelly beans?
We should go back to beetle carapice for red dye like we did for centuries.
They’re infringing on my rights as an AMERICAN!!! The tyrannical government has no right to deny me my god given rights to artificial colors!!!!!
Don’t tread on me, red40, yellow5 (I don’t care about yellow 6, somethins’ wrong with that boy anyways)
General Mills tried switching the dyes used in Trix cereal to naturally occurring colors like beet juice and blueberry juice. Consumers preferred the garish synthetic dyes and artificial flavors to the natural colors and flavors. They still make both versions though.
I’m dearly allergic to all of those so I’ve been wanting to see a move away from them for years. You find those dyes in everything. It’s frustrating.
It should have happened way sooner but I imagine it will be the last positive thing that happens from these people in a long time.
We should go back to beetle carapice for red dye like we did for centuries.
I agree with everyone it should have been done. But I am suspicious of why this consumer friendly idea is being put out when everything else seems designed to take money or rights away
One thing I can agree on from this administration. No complaints. Happy about it.
An important key piece of context is missing from this discussion everywhere I see it. These are petroleum-based synthetic dyes. Petroleum. Oil. The stuff we turn into gasoline. It is getting both more expensive and less relevant to humanity’s continued existence every day. There’s a natural threshold where these dyes would be cost-prohibitive to use anyway and we were already mostly over that threshold well before we even consider the Trump Tax tariffs.
The fact that the government took action is almost irrelevant because government action is so far behind public sentiment, let alone corporate sentiment. There have been cheaper alternatives for many years that have already been widely adopted. The regulators just saw the last dying gasp of a harmful product they didn’t give a shit about and decided to kill-steal it so they could claim an easy win.
No one’s gonna be fighting this. No company is going to say “Hey, petroleum–OPEC oil–is actually a cheap food additive.” in the current market let alone the market that’s on the economic horizon. Especially not the market that foresees America cutting itself out from global trade and losing the status as the world’s reserve currency.
It’s a nothing burger that doesn’t warrant all the news coverage.
I am in favor of it. I think it should have been done when the EU banned them.
Does the science say it’s bad? If the science says it’s bad then it’s bad
Just waiting to see which journalist will publish “here’s why food dyes are good, actually.”
A large faction of people, and larger in the media, hate Trump and anything MAGA more than they love the idea of healthier foods.
So it’s only a matter of time.
Take the colors but leave the fluoride in the water
Rip red 40, you will be missed. Currently stocking up on as much as I can now before it’s gone forever 😔
This is the first I’m hearing of it and I’ll forget about it before tomorrow.
Not sure why anyone would be upset about not ingesting food dyes that can have negative effects.
trump is using the trade war to attempt to dump hormone-infused, antibiotic-fed, chlorine-washed chicken into the EU market, something that no one has asked for and is a non-starter in the EU. Perhaps this move can provide a gateway to ending the standoff by subsequently adopting all EU food safety regulations in the US, and thus harmonizing trade.
A broken clock is right twice a day. This is good news.
“It….Give-s thE ki-ids aut-TIS-sm”
Allergic to carrots and tomatoes and really looking forward to not being able to eat even more foods!
/sarcasm
It about the only thing coming out of this presidency that doesn’t piss me off.
it’s about time
I despise everything about that man, and all he’s trying to do, with the exception of this. There is no justification to keep something known to be harmful in foods. That said, the things he doesn’t have a personal opposition to he will allow. He’s a menace.
Remember when Dems tried to ban big gulp size soft drinks and the GOP showed up with big gulps in hand, slamming all those chemicals and artificial dyes saying it was American. Now Trump has stripped the Clean Water Act and relaxed regulations on what companies can dump in the environment. More chemicals for us all. They don’t give a shit about our health and never did.
Good, but orange man still bad.
If color for god sake… just ban the stuff. Doesn’t change the flavor!
I do not think RFK is a trustworthy person to lead this. I think in the end it will end up being worse than it is because he’s an idiot
It’s stupid. There’s so many other things more dangerous to people than dyes. As long as it’s disclosed on the packaging so consumers can know and choose accordingly, there’s no reason to ban it. There’s much more serious concerns they could focus on. This is a diversion from everything else and a good public relations story.
The only thing im allergic to is yellow 5 so fuck yeah
About time. My daughter has pretty bad allergic reaction to red dye. It’s even in soaps and lotions
All the M&Ms taste the same to me.
Food dyes have no nutritional value and are not healthy to consume. Fact is a lot of food dies that are commonly used in the US are not legal in the EU because they have negative impacts on health. They are used to make food look fresh Or in the case of children to make food seem exciting. Food tastes good, it doesn’t need to look pretty.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Way past time. We should operate on a – keep it out of not first proven safe – philosophy.
If my skittles color looks even a little off it’s going to be January 6 all over again.
Good.
Good. We don’t need coal tar derivatives in our food. There are plenty of options. These are already banned in some European countries and they use natural food dyes instead.
I don’t personally use any of them in my recipes anymore
If we keep doing what Europe does before you know it there will be universal parental leave, healthcare and responsible governments.
Pissed. I can’t cook now.
Is he going to also ban that hideous artificial tan color he’s obviously fond of?
Any food additive that even has the slightest tiniest chance of being harmful should be banned.
I’ll believe it when they actually do the ban. So far there has been a lot of attacks on vaccines (which are the cheapest way to deal with infectious disease). What there hasn’t been is attacks on big money interests.
W but it’s sad that it took this long
Not very capitalistic. The free market doesn’t seem to demand the change.
Needs to go, it’s so toxic and unnecessary! I recently discovered my favorite pickles have yellow dye in the brine, like why?????
I’ll be interested to see if kids have more self control in school. The last 10 minutes of lunch these kids go nuts. I’ve heard people say their kids get crazy when they eat food with coloring in it
Those colors draw in customers and increase sales. The potential lives saved is not worth the potential loss in sales . . .
. . . which is the underlying logic of capitalism. Yay.
Why is it taking so long?
It is one of very few things the US is doing right now that doesn’t bother me.
About fucking time! Europe did it decades ago!
i’m cool with it until it’s replaced with carmine. it’s hard enough finding vegan snacks as it is.
They solved the problem that didn’t exist
Sure. Those are the issues that need our attention.
Should have been done a long time ago. FDA is way behind some other countries in getting rid of these toxic substances
It’s FABULOUS! Should have never allowed it in the first place.
ban every poison in the food supply — if you fire all but a skeleton federal government, no way to enforce it —
read the history of what corporate hustlers were selling as food when left to their own devices, unregulated . . . strychnine in candy, chalk in “milk”, etc. . . .
It doesn’t matter at all?
I have been allergic to them for 60 years so I am sure others are also.
Long overdue.
I’m actually okay with this one.
Dude, I eat crayons as a bedtime snack.
A broken clock is right twice a day.
HOWEVER, I doubt this administration actually will. They’re firing everyone and ending food safety. There will be one one enforcing this ban. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
For the morons here, it depends on who does it. Even if it’s objectively good, they’ll protest against it if a politician they hate supports it.
Yellow 5 and I go way back. Feel like I’m losing a brother
There is absolutely no solid scientific basis for doing so. No evidence of it being harmful, they’re all approved for use in the EU too.
It’s about fucking time!
Other countries have done this years ago. Canada companies have done it voluntarily.
I’m allergic to Red 40, and you would not believe how many things it’s in! GET RID OF ‘EM! Please.
Great, now continue to test for deadly pathogens in meat and dairy products.
I don’t really care tbh. Even if this is good, it’s not worth the clown world we traded it for.
I didn’t know this was happening nationwide, but I’m so glad. My state just banned red 3. I’m allergic to red dye and being a child in the early 2000s was a nightmare with all of the crazy dyed food. With the recent health movement and the increase in the use of beet juice, I’ve been able to try so many new things. Im excited for more!
Should have been done ages ago
This could only happen under a republican administration. If Biden had even suggested this, every corner of the right wing media machine would be screaming about a trampling of their personal freedoms
is there anyone left to even test if they are stiill using it or not?
Red 40 patent just renamed to Red 4D.
Good idea, but doesn’t matter if you fire all the people who enforce and regulate it. They’ve stopped quality tests on numerous products (milk, for example) because they’re short staffed. Sadly, the dyes are the least of our concerns.
I think this isn’t going to get you the karma that other administration questions would produce
So for it.
I’m not some weirdo conspiracy person that thinks they are using dye for brain control or giving kids autism or whatever, but as a normal person I can not imagine giving a single hot gay fuck about color dye used in food. So cool, good I guess?
But if I don’t die from cancer will they make me work more of my life? Just want to weigh out the pos/neg.
Yes, thank you, please get rid of all this garbage in our food.
It’s good and now they only have 7,999 ingredients left to ban