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      Honestly, it is good the system is breaking in this way.

      Politicians are realizing that politics is not just easy money anymore. It’s a job that every person’s life is now suffering from.

      Unions are increasing, climate activism is increasing, people are realizing the defense department may be a corrupt money pit rather then for defense.

      Things are slowly changing, and the CEOs of the republican party are getting out before the roof collapses on them.

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        Politicians are realizing that politics is not just easy money anymore.

        I don’t believe this is accurate. (Gestures to the news, the latest elections, the current batch of gov)

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      I had to skip that one. I just didn’t want to know. But I’m never eating chocolate again because of him.

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        I completely understand. Watching his show made me feel so powerless, frustrated, and angry that I took a pretty long break. That particular episode was the first one I had watched in a long time. I didn’t see the chocolate episode so I don’t know what you’re talking about actually.

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    Ugh, another EWG backed ‘study’ that media decided to report on. They produce sensationalist garbage that matches their ideology and not the science or data.

    For example, if you look at their dirty dozen they list strawberries and all the news about it was showing fresh strawberries. Digging into the data they hadn’t even tested any fresh strawberries, only frozen strawberries, and many of those from international sources. Their conclusions didn’t match data

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    How did I guess this was the Environmental Working Group? This is a pseudoscience pushing fearmongering group who frequently mislead on a variety of topics in order to claim everything is killing you.

    Yes, some contaminants are a concern, but I would want an actual trustworthy source discussing them, not the EWG.

    They’re the ones that were also a big pusher of the “vaccines cause autism” BS.

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    Kind of a negative Nancy headline. I would have said “Most baby food does not contain pesticides!” Reporting is all so senationalisitc and doom and gloom these days.

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      It’s the EWG making the claim. They’re a well known pseudoscience and fearmongering group. They also pushed the “vaccines cause autism” claim in the past.

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      If this claim were true (I see comments saying it’s probably biased), 40% is an extremely high number. Baby’s could eat like 10 to 20 (ballpark example figure, I know it varies) jars of baby food every week, it would suck if 4 to 8 of them had toxins. It’s not like it’s a whole fruit you can wash off. I agree with your point about unnecessary gloom in the news, but I don’t think there’s really much of a bright side to 60% uncontaminated baby food. If they took figures like 5% and sensationalized it I’d agree with you more. 60% is barely “most.”