Horrifying. I’ve heard some lead compounds taste sweet, but wtf? How about sugar or just artificial sweetener even?
By replacing sugar with lead, they can claim “no added sugar” and have their product still tasty and therefore desirable and selling well by adding something not tested for. It’s just good business sense really… of course, this shows the problems inherent in profit seeking.
Turns out to be not good business sense as they got caught, and it’s likely to destroy the brands as well as the manufacturer.
Ya, “good business sense” is so often one of those things that is only good in a very short-sighted selfish way that ends up being criminal.
Maybe it’s cheaper
Probably, but that’s some very extreme penny pinching.
I don’t know tbh.
At scale saving fractions of a penny makes a big difference.
They could even get paid to cleanup lead for another company.
Seems like they found a way to revert the decline of MAGA voters after many of them died from covid.
The cases span more than two dozen states.
American children could be linked to deliberate additives in the food’s cinnamon flavoring, and is inspecting a food facility in Ecuador.
You might want to pass on anything cinnamon flavored this holiday season. Not that I have to remind anyone.
But this is starting to look like this was deliberate, and that it is in more than one product.
The developmental problems those kids are going to have with an early dose of lead will mentally stunt them for years to come.
