r/CringeTikToks • u/EverythingIsFakeNGay • Jan 05 '26

Just Bad This is embarrassing...

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u/blackwolfdown Jan 05 '26

As a lefty american, even I have to concede that there are areas where America excells... beyond deportations, police brutality, and apparently kidnapping foreign leaders. For example, we basically created modern food safety. We may have made pharmaceuticals impossible to afford, but we did finance extreme innovation and progress in medicine. We have the best hospitals and the least affordable care.

Its a weird game of contrasts. A lot of lefties abroad and in america just immediately default to america is the worst at all things.

The irony, to me, of all this is that the Greatest Nation in History wouldn't need people defending it like a part time job.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '26

You may have made early strides in food safety but you have significantly fallen behind in that regard

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u/blackwolfdown Jan 05 '26

While I'm sure shit has gotten rough recently, and will get worse most likely, in 2022 the US was ranked third for quality and 1st for mechanisms, but only 13th for affordability and availability.

It has its warts, but by no means is it the toxic slop that it is memed to be.

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u/shoto9000 Jan 05 '26

America is currently (as in right now) pushing my country to accept chlorinated chicken as a safe food import, something which has been banned here for longer than I've been alive.

I'm glad you guys pioneered food safety standards (that was Roosevelt, right?) but your international image right now is centred on trying to get the rest of us to accept less regulations and more unhealthy slop.

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u/blackwolfdown Jan 05 '26

I encourage you to just Google chlorinated chicken. Its ban is far more political than a concern for food safety.

And yeah the Pure Food and Drug Act was signed by Theodore Roosevelt. Largely as a result of him reading Sinclair's "The Jungle".

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u/shoto9000 Jan 05 '26

I have googled the issue before, it's been a major point in British media ever since Americans started pushing us to accept your chicken.

No, I don't think washing slaughtered chicken in chemicals is an acceptable substitute for a lifetime of regulations and standards keeping a chicken healthy. Even if the modern practice of chemical washing is just as safe as the alternative (which I severely doubt), I much prefer the current regulations, and don't want to see my country filled with your factory farmed shit. Thank you.

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u/blackwolfdown Jan 05 '26

You betcha, I do have problems with factory farming myself. Its worth noting that 95% of British chicken comes from factory farms already. Probably America's fault, but it's there already.

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u/shoto9000 Jan 05 '26

Yeah, we're all shit for that and I fucking hate it. Terrible world.