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[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I feel as if perhaps, there are others people who should be eating lead, perhaps forcibly and at great speed

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lunchables are intended for children.

The people responsible for this really need to be given a high speed self-guided tour of an abandoned mineshaft

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

I am well aware and 100% approve

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

School shooters solidarity Companies selling food by weight

       Telling children to 'Eat Lead'
[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lunchables aren't even cheap, calorie for calorie. There's probably more kJ you can get from pyrolyzing the plastic into crude than there is in the food itself.

That's not food, you're eating branding.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You're paying for the pre-portioned servings and the plastic containers. I mean, I get it to an extent - it's quite a bit of work to pack a child's lunch nearly every morning on top of all the other stuff to get ready with a child. I'd love to have the extra 10-15 minutes back, too, but putting the work in saves money and plastic waste, and also avoids stuff like this (as far as I can control at least).

[–] EatPotatoes@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

Free decent breakfasts, lunches and even dinner as part of an extended school day could be such a help for so many parents. So much household labor is required to keep this fucking nightmare on track to killing us all.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

fuck i ate those things semi regularly for years because it was the only ready to eat food i could steal at my workplace

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

Hopefully this is a Grants superpowers situation

[–] roux@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Feeling fancy today. Might buy some food and see how the other half live.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't really trust the more expensive stuff either tbh.

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean that's the reality of living in a failed state where food and water safety standards are adjusted for money.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago
[–] BlueMagaChud@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago

it's the neovictorian era, we're all going to live out of airbnb sleeping coffins and roll the dice on which foods have the least adulteration

[–] fox@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How does lead keep ending up in the food? I could understand environmental exposure in a lead-contaminated field or something but why would anyone build a food processing plant and let lead near it?

[–] BlueMagaChud@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

lots of products that are sold by weight have been found to have lead added to them to cheat the scales including food such as cinnamon recalled last month

[–] fox@hexbear.net 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Lead can't possibly be cheaper than iron or sawdust or something

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Lead is one of the cheapest metals by density.

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago

Also one of the heaviest by volume.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

A quick google suggests lead is about 1/3 the price of iron ore. Nickel is around the same as lead, but it's only about 3/4 as dense.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's also added for sweetness and coloring sometimes.

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Humanity will adapt by evolving into an organism composed of lead, microplastics and petroleum.

[–] OutrageousHairdo@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

You are what you eat.

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

The only choices are you eating lead or the bourgeoisie eating lead