Jolly Ranchers and Mountain Dew are advertised on TikTok and Instagram but contain products banned in the UK.

Jolly Ranchers and Mountain Dew are advertised on TikTok and Instagram but contain products banned in the UK.

  • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
    191·
    11 months ago

    If everything around us and inside us isn’t somehow related to the oil industry, we Americans would wither and die immediately. Don’t you know?

    Serious answer though: The FDA is slow, inefficient, and likely paid off from banning chemicals, but every once in a blue they do. States like California take a more proactive role in banning chemicals, and since California has an economy larger than some nations, they tend to have a lot of pull, so all is not lost. America is more like the EU these days than a cohesive nation. Some states are cool, some are ok, some are Texas…but…yeah, we really suck as a whole.

    • ██████████@lemmy.world
      24·
      11 months ago

      Santa Cruz California is built around a old Mercury mine with literal Mercury red rocks just being normal rocks all around the city

      Nature is cancerous for the uneducated

      • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        11 months ago

        Not sure about all that as mercury is a liquid at room temperature and I’m unfamiliar with the history of Santa Cruz, but I wasn’t necessarily trying to say California was a guardian of the future. Just that, in this example, they’re large enough in economies of scale that occasionally their decisions have enough weight to help others elsewhere, and that US states sometimes are able to effect improvement via this scale that the US Federal government is incapable of due to it’s Star Warsian ineptitude. Much like how the EU is forcing the Apples of the world to embrace standards like USB-C. Also most of Silicon Valley is basically a giant superfund site, so they got a lot of 'splainin to do.