Tuesday, May 21, 2024

TRAVIS: This is absolutely insane. The FBI authorized the use of deadly force when they raided Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago.

Produce Maxx is produced by Chemistar Corp., which was acquired by Ecolab in 2019. Ecolab's largest shareholder at around 21% is none other than Bill Gates.


Do grocery stores mist produce with pesticides?  

My friend, Eugene Trufkin, recently sent me a photo of an antimicrobial pesticide called ProduceMaxx above the produce section in Sprouts.  Produce Maxx contains the active ingredient hypochlorous acid and is produced by Chemistar Corp., which was acquired by Ecolab in 2019. Ecolab's largest shareholder at around 21% is none other than Bill Gates.  Produce Maxx is diluted in water and used in misters or sinks for a number of whole and cut produce items that you can see here listed on the screen.  The pesticide is approved for conventional and organic produce to kill E coli, salmonella, and listeria.  As I mentioned, the active ingredient in Produce Maxx is hypochlorous acid which forms up to 6,000 parts per million of free available chlorine in the whole bottle.  Our bodies produce small amounts of hypochlorous acid, and I couldn't find any information on whether it is or isn't safe to ingest in trace amounts.  ProduceMaxx is supposed to be diluted in water so that there's 30 to 60 parts per million of free available chlorine in produce treatment sinks and misters.  It appears that the grocery store employees are responsible for getting this concentration correct by using testing strips.  It is unclear what residents remain on produce as it doesn't have to be washed off according to the instructions in the EPA approval letter.  It's reasonable to assume that it would only be a fraction of the 30 to 60 parts per million since that concentration is used across all of the produce.  What we don't know is how often these misters run and how much of this accumulates on the produce.

Being Jewish in New York

REP. JODEY ARRINGTON (R-TEXAS): $9,000 roughly per illegal immigrant that taxpayers are fronting

A press release from Arrington's office reads

The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has done a great job. Studies suggest this cost is upwards of $400 billion, but their cost estimate is $150 billion. The lion's share of that cost is borne by state and local governments. State and local governments can't borrow or print money like the federal government, so they have to balance their budgets by either absorbing this cost through raising taxes or they have to cut services to their citizens.

This $150 billion, when you look at the 22 million people that are estimated to be in this country illegally, comes out to about $9,000 tax dollars per illegal immigrant. Roughly $9,000 per illegal immigrant that taxpayers are fronting. That's more than we spend per Medicaid beneficiary. That's more than we spend on the most vulnerable American citizen for their health care. That's more than we spend for our heroes and our veterans in the way of military retirement benefits.
 

SALADINO ON CHICK-FIL-A: 100% Real Chicken has 47 Ingredients? There's nothing Grade A about this junk food at all.

The capital A stands for Grade A, top-quality chicken.  

Their grilled chicken sandwich contains 47 ingredients in the chicken alone, including dimethylpolysiloxane, which is a silly putty ingredient, anti-foaming, three different types of seed oils, including soybean and canola oils, multiple types of gums, including xantham gum . . . 

Though they boast about top-quality chicken, while in March 2024, they removed their stipulation that all their chicken be antibiotic-free.  As it says on their website, this is 100% real chicken.  Everybody here at the counter told him it was 100% real chicken.  100% Real Chicken has 47 Ingredients?  There's nothing Grade A about this junk food at all.