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Here's What's Actually in Your Favorite Kids' Cereal!

14 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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In this YouTube segment, the presenter critiques the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) capacity to protect food safety, highlighting that the agency employs about 18,000 staff and spends $7‑8 billion annually yet allowed General Mills to launch its new Trix Loaded cereal without apparent FDA resistance. Citing a report from the nonprofit Moms Across America, the speaker claims the cereal exceeds EPA limits for lead (over double), cadmium (over four times), and aluminum (over sixteen times the drinking‑water standard, and contains eight pesticides, including glyphosate). The segment notes ongoing litigation—4,253 lawsuits—against the makers of glyphosate/Roundup for alleged cancer links. The presenter juxtaposes this warning with a media appearance by the Kellogg’s CEO, who suggested feeding children cereal for breakfast and dinner as a solution to inflation, implying industry complacency. The overall message is a call for consumers to be wary of the hidden contaminants in marketed children’s cereals.

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So the FDA has around 18,000 employees. They spend around $7 to $8 billion a year to keep your food safe. Let me tell you what a nonprofit group called Moms Across America just found in your cereal. So last month, General Mills launched a product called Trix Loaded without any resistance from the FDA, and here's what it's loaded with that will slowly kill you: more than double the Environmental Protection Agency's allowable levels for lead, more than 4 times the upper limit of cadmium, more than 16 times the aluminum level standards for our drinking water, and of course the icing on the cake, 8 different pesticides plus glyphosate that has paid out billions of dollars last year for causing people cancer. As of last month, there are still 4,253 lawsuits filed against the owner of glyphosate and Roundup from people saying it caused their life-threatening disease. With all of that, what exactly do the 18,000 employees at the FDA actually do? I can tell you that while Moms Across America is going across America on media warning people, the CEO of Kellogg's is on media telling people that the solution to inflation is not only should they feed their children these cereals for breakfast, but they should also feed it to them for dinner. That really happened.