Guidelines from the Food and Drug Administration provide an interim reference level (IRL) for lead of 2.2 micrograms. The amount of lead found in these nuggets could be as much as five times higher than this IRL for children.
A recall was not requested because the products are no longer available for purchase. However, FSIS is concerned that some product may still be in consumers’ freezers.
You ate them already. Sorry.
—Walmart
This is so dumb, I did the math and you would have to eat hundreds of thousands of nuggets for it to add to to even a single small bullet.
You’re welcome to choose to eat a bullet instead, then
Trump: defunds FDA.
I love the extra 6 words they had to include because they’re made out of assorted Grade D meats.
I probably feed my cat higher quality meat.
Chicken lips and cloacas perhaps.
I know this is beside the point but jesus, the UI for trying to turn off cookies on that site is utter dogshit.
Gotta get the lead back in American children now to create the Republican voters of tomorrow
My county has refused to test our water supply for lead since 2023.
Guess my state.
Livid?
Correct!
Definitely doesn’t start with an “M”
The kids get enough lead at school, this is ridiculous !!
/s
Scrolled way too far down to see this kind of post.
This is deregulation. We inspect our own facilities and of something is found, we optimize for the stockholders.
Lots of kids died eating penny candy and adulterated milk, maybe occasionally adding a hand or arm to the sausage.
This time there’s lots of ag gag laws in place so we may not even get another Upton Sinclair.
Hell all the deregulation is probably why Gen x has butts filled with cancer.
And that’s why most of my grocery shopping is done at Aldi and Lidl!
Aldi is the best. They are a life saver, idk why they don’t expand into more areas, they’ve a great business model. And while idk how they treat their suppliers of food, they actually treat their employees better than any other grocer chain in the US. That I am familiar with.
Aldi bought Winn Dixie, and they are just rolling out the first conversions. Future Aldi’s are going to resemble the classic supermarket.
That is beyond disappointing.
Fortunate to have HEB in Texas. They treat their employees and their customers really well, also, and totally keep out all that Safeway nonsense. Aldi is rapidly expanding in the US, they have stores all over Texas, too
HEB is the best!
I did see and confirm, unfortunately, that Aldi is also using digital price displays, but I don’t have any evidence to confirm if they’re using variable pricing like Walmart.
Where? I am in the upper midwest, and prices are on paper.
Mid-East Coast.
That’s so America lol
It’s really one of the most America things I’ve ever read. I’m fortunate to live in a city in the US, so have no issue avoiding Walmart like the plague, but most of rural America probably bought these nuggets and dropped their kids’ IQs even further
I’m fortunate to live in a city in the US
You forgot the “un” in “unfortunate”. Guess you ate the nuggets allready.
ahhh, here are your meat shaped patties of ground flesh, with a side of corn syrup, just as you ordered. Now gobble up your glyphosate, like a good little patriot
No one can convince me that the combination of lead in gasoline AND the car depend infrastructure of the US is not at least a factor in the world we have today. I really think it’s contributed to the boomer brain and to an extent the Gen X brain to a large degree.
This isn’t to say it’s not the only cause. The main factor still being capitalism rewarding psycho behavior combined with it has definitely brought us to a really really bad place.
Preach it, brother. Americans (and the collective west) got shafted hard with the raw end of the sick when it came to capitalism and its propensity to ignore health and safety, all in the name of profits for the Epstein class.
Food safety has never been one of our strong points.
Hell, people probably ate healthier in the past.
America has serious problems across the board, not just food.
Think it’ll be this year, or '27, when the average life expectancy actually starts to drop?
Neither. They will drop “preventable” deaths from the stat to keep the number high. It’s the same thing they’ve been doing with the unemployment figures.
Ah, that makes sense!
Yeah, I am… much more familiar with how they fuck with the econ stats… would you believe I am a, not unemployed, but ‘out of the labor force’ econometrician?
I’ve been trying to point out the BS going on with econ stats for almost two decades now, and … well I am now one of the statistics.
Look at it this way; if they told the truth, the economy would probably collapse. The stock market is everything, and the stock market is held up by lies and cons.
stonks
Chipped up chicken is the perfect place to hide fillers and contaminants. Can anyone really be surprised that Walmart would add in crap to displace meat volume and save a buck?
If you can’t identify the cut of meat that it came from, you should expect that other shit is in it.
Can’t have lead deficiency in the younger generation. It might lead them to actually think /s
I feel like this happens more often than it should.
It does. Because it costs less to be fined than to actually fix this shit.
First the radioactive shrimp, and now this. Fuckin’ Waltons…
And usually in the US compared to other western countries.
You ate them already. Sorry.
yup. several packages worth. no wonder they were closing them out at something like $2.00 a bag awhile back… they knew
Is nobody really going to push back on “Walmart knew there were traces of lead in their generic dino nuggets, and my evidence is that they clearanced them out one time a while back”? Mind you this was one lot code that we know of. Y’all are really about to make me defend Walmart and animal agriculture? Me? Why can’t this be about corporate negligence? Anemic regulation? The way animal agriculture is prone to this sort of problem? Anything that’s not obviously unfalsifiable bullshit?
You could just do what the rest of us did and nod your head and not defend walmart?
It’s not like walmart is above it, and it certainly isn’t like walmart needs you defending them.
You could just do what the rest of us did and nod your head and not defend walmart?
Apparently unlike you, intellectual dishonesty is the more difficult option for me.
They said they ate several bags of 'em, blame the lead poisoning.
I don’t know if I’m more surprised the nuggets have lead in them, or that the FDA realised it was a bad thing, and actually warned people about them!
Seriously. How, the fuck, does LEAD get ANYWHERE NEAR food nowadays?
from the pipes, and metal manufacturing equipment.
lunchables recently were exposed to high lead levels, and many spices may contain lead.
Lead can be used to cheaply increase the weight of.a product. It is also used for whitening surfaces that benefit from that. Chinese manufacturers have been caught doing both many times, I would start with tracing the origin of this chicken.
Lead is in the soil, along with other heavy metals, pfas, and all sorts of shit, thousands of things. Including huge amounts of whatchacall it, flouride. I know you guys all trust that one, but it’s an industrial byproduct of aluminum smelting and is in the soil in high levels in places like where california raisens are grown. Also it’s a different molecule of flouride that the naturally occurring one. Sweet dreams.
To be fair, I don’t think the producers of that particular chicken nugget intentionally poisoned it with lead.
Although I honestly don’t know what would be worse at this point. The actual intent to do this or the unbelievable negligence that caused it in the first place.
I’ve heard they’ve been rebranded as “Chicken Leadles”
“The sky is falling, just like our prices!”
Lead is cheaper than chicken, so they’re just deep-frying dinosaur-shaped cakes of lead now
By not containing meat but instead indigestible minerals, they’re actually closer in composition to what’s left of dinosaurs.
nervous tissue, and lymph glands.
🤤. Ngl, that’s what I want in my nuggies.
