Walmart and Costco "Poison Foods" Go Viral: "Our food is being replaced"

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[@Lawnmowingmylawn]

First

[@Erikj-fd8pz]

You are wrong ,there is a French study that proves that gmos give you cancer .look things up .stop calling it theory's

[@mattastray8813]

I don't have a partner, all dem women in Germany seem to be crazy lol

[@PublicServiceForTruth]

Billly gates appeal fruit and vegetable coatings are to blame, they put those in chambers full of harmful chemical vapours, if it's not that i dont know what else could be

[@Leenivers.___]

If a watermelon is fizzing it means that it has either been fermented or has gone bad

[@Leenivers.___]

Some fruits can also become like rubber if they were treated with certain pesticides, for example ethephon

[@fabdragon2071]

Yeah fruits have a crazy amount of diversity, we just eat a small amount of them. Most of these seem pretty explainable.

[@rave755]

@@Leenivers.___ To save energy, some trucking companies have switched to dry ice to keep the produce fresh and a side effect has been the rubbery texture.

[@lolalalia4119]

@@Leenivers.___ right?! Like these people have never seen a deflated watermelon. I just made dinner using the last of my vegetables - they were all "rubbery" and I thought, "dang, I could really mess with people if I showed my rubbery cauliflower and broccoli that bounced 😂 it's not bad, it's just time to do the groceries

[@KirstenlyArt]

whats more telling is the people int he video were gagging and saying "it doesnt smell good"

[@nachocheeba]

Watermelons that fizzle when cut mean they're fermenting. And cracks inside the watermelon means it's drying out or didn't get enough water in them.

[@killerkv175]

pretty much correct, cracks are also pretty normal when it comes to my country's production of watermelons mainly due to local heat waves(tropical country issues). another thing im surprised is how usa is so obsessed with gmo stuff, like for my country, its a saving grace if it get produced more for my country.(we use selective breeding but, its does not produce the best variant of the food, its either resistance first or taste first, and we cant get a strong and good middle point, we have some gmo variant which did get qualities we wanted but rare)

[@TheGaleden]

And if you ever look at images of what watermelons used to look like before they were bred to look like they do now, the cracks kinda look like what the insides of those did.

[@pigcatapult]

Yeah I'm 1:27 in and this guy's saying "it's so unnatural" over a watermelon splitting where its segments naturally come together? If the inside of the watermelon is going to structurally fail, where else do you think it's gonna split???

[@bsanchez3563]

@@pigcatapult huh., never heard of a watermelon startibg out in sections.. but tifo so cool to think of.

[@waynewood5344]

If you buy "food" at Walmart you don't know what food is!

[@rave755]

While working at Walmart, I noticed that to save energy, some trucking companies have switched to dry ice to keep the produce cold during transit. This may be a side effect of it as it has been known to change the texture.

[@magusesper616]

Makes sense

[@americangirlx4]

​@magusesper616 No they're very different processes. Look up differences between centuries old methods of grafting plants for new varieties vs gmo!! How do u feel about fish DNA being inserted in ur strawberries?? Now weird texture, pale, tasteless, but withstand 🥶 temp drops!! Flounder 🐟 berries...yummm!!

[@magusesper616]

What does any of that have to do with transportation of fruit with dry ice affecting fruits texture?

[@stephanie3873]

I don't think avocados need to be stored in dry ice. I bought some avocados a few months back and it was weird! Cut it in half after a week of letting it ripe. It felt like rubber! They never turned ripe. Left one out all day. Didn't even turn brown. It was weird! Never got another one from Walmart again!

[@TamaraDippel]

@@magusesper616 Might be another reason for different texture in the strawberries?

[@MannyBots]

Lol y'all are worried by an exploding potato? I've known since I was _five_ to ventilate the potato by poking holes into it to _prevent_ it exploding! Good grief have we seriously devolved into a society that can't bother to learn how to cook? 🤦

[@X2Wolverine]

Same, but i was 6. My dad was the master griller in the family and taught me a lot of tips. Edit: I Hulk-Smashed your like button.

[@sfr2107]

I wish we were required to take periodic recertification tests on things like basic science, math, driving, etc or we can't use our full privileges of citizenship until we do. A lot of this ignorance is insane in a country like this.

[@lorisilverstein3010]

Or read, or be able to write in cursive, who can not tell time and rely on digital clocks. Who can not calculate you basic state sales tax in a sale when they loose electricity. Yeah society has been DUMBED DOWN for years. Even when I was in Junior High, the local government was stating that NEWS reports on TV and in newspapers were at 6th grade level in the 1970's.

[@elonever.2.071]

@@sfr2107 It is called Marxist programming. Ignorant people are the easiest to control.

[@jbyepitsme4330]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@blaah9999]

You’re supposed to poke holes in the potato skin. When you heat things up they expand. If the thing covering them doesn’t have any give or holes for the steam to escape… it will explode. Similar to putting a raw egg in the microwave… the yolk will possibly explode if you don’t poke it with a fork.

[@bsanchez3563]

Oh yeah I do recall that hehe.. true for sure on eggs heck even a paper upside down plate a right sidecup paper plate for 3 eggs is good to ensure it still can not make a mess for when i do if I do not stir the stuff it makes steam still.. idk if just is on a bigger more powerful unit or what but yeah.

[@wintersprite]

That’s too much logic for these people 😂.

[@Simone.Templar]

Exactly. People have forgotten how to bake a darn potato 🥔

[@nunya8903]

Facts.

[@kimwalsh]

Did you see that potato's insides after the Boom! Didn't look normal to me - little balls like things, should it not be mushy at that point? I don't know sorry I just don't know haheeheha

[@sarahsheepdog]

The exploding potato 🙄 I'm convinced these are just people who have never cooked in their lives.

[@tuggingtugging5540]

Artificial food,or the government is being a piece of trash.

[@mintberry3164]

​@@tuggingtugging5540 No, you need to poke holes in a potato before you bake or microwave a whole one, or else it will explode. The other fruit behaves as its been frozen and thawed before sold.

[@ARCAUDreamSans]

Agreed

[@Simone.Templar]

Potatoes do explode if you put them in the oven too long and dry them out.

[@bsanchez3563]

@@Simone.Templar maybe but just poke it with a fork a couple times if you microwave

[@AKbaby89]

Wait until people find out what corn looked like before we genetically modified it😂

[@linnymiddy]

Or carrots

[@anthonyruth5606]

Or pumpkins

[@Lucywilliams-s3c]

Do you have an explanation for the chicken one?

[@Delimon007]

Pretty much any vegetable or fruit. Humans aren't herbivores and you pretty much can't eat any plants in the wild. People really struggle with knowing the most basic information.

[@paulhaul1855]

Or bananas

[@DannyDevito606]

The banana one looks like it could just be a plantain, they look like bananas but have a starchy taste and texture like potatoes.

[@madisonevans7950]

Yee that one was def normal. Some of these other ones tho... Got me feeling a lil sus

[@CuboidTheScratcher]

yes i love them

[@dietotaku]

aren't plantains like half the size of bananas? they always looked like mini bananas to me.

[@laciewings]

@@dietotaku plantains can be bigger/same size as bananas. I've seen a lot of big plantains

[@madisonevans7950]

@@dietotaku nah they can come full sized as well. Just diff types of plantains

[@kristennelson5898]

Watermelons have those cracks all the time and potatoes can explode if u dont poke them this is known fact

[@sully-coco]

Yep as a kid I'd sometimes get watermelon with sections like that. It's nothing new.

[@yinnetteolivo]

AVOCADOs are the only fruit that are rubbery if they are too new/green or if they are too old. LOL Its crazy, Im from Dom rep and you need to test avoacados..the only fruit that will gaslight you into cutting it too early.

[@gloomysunday9534]

gaslight you 🤣 you made me laugh 😂😂

[@bella78305]

Came here to say this. I didn't know about it and went to take a bite after fighting to get it open and it was like chewing a rubber dog toy lol. We all learn somehow

[@amandahouse9206]

I wish someone put these foods under a literal microscope.....

[@pjelly633]

I have a microscope and I've tried to find the brands of fruit and veg that these people claim to be fake.....I've not found any,.

[@lolalalia4119]

@@amandahouse9206 these are all just produce that's gone bad or been stored wrong. Watermelon DOES fizz - it's just the what moving after being cut. Watermelons also turn to rubber, explode, deflate, and melt 😂 just made dinner with the last of veggies. They were all rubbery. That's just what vegetables do

[@joshuabrown2134]

exactly...

[@Bigfootbeliever2022]

Same!

[@pjlav6304]

Nah coz that would take away from the "spooky" vibes these kids trying to experience

[@caseyj779]

My mom and I have been using the same fudge recipe for 20 years. For the first time ever this year the marshmallows that melt into the recipe would not melt. We have never had that problem before. There are absolutely at the very least strange preservatives in our food that is causing it to not behave like food does. It does not melt or decay like food should.

[@Lawnmowingmylawn]

“never trust what you see. Even salt looks like sugar.” -B.L Berry

[@jessicacox2005]

Listen imma use that one, it's hilarious 😂

[@meemo32086]

LOL!!

[@jangminoona]

It doesn't tho, sugar reflects light and salt does not 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@rustyshackleford7200]

@@Lawnmowingmylawn lol no it wasn't you were just flat wrong.

[@Lawnmowingmylawn]

@@rustyshackleford7200 it’s a saying, btw.

[@reanndacli3421]

I’m convinced these people just don’t know when foods are old, aren’t ripe yet and are mixing them up with other foods like plantains with bananas

[@mlynettepinky595]

A lot of food doesn't taste or look the same. I got Popeyes chicken last week. It didn't taste like chicken, it didn't have any taste to it and it was rubbery and tough, real chewy and rubbery

[@rowanrobbins]

@@mlynettepinky595 Over cooked.

[@Twylitegalaxy]

10000% this. Like are people too far dense to realize when a fruit is or isn’t ripe ??? Or is bad?

[@tThisNThat]

I have been making meals for a very long time. This is happening. It sucks to see it happening. Sure there might be some new to cooking tips...But trust me when I say...our food is dead. We have a health crisis like no other time in history. We are being poisoned and the FDA is allowing it.

[@Leslie_Knope]

​@@Twylitegalaxy Explain the silicone blueberry mixed in with real blueberries. They've been messing with our food for many decades. Wake up.

[@TuningAnApple]

These people just seem like they dont usually eat fruit or have never had the experience of bad fruit before.

[@cheyennemolinari1164]

Fr.

[@with_out_a_name]

so all of them around the same time with weird smell, shape and taste ?

[@SummonSkeletons]

how does one seem like they don't eat fruits? is there a stereotype? What a strange thing to say lol

[@ARCAUDreamSans]

Fr ny dad works at costco and this makes me feel disgusted tiktok people do this for clout or something.

[@hnichole]

@@SummonSkeletons Their point is that they seem like they don't eat fruit because a lot of these complaints are standard fruit/vegetable stuff that isn't that unusual. So the fact that people are making it a big deal kind of makes you question if they eat/cook fruits and vegetables on a regular basis lol.

[@ArcticWoofxD]

This give me those “China Fakes Everything” vibes

[@hankanderson1091]

some of these like the watermelons are just rotten

[@terenarosa4790]

​@@hankanderson1091 even the rubbery part?

[@Da_bear-ij9gm]

@@hankanderson1091does it not also concern you that stores are fine with selling rotten and out of season fruits?

[@BackWoodsBandit59]

@@Da_bear-ij9gmwell, bad fruit are bound to happen in the weeks it takes to travel fruits to your grocery store, and the time it takes for these people to actually pick them. Not many employees would think about it, or care about unless the fruit is literal liquid

[@kimicappiello5480]

I thought the same thing...

[@Shridra]

I'm only like 2 minutes in, but I can already tell you as a big gardener that a lot of this is caused by growing conditions and the weird weather we're having. My zucchini this year was really weird and rubbery and tasteless, AND I GREW IT FROM SEED.

[@maymayyyy]

aren't they just genetically modified??? I mean... bananas as we know them did not exist in nature

[@unturned6066]

Modified to not rot?

[@maymayyyy]

@unturned6066 that too

[@dabuttdoctor5790]

yeah that's my guess, too. All the "genetically modified organisms", or GMO foods, would make sense to have other, weird changes not anticipated. It means "organism whose genome has been engineered in the laboratory in order to favour the expression of desired physiological traits or the generation of desired biological products," (Britannica). These scientists/companies are playing with life, here... yikes :/

[@magusesper616]

We have changed corn a lot over time was more of a bush I've heard.

[@Da_bear-ij9gm]

Everything has been genetically modified for a long time. That doesn’t explain why it’s different recently. My hypothesis is using farming practices that produce things quickly also happens to produce things that are tasteless. It’s capitalistic greed and desire to make profits off garbage products

[@yougosquishnow]

The watermelons all just look like they have gone bad

[@ColdCreekB]

Watermelon liquifies when it goes bad, because it’s mostly water to begin with.

[@kithe304]

@@ColdCreekBwatermelon doesn’t just instantly liquify when it starts to rot. having been a produce worker for Costco, i can assure you you that those watermelons are going bad. watermelons take a few days to start to fully liquify. also knowing that most of these fruits are not only GMO, but sit for weeks on trucks, in warehouses, etc before being sold makes them spoil quicker/they don’t ripen correctly

[@Im.2co0l]

@@kithe304yeah the watermelon that started to fizz seemed like it was fermenting, no wonder why it smelt bad

[@kithe304]

@@Im.2co0l yea that one definitely was starting to ferment. the amount of watermelons i’ve had to deal with that were fermented and half liquified when reaching to pick it up and it literally EXPLODES😭😭a horror i don’t wish on anyone

[@ava4689]

@@kithe304 ugh you poor soul, I can picture that. I used to work at a little petting zoo/farmers market/donut shop place, and my coworker and I were the only competent employees there, I swear. We only worked on Sunday, but when we did we would deal with things like that. We once had to fill up a big bucket, because the tomatoes were going bad. The ones on the bottom were all liquefied and growing mold, and the mold was spreading to the rest of them. No one else all week decided that was an issue. That bucket got so full.

[@katekursive1370]

This is what happens when you're so detached from food production you think nuts come from candy bars

[@X2Wolverine]

Those people are nuts I'll see my way out

[@jangminoona]

This 💯

[@uneakk]

I feel like it's just America being America and using wayyyy too many preservatives and probably ones banned in other countries. We don't have fruit, meat and veg like this in Australia.

[@ElleVee1980]

Must be nice. The US still gives us stuff with chemicals most other countries banned a long time ago.

[@don-tl6hu]

​@@ElleVee1980Were being poisoned in the U.S. Kinda makes you wonder why all the extra crazy going on

[@don-tl6hu]

​@@ElleVee1980Were being poisoned in the U.S. Kinda makes you wonder why all the extra crazy going on

[@JSRphones]

@@ElleVee1980 I really, really want to leave this country...

[@ElleVee1980]

@JSRphones me too.

[@blaah9999]

Show me the magnets directly on the raw chicken… the magnets are likely sticking to the plastic wrap… the trader joes ones aren’t sticky plastic wrap, its the more smooth plastic seals like the ones they seal boba tea with.

[@yoopergirl735]

That's what I was thinking. The plastic wrap.

[@tonyfair487]

Yes, I don't see how it being GMO would make it magnetic.

[@adaramadison3929]

Exactly!!! Fear mongering is so real on tiktok 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[@ava4689]

nah it looked like it was sticking, but people faked magnetization with the covid shot too.

[@pauls5745]

Real is so cheap to grow, why invest in expensive chemical imitation? This is ridiculous. Veggies past their prime, esp at room temp. will not snap but bend.

[@dcscruz2970]

Because people demand longer lasting fruit. Mostly old people who forget to check what they have and over buy a lot. And zero sugar everything when fruit is well, has natural sweets cause energy

[@Da_bear-ij9gm]

That’s what ignorant people are missing here, growing food the fastest way all year round produced garbage quality. So really you’re saying the same thing in different words

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

Yeah, a lot of it is stuff that was ether stored improperly or not picked at it's prime. Blueberry lady is likely hoaxing and that looks like a fruit snack or gummy candy.

[@pigcatapult]

20:46 wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, did you just seriously use *PETA* as a source? Unironically? And you expect us to take you seriously as a purveyor of information?

[@X2Wolverine]

People Eating Tasty Animals

[@sarahc8862]

Yeah that makes me suspicious as well, Peta is a terrorist organization

[@Amethyst.i]

People shouldn’t take KZbinrs with no actual experience as reliable information sources regardless. These are entertainers

[@gloomysunday9534]

@@Amethyst.i thats why i always do my own research when i see videos like that, like the number thing, he said 3 is gmo but no it says that starting with a 3 or 4 means it was grown conventionally with pesticide, just wash it 🤷‍♀gmo is 8, its just little things like that can spread misinformation

[@Amita8505]

Right??? The irony is palpable 🙄

[@lady_k5588]

Pretty soon we'll all be waiting in line on Tuesdays for Soylent Green. Remember, Tuesday is Soylent Green Day.

[@Ozziecatsmom]

What? No more taco Tuesdays!🌮

[@meggo329]

ITS PEOPLE

[@bettaaesthetics7791]

I feel like these are people that are finally learning about fruits in season vs out of season

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

They are so removed from nature that they see produce and meat as this static homogenous thing with no variations.

[@DL-idk]

But the inside of blueberries shouldn’t look like that. Because fun fact: the inside of blueberries isn’t blue or purple or black.

[@ANPC-pi9vu]

@@DL-idk It looked like a fruit snack or some sort of chewy gummy candy shaped like a blueberry. The woman is just hoaxing.

[@kissimmeedisney]

Also, I am 55. When I was younger we used to be able to grow plants from the seeds from our fruits and veggies. Now too many things are seedless and if they have seeds they just don't grow! All seedless are genetically modified.

[@GaisSacredCreations]

Biology 101, look up the works of Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian monk hailed as the father of modern-day genetics. A mathematician who studied botany, experimenting with pea plants for hybridization. Bananas were domesticated over 7000 years ago from bananas with seeds, over that period of time. they were constantly hybridized to create bananas with more edible fruit and smaller and smaller seeds. 7000 years...GMOs have existed for 51 years. Seedless fruits are not GMOs. Instead, they are created by taking advantage of natural occurrences, such as rare mutations that prevent fertilization. Farmers then propagate these rare instances and encourage the future growth of seedless plants through different farming techniques. Seedless fruits can also be produced using hormone application, crossbreeding, or ploidy breeding. For example, most seedless grapes today derive, at least in part, from the Thompson variety. Some species, such as tomato, pineapple, and cucumber, produce fruit that is seedless if not pollinated but will produce seeded fruit if pollination occurs.

[@Shaddowbanned215]

​@@GaisSacredCreationsI think you kinda made their point

[@elonever.2.071]

@@Shaddowbanned215 Look up * Genetically Modified vs selective breeding* and you will see that he did not.

[@elawrence183]

I bought grapes from Costco more than a decade ago, put them in my fridge, forgot they were in the fridge, and when they were discovered more than a month later in the fridge, they looked just as fresh as they did the day I bought them. I trashed those grapes and have never bought anymore grapes from Costco, or any other fruit for that matter.

[@LindaLord-nr9pr]

The lack of taste is nothing new.

[@lolalalia4119]

True! I thought I hated tomatoes til I visited Amsterdam. I didn't know tomatoes were supposed to be sweet

[@bsanchez3563]

​@@lolalalia4119iirc that means plants have less sugar from the sun ie photosynthesis.. but yeah I do reclal the warter in a blueberry makes it big the sun makes it sweet so a drier year plus lowclevel wateringvmakes forca tart smaller berry vs the water and not so much sun in a years growth etc.. or harvest makes big less sweet berries.

[@lolalalia4119]

@@bsanchez3563 yes but in my case, it's more to do with the rampant petrochemical pollution in Houston and harvesting/shipping practices for imported produce. I used to work at a 100% organic GMO free food coop and even the locally sourced produce quality has drastically changed.

[@ARCAUDreamSans]

Idk what this year is becoming.

[@notjustanotherbrickinthewall]

@@lolalalia4119yes! Tomatoes are actually a fruit. But we treat it like a veg. But even here in EU countries tomatoes aren’t as they used to be. We grew our own when I was little. The whole house would smell of fresh tomatoes and they were full of taste. Today’s tomatoes even bought at the market aren’t smelling that nice or have the flavour they used to. I don’t eat tomatoes anymore, only the cherry tomatoes.

[@lolaj9701]

Hiiii lady who grows her own food and still grabs occasional stuff from Walmart- 1. Y’all have never seen food before 2. Everything is genetically modified

[@jacklow9611]

Which has removed flavors from food and scent from flowers.

[@rowanrobbins]

2: No, it's NOT. The foods that are are always labeled as such.

[@HobieInTheBox]

All those fruit tiktoks are literally just unripe, rotten or fermented fruits. Geez louise it's like google isn't even a source anymore.

[@Shaddowbanned215]

Did you just suggest that Google is a reliable source?

[@HobieInTheBox]

@Shaddowbanned215 ....you can Google WHY fruit behaves or looks a certain way.

[@angiebervinkle1575]

Potatoes have always have blown up in the oven ive done it myself

[@DudeitsVero]

Kinda fun, I understand the hot potato game now

[@WithBailey]

It's because you're supposed to poke them with a fork a few times, otherwise the steam can't escape and the potato can explode

[@blaah9999]

FINALLY people with brains.

[@TradBarbie]

Irish person here. I've burned mine more times than most have even cooked them. Never had one do that.

[@KimClarke777]

British viewer here, I did have a potato explode in the oven. It was so odd I took a photo of the empty skin and potato bits everywhere

[@davesmilingcoyote]

IDGAF what “experts” 🙄say.. I know what freaking fruits and vegetables are supposed to look and taste like..

[@jasmineh8482]

I stopped shopping at Costco 5 years ago when I noticed more and more fruit they sold didn't have seeds. We are what we eat

[@maxr4448]

Bill Gates should be forced fed his monster food!

[@RF0rty]

i bought a big pack of romaine lettuce and i forgot about it in my fridge. i noticed after a month or 2 it looked fresh like i just bought it. I left it there for another 5 months and it still looked fresh : /

[@juniz.dragons]

overripe watermelon IS rubbery.

[@tThisNThat]

the point is..if it is overripe it should be rotting...NOT looking like it was just picked.

[@juniz.dragons]

@@tThisNThat overripe doesnt mean rotting. overripe fruit is safe to consume, rotting fruit isnt.

[@tThisNThat]

@@juniz.dragons Well technically it is starting to rot. But fruit rots from the outside in. and the fruit I get lately is rotting on the inside out.

[@mangofree]

⁠@@tThisNThat fruit more commonly will rot from the outside in but it absolutely can rot from the inside out. It just depends on the reason the fruit is going bad. There are types of rot and bacteria and fungi that can get inside the fruit and it will rot from the inside out. It’s super weird and unsettling because it just feels kinda wrong since it looks perfectly fine on the outside but it can totally happen for, maybe kinda gross, but normal reasons.

[@rihyoncéastraschild]

4:52 never expected to see Hayley here lol

[@Catbeansrcuterawrrrrrr]

Same

[@Trey_Sucks_At_Art]

Who is this?

[@KRISTINA-mm1uf]

I like her alot but she yells too much

[@mintkiity]

Neither did I

[@rihyoncéastraschild]

@@KRISTINA-mm1uf *_THAT’S NOT WHAT A CHRISTMAS TREE IS SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE!!!_* 🤬🤬🤬

[@shaunnarichards2716]

The funny part is, if you've eaten a banana you've eaten genetically modified produce.

[@tinyfrog919]

Apricots

[@latonyanewsome0]

Yep! I didn't know kale was genetically modified.

[@TradBarbie]

Yeah selective growing isn't the same as splicing.

[@elinazariel]

Yeah we wouldn't want to eat those extremely seedy and bitter original bananas 😂😂 I guess there are many people in the world who dont know how many of our foods were modified ages ago.

[@meggo329]

This sh;t 🤫is bananas b a n a n a s

[@analuisabento2449]

The fruit looks like it was Frozen and defrost

[@fleetwoodray]

If they are stating that the food is just bad, then why are they selling "bad" food to us all? What ever happened to Quality Control? When did selling bad food become the norm?

[@lovepeach1967]

Protect the health of the soil and water. Do not use these toxic laundry products that are polluting water and air, stay close to nature and keep you environment with clean air, good natural food and awareness

[@brianmoore6490]

Chef here. Most of the vegetable issues brought up are generally caused when they are partially or temporarily frozen. As for meat, Lab made meat costs way too much for anyone to substitute them for real. It makes no sense! Much of this video is just hyperbole.

[@dorothytucker9305]

Yes, and a 56" TV used to cost $8k. Technology moves fast.

[@rowanrobbins]

@@dorothytucker9305 Not in food production.

[@AussieWinter]

Yes, my first thought just watching the intro. Cold storage ruins the flavour & texture of fruit & veg.

[@lindabuck2777]

Stay unintelligent and unconscious 🤡 gaslighting is unacceptable and insulting! 🤡🤔🤔🤔

[@LookAwaaay]

The wobbly watermelon was probably cooled at just about 0 degrees celsius. And the cracked watermelon: all watermelons do that when they are really ripe.

[@latonyanewsome0]

I got organic baby carrots from Walmart. When I opened them, they were slimy. I told myself that I would never again buy produce of any kind from Walmart.

[@susanngrant206]

All baby carrots are soaked in bleach. Never buy these. Buy real whole carrots and peel them!

[@fabdragon2071]

I'm pretty sure an agriculture scientist could answer most of these questions.

[@prettyhatemachine100]

So there's an acceptable excuse that my bread doesn't get moldy now?? Sleep much?

[@nicciebunny]

😂 who Bill Gates

[@psychic7615]

Blueberries are actually white inside, not blue. 😮

[@bsanchez3563]

Iirc blueberries are well real pnes are purple like not blue for some reason

[@milesfann33]

@@bsanchez3563 What are Lirc blueberries? And what are Pnes? Why are Pnes purple but not blue?

[@bsanchez3563]

@@milesfann33 hehe fair point, I inadvertebtky left the first I on htere capitalized.. but but both.. hence it looks like an L. But misspelled ones. Also idk why, however I DO know or recall, in many itens blueberries are really dyed apple bits if you notice such as in muffin mix.

[@AppyChole]

I always wash my produce before I eat it. I peel EVERYTHING too! A four-digit food code that starts with a 4 usually indicates that the food is conventionally grown, meaning it was produced with chemical fertilizers, herbicides, or fungicides: Conventionally grown A four-digit code that starts with a 3 or 4 indicates that the produce was grown conventionally. For example, a conventionally grown banana would have a PLU code of 4011. Organic A five-digit code that starts with a 9 indicates that the produce was raised organically and was not treated with any chemicals. For example, an organic banana would have a PLU code of 94011. Genetically modified A five-digit code that starts with an 8 may indicate that the produce was genetically modified. For example, a genetically engineered banana would have a PLU code of 84011.

[@SmartyPants-fd7ju]

My sister boiled corn on the cob six minutes and when cooled as soon as you bit into it it immediately turned into mush.

[@bleachsanchoblastk]

Some of these videos are just people getting ahold of fruit that was held in storage for long periods of time until they are chemically ripened. Strawberries in the winter are trash.

[@nailsofinterest]

Strawberries grown in, say, Florida in (winter strawberry capital) the winter are the best!!! Soooo yummy. But are super fresh, n full of flavor, for me, because that's where I live. 😊typically less/ shorter shipping = better tasting

[@dcscruz2970]

As someone who works showing food: 1)Many fruits, vegetables aren’t given enough time so absorb nutrients or mature well. So they are being taken before time cause “people buy it when it looks pretty”. Hence why many taste wrong. 2)Most food is being bioengineered due to the US soil being poor quality. So it resists everything and lasts longer cause many complained about their food “going bad”. (which duh! Food molds. Is why you have to eat it before due time. And why there’s processes people did back in the day with foods we find gross to not waste). 3)Many are being imported from other countries and well ain’t gonna taste okay. 4)Fruits are so sweet now not even many animals will eat it. Even if is left out for minutes

[@anthonyeaves4145]

That last bit with that one TikTok that said “we’ve traded conscience for health” and I’m just thinking “our life spans have almost doubled over the past 300 hundred years…”

[@EricAnimeFreak]

Average life expectancy from birth has gone up, this is fact. Life spans haven't changed that much when you adjust for child mortality rate and other factors, look at average life expectancy from adulthood to death, and you will find similar life spans,. In fact if you made it to adulthood in the past, as long as you didn't have an accident or suffer a bacterial infection, your life span could be expected to be around the same. We aren't really living much longer, just less of us are dying before becoming adults.

[@Shaddowbanned215]

Because of antibiotics. But the rate of diseases has massively increased. We're just no longer dying from stuff like splinters.

[@w8what575]

No it hasn’t lol

[@anthonyeaves4145]

@@w8what575 Research the average lifespan of someone in the 1700s and for today. Most people didn’t live to their 70s back then

[@AKbaby89]

I did actually get a watermelon that tasted horrible, so we threw it in our back yard for the squirrels n stuff, and it never molded, and it took like 2+ months to go away. But it never molded, it just kinda...melted? Idk how to explain it. But it was only a couple feet in a blackberry bush along the edge of my yard that I mow, so id see it every week mowing, and it was just chilling, looking totally untouched. No bugs on it, and again, no mold, despite me living along the hood canal in Washington, which is wet, to say the least😂 this was a couple months before I saw anything on tiktok

[@Charmaine41]

I'm from Newfoundland, Canada and we had the same problems here with watermelons during the summer. My mom was about to throw out the entire watermelon so I took it and cut it up to feed the crows. My mom feeds them all the time and they're never, ever picky about what they eat but they wouldn't touch that watermelon. 4 days later the watermelon chunks were still on the ground and looked exactly the same as they did when I threw them out there. My mother made me pick it all back up and throw it in the garbage. You know it's bad when even the crows won't eat it 😂

[@gabby222themoon]

@@Charmaine41 why would they eat rotten fruit

[@monalee7687]

If even insects and worms won’t touch it, the problem isn’t that the fruit is rotten. There’s something else going on

[@NachsteNachdemGaming]

Its just gone bad it isn’t being replaced by anything but animals aren’t going to eat rotten fruit

[@nikawharton7056]

​@@gabby222themoonI mean... they do eat dead things... Sorry I had to say it; it was a low hanging fruit!😂😂

[@SkinnyEatWorld95]

I'm really glad I've not had to deal with this so far😮

[@CemeteryGates007]

Btw you cannot wash peal( or whatever gates wants to call it) off. Also gmos we’re pushed on the premise to end world hunger, because they have failed to due so; farmers should no longer pay to grow food to Monsanto, due to cross winds or by rent the right to grow. It’s really messed up!

[@Planty999]

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[@AllyArtemisia]

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[@ABDresend]

monsanto doesnt even exist anymore. can't even spell peel correctly and thinks theyre a food scientist...

[@dcscruz2970]

@@ABDresendit still exists but goes by different names.

[@iWantaBTSsandwich]

"Paranoia" kept my family from myocarditis. Thank you paranoia.

[@johannacox3267]

Well wouldn’t the food say BIOENGINEERED?? Duh!! Don’t buy it if it says bioengineered!! I’ve seen that on cereal! Yes cereal! I buy NOTHING with bioengineered on it!!!

[@Adventist1997]

Corn is genetically mixed with e-coli. I wouldn't call that "safe"...

[@blaah9999]

12:48 um tell me you don’t know what muscle fibers look like without telling me…

[@cheyennemolinari1164]

MY EXACT THOUGHT

[@kierawelch2106]

Every time I buy fruit from Walmart they either taste like nothing at all, or they’re gross and bitter, so I just started buying in season from fruit stands.

[@Ozziecatsmom]

I think I’ll try that. Oh wait! It’s -25C, there aren’t any fruit stands open.😂

[@ck6962]

I always figured it was the gasses they were using to "ripen" the fruits in the warehouses. They just didn't seem the same when they started doing that!

[@silverangel83]

The bad thing is that even if these are still real food, they were being sold expired food. That is still shameful that people will know that a crop is bad and still sell it to the public. I feel bad for them that yes this is their source of income, but that's not the right answer.

[@shachar777]

So true, If bugs dont want to eat it-not good for you.

[@jessicat.x]

I need to see these products getting tested under a microscope to find out what metals and materials we're actually consuming in fruit form

[@angiebervinkle1575]

I dont buy produce at the grocery store and never ever buy it out of season i dont buy meat from a grocery store just the local butcher and my produce comes from local farmers

[@lolalalia4119]

That is a luxury few have access to

[@dietotaku]

that's cool that you have access to that, i don't know when or where my farmer's market is open and i don't know if i even have a "local butcher." not to mention how much are you paying for that? does the farmer's market sell a pound of strawberries for $2?

[@zmbdog]

Most grocery stores employ butchers too. The butcher shop has more variety but meat-wise it's more a matter of who your local grocers (and butchers) are. Being a butcher shop doesn't automatically mean they're getting a higher quality of meat. That could just as easily be going to the grocer.

[@Spooky_Platypus]

So you live in a city with no food deserts and have money. Got it

[@joywalker3758]

Our safest danger is that we may not be able to grow food the natural way again 😢

[@zupergurkan]

"meat comes from livestock raised by hardworking farmers and ranchers, not from a petri dish grown by scientists." Well Jack, transportation is done with your own two feet, not some crazy machine made in a workshop. Is that what you would've said if you lived 120 years ago?

[@Zeldalover14]

This is what happens when you separate people from where their food comes from. That being said, mass produced fruits and vegetables are bred for their ability to keep during transit / on a store shelf over their taste. The varieties you grow at home are selected for taste, but often times bruise very easily and go bad very quickly. Because of the transport of fresh produce, it's often also picked before it's ripe so that hardness of unripe fruit stays. It's like taking pasta out of water before it's cooked where the longer it stays in the water the softer it will get until it's inedible mush. So the rubbery fruit is ultimately a product of capitalism. Produce made for transport and stores but not really for taste or nutrition.

[@danthegreat7590]

Meanwhile the produce workers be like lets replace it with rubber fruit so she freaks out

[@wintersprite]

Me watching this: eating a real, juicy orange.

[@yahahshklavi3093]

BIOENGINEERING JUST MEANS BILL GATES "BUGS"

[@cinnamonsugarcourtney6073]

That's just a hollow heart watermelon, that's how they used to grow! It's just caused by poor pollination, but they're completely fine to eat, in fact they tend to be sweeter than normal watermelon because they have less flesh that gets the same amount of natural sugars.

[@frobbsy27]

So the fizzing watermelons, exploding potatoes, split watermelons are 100% explainable. The unrotting fruit (which I have also experienced and refused to feed my kids) is something totally different. PSA: POKE HOLES IN YOUR POTATOES BEFORE COOKING THEM....who tf doesn't know this? 😂😂

[@MoonPie44]

Exactly! While some stuff is explainable with reasonable explanations. Some of it is definitely not and is very suspect

[@grbenway]

@@MoonPie44 Honestly what in this video has you stumped. The natural world is gross and nothing shown here is all that unusual for people who have lived a decent life.

[@mariebaldwin9057]

You don't need to worry about them swapping lab meat for 'real' meat right now. Lab meat is expensive and 'fillers' tend to be cheap.

[@madkrakatoa]

30 years ago my dad told us this joke about a local visiting the USA for the first time, when he returned his neighbors and family wanted to know what America was like and he said " in NY the apples are HUGE! Bigger than your hand and they are red and shiny, and you smell them and smell like apple, and you bite them and they taste like apples!" Wow tell us more! And the oranges are HUGE! Bigger than your hand and they are orange and smell like oranges, and you peel them and bite them and they taste like apples....and the bananas! They are HUGE! Bigger than your hands and they are bright yellow and they smell like bananas, and you peel them and they taste like apples...' 30 years ago..

[@ChelGriffith]

I have a weird bag of apples in my fridge now.

[@LESHAWNDINGLENUTPG]

"Made in China" ahh food😭

[@evyedelman4297]

Thank you for tagging the homesteaders in the upper hand corner.🙏🏼

[@knottedtogether6782]

Apeel sprayed on food keeps the outside looking fresh while the inside is rotting. It looks good on the shelf longer. Figure out how rotting food acts then take it back. Don't throw it away. Tried to clean appeal off some jalapenos. Then let them sit on counter for 8 days. Finally rotted from wothin but outside still shiny and firm. Check out yours.

[@tracymccoy733]

Yes "selective breeding" could be classed as a type of GMO and could be harmful (look at Persian cats and some types of dogs) but GMOs are made from plants that have been genetically modified (genes themselves) to reach a desired effect and have not been existent long enough to fully evaluate their effects on the environment or people who consume them.

[@jessicasteenbergen6554]

So why don't we see this in Europe and why do we see this trend all of the sudden, besides we all know that so many chemicals they use in the States are not allowed here. There is something not right here

[@DoubleplusUngoodthinkful]

This is a big change. Fruit from Costco used to rot in a day and a half, along with the milk and bread, which would NEVER make it to their expiration dates. THAT'S when I stopped buying those things from Costco.

[@darkfae941]

People when their food isn’t ideal outside of it’s normal growing season.

[@dixierae6063]

I just bought a bag of miniature white potatoes. I bake potatoes in the microwave so thought these little mini ones would be a big time saver. It usually takes me about 8 minutes to bake a large potato. I put these ones in for 2 minutes and when I brought them out they were completely Raw. I stuck them back in for 1 minute and they exploded but we're still raw in parts, strangest thing I've ever seen. I also bought a bag of frozen mixed fruit when I took it out of the bag it was rock hard like they had Frozen at Raw boil it to at least see if I could get it to cook. No matter what I did it stayed firm and I couldn't get it to go soft. It also was flavorless and I was surprised because it was bagged in great big pieces. Normally when you buy mixed peaches and that type of fruit it's diced up fairly small and these were like a peach cut into four. A Twilight Zone moment. Good luck trying to explain to the manager of the vegetable Department what your experience was.

[@iLoveGumDrops]

The reason we are able to have certain produce year round is because most of all produce is now frozen and stored to allow to be sold at a much later date. This is irregular to the fruit and that is why in specific apples, watermelon, tomatoes, etc have different textures throughout a singular year. Other produce such as avocados seemingly are being questions while at an unripened state. 😅

[@rowanrobbins]

It is not frozen, LOL! It is kept chilled in temp. controlled coolers.

[@iLoveGumDrops]

@ ah, thank you for differentiating that!

[@kasahadragon9499]

This is what deregulation gets you. Food regulations should be there for a reason.

[@rubyhong122]

People are just posting anything and everything they can for clout. Not every item of food has suddenly gone bad, we are just getting more exposure to the few that have. Like airplane crashes.

[@elliecassar1881]

if the rubbery fruit is natural (which it likely is considering the logic of some of social media's experienced farmers i think) then theres another issue: why are stores selling rotten fruit? i have issues buying fruit myself bc all the packs of fruit in my local stores (in california at least) have gone bad and its frustrating

[@helloanna91]

Fruit is NOT the same nowadays. When I was a child, strawberries were red and sweet, and watermelon was sweet and crunchy. Fruits had flavor. I love watermelon so much but every time I buy it (in season), it is always bad. Even going by the markings on the outside of the fruit, it is always so mealy inside and rubbery. And my dogs and chickens won't touch it.

[@KirstenlyArt]

a lot of this has to do with droughts, floods, and shortages in fertilizers and equipment, as well as the sale and use of different cultivars.

[@dcscruz2970]

Watermelons and many produce aren’t allowed to grow and cut before they’re ready

[@Petuniareally]

I’ve been noticing bizarre & definitely unpalatable changes in multiple kinds of produce since 2021. Bad taste, bitterness, unripe, too ripe, wrong texture, no smell or bad smell etc. I thought it was grocery stores gouging by buying from low quality sellers; now I’m leaning to a change in growing conditions as well as a different kind of gouging-attempts to make items last longer.

[@Royal98703]

do people just not do research and jump to conclusions at the slightest bit of an error in their food??

[@X2Wolverine]

Correct

[@Amita8505]

Yes...this is the world we live in smh

[@newsystem420]

Its crazy they get away with this, when pesticides and glyphosphate are proven to be toxic- which is GMO's. Its expensive to buy organic and even major brands have had setbacks due to E.Coli. recently, drought, etc. Not everyone can have their own garden either, but it shouldn't be this bad..and humans deserve better.

[@hollyholfeld]

This is why I grow my own food in the summer and buy meat from local farmers/hutterites. In the winter I do have to buy produce from the store but have never seen anything like this! But strawberries are no good in the winter, They always look and taste like styrofoam in winter. Even when I was a kid in the 90's lol.

[@anthonydubose8100]

Yesterday is gone. So what does today hold?😢

[@EmilyKresl]

It's not just Walmart. Look at what happens to a McDonald's burger if it sits in your car for 5 years. It's still the same just wrinkled. What kind of meat, cheese and bread doesn't go bad after a few days or weeks???

[@linnymiddy]

Mcdonalds stuff is nuked with salt and other preservatives, atleast in US Unsure about here in Europe

[@Closemusic16]

how do you know this?

[@msolis648]

Thank you for covering several sides of the story and providing multiple possible explanations

[@LHarris-h8y]

GMOs are less nutritious. Its empty calories. And we have not been modifying food for a thousand years the way they are doing it today. You may be eating veggies, but they lack the vitamins veggies had even a hundred years ago.

[@katiexwright]

i know humidity/environment is a factor in mold, but sometimes i buy bread and forget about it in the cupboard and wonder why it didn’t mold 😟

[@pjc-jw5qm]

Walmart brand icecream doesn't melt!!!

[@stclairecrafts4472]

How much were you paid?