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
88 Comments
Insekticus@aussie.zone · 99 pts · 124d
That's so America lol
protist@retrofed.com · 41 pts · 124d
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
Patrikvo@lemmy.zip · -17 pts · 123d
You forgot the "un" in "unfortunate". Guess you ate the nuggets allready.
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 123d
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
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 20 pts · 123d
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.
Insekticus@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 123d
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.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 123d
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 123d
Food safety has never been one of our strong points.
Hell, people probably ate healthier in the past.
mellowistheyellow@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 123d
America has serious problems across the board, not just food.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 123d
Think it'll be this year, or '27, when the average life expectancy actually starts to drop?
ZombieChicken@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 122d
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.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 122d
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.
ZombieChicken@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 122d
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.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 122d
stonks
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 49 pts · 124d
I feel like this happens more often than it should.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 124d
It does. Because it costs less to be fined than to actually fix this shit.
Headofthebored@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 123d
First the radioactive shrimp, and now this. Fuckin' Waltons...
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 123d
And usually in the US compared to other western countries.
adarza@lemmy.ca · 43 pts · 124d
yup. several packages worth. no wonder they were closing them out at something like $2.00 a bag awhile back.... they knew
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 124d
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?
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 123d
They said they ate several bags of 'em, blame the lead poisoning.
procapra@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 123d
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.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 123d
Apparently unlike you, intellectual dishonesty is the more difficult option for me.
Darkard@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 123d
Gotta get the lead back in American children now to create the Republican voters of tomorrow
Stormy@thelemmy.club · 6 pts · 123d
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 123d
Livid?
Stormy@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 123d
PodPerson@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 123d
Definitely doesn't start with an "M"
johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 123d
The kids get enough lead at school, this is ridiculous !!
/s
mechoman444@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 123d
Scrolled way too far down to see this kind of post.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 123d
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.
wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io · 22 pts · 124d
I’ve heard they’ve been rebranded as “Chicken Leadles”
“The sky is falling, just like our prices!”
protist@retrofed.com · 9 pts · 124d
Lead is cheaper than chicken, so they're just deep-frying dinosaur-shaped cakes of lead now
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 124d
By not containing meat but instead indigestible minerals, they’re actually closer in composition to what’s left of dinosaurs.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 123d
nervous tissue, and lymph glands.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 123d
🤤. Ngl, that’s what I want in my nuggies.
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 123d
Can't have lead deficiency in the younger generation. It might lead them to actually think /s
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 123d
Trump: defunds FDA.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 123d
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!
Encephalotrocity@feddit.online · 11 pts · 123d
Seriously. How, the fuck, does LEAD get ANYWHERE NEAR food nowadays?
dan1101@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 123d
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.
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 123d
from the pipes, and metal manufacturing equipment.
lunchables recently were exposed to high lead levels, and many spices may contain lead.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 123d
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.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 123d
And that's why most of my grocery shopping is done at Aldi and Lidl!
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 123d
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.
protist@retrofed.com · 6 pts · 123d
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
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 123d
HEB is the best!
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 122d
Aldi bought Winn Dixie, and they are just rolling out the first conversions. Future Aldi's are going to resemble the classic supermarket.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 122d
That is beyond disappointing.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 123d
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.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 123d
Where? I am in the upper midwest, and prices are on paper.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 123d
Mid-East Coast.
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 11 pts · 124d
A careful examination of Walmart nuggets would probably conclude that the lead was the least harmful ingredient
mech@feddit.org · 5 pts · 123d
Lead, swallow and get out of my way!
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 123d
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.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 123d
Of course they are
Etterra@discuss.online · 4 pts · 123d
I love the extra 6 words they had to include because they're made out of assorted Grade D meats.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 122d
I probably feed my cat higher quality meat.
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 122d
Chicken lips and cloacas perhaps.
mister_flibble@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 123d
I know this is beside the point but jesus, the UI for trying to turn off cookies on that site is utter dogshit.
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 123d
We need to stop normalizing industrial food production and instead grow our own food.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 123d
Industrial food production allows roughly 1-2% of workers to grow food for the other 98%. It is basically the foundation of modern civilization. It allows almost all persons, the majority of regions, even nations to be net importers of food either temporarily due to mischance or permanently due to specialization.
Taking this away would collapse modern civilization as effectively as if you literally nuked everyone with the death toll being similar. Worse people don't react well to starving to death so the rest would probably mostly kill each other other ways.
The medieval society that emerged would produce little art or science but lots of potatoes and grains to support the much smaller total population.
ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 123d
We're not talking about "return to monke" type bullshit here. There are other ways.
From Permaculture Food Forests to aquaponic warehouse farms, we can do better than... Whatever this lead-riddled hell is.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 122d
We can do industrial food production without lead as well
ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 122d
Can we? Sure. Under Capitalism? Nope, not happening.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 119d
We absolutely can most people do... Also under capitalism!
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 123d
Industrial food production is dependent on fossil fuel and is destroying the soil. It is also encouraging large scale production which is bad because
· it monopolizes food production which enables might and outcompete small scale farming.
· is homogenizing food, making it more vulnerable to mass crop failure, and decreasing the diversity of food.
· require massive infrastructures to distribute the food.
But we cant transition over night. We have to grow forth this reality by mindfully construct lettens that normalize this state of being.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 123d
You misunderstand we can't transition AT ALL from industrialized food without killing most people and destroying civilization because it depends on 98% of people able to do something other than food. We can't grow enough food for everyone and we can't use 50-80% of our labor producing food anymore.
We could dramatically decrease usage of meat or eliminate it, ship things less so we eat mostly what is available nearby most of the time, waste less, and make methods healthier and greener. We cannot do what you want.
village604@adultswim.fan · 2 pts · 123d
Industrial food production is fine with proper regulations and oversight.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 123d
We don't, and won't, have that though. Capitalism is fine with proper guidance and oversight too. But we don't have that.
So unless we do it ourselves. we are poisoned.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 123d
You can actually buy healthy food. Chicken wads shaped like dinosaurs were probably never the best option.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 123d
You absolutely cannot buy healthy food if you are 95% of the population. I do not know what world do you think you are living in but it is not that one, it is this one and everything is poisoned. Everything. Sweet dreams.
However I do agree that chicken loaf is not the best option.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 123d
How do you solve the carbon footprint issue of everyone needing their own car?
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 123d
We dont need cars. Cars is actually part of the unwellness. Cars require overproduction and death regardless of whether we use fossil or electrical fuel. If we just look at the local cost of cars: · they are taking away space from our communities tyat could be used to gather, helping wildlife and grow food · they normalize long distance travelling, and therefore weakening local communities · they are making our societies unsafe in the sense that we cant let children play outside · they are at odds with samlife in the sense that they are endangering wildlife.
The great thing about humans is that we are very adaptable. We arent naturally dependent on cars. We dream, and we do. So if we dream of a carfree society, we can in fact do it.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 123d
So we have busses going along every rural farm road? Sure, bud.
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 123d
no buses
michaelmrose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 123d
How do things and people get between places?
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 123d
Through slow transportation. This would gradually be realized as people start to take stewardship for their local communities. As we grow our own food to an increasing degree, our need to travel long distances will be reduced more and more.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 122d
We need 98% of our people to do other things than grow food unless we want to collapse back into the 1800s
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 123d
So you just never visit family or spend time with friends? You want a mandatory hermit life for everyone?
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 123d
we need to take care of Earth
we cant go on like this
cars are killing the planet
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 123d
And what happens when someone has a heart attack? Too bad so sad?
earlstilt@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 124d
Forgot the lead, WTF is “rib meat’?
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 123d
It’s what’s leftover after you make a boneless chicken breast.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 123d
It's the Krustyburger Ribwich meat. "I don't mind the taste!"
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 124d
Its got what humans crave?!
mechoman444@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 123d
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.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 122d
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.
protist@retrofed.com · 2 pts · 122d
You're welcome to choose to eat a bullet instead, then