EminenceFNI

NI. Interested in policing, defence and international affairs. Views are my own. Freedom of speech.

[Alan @A1an_M]

Quality food costs more. A fact of life, right?

Better, more expensive, ingredients, prepared more expertly, by higher skilled, higher paid people, packaged more carefully and nicely and perhaps transported a long distance.

This Crosta Mollica Italian pizza is on offer at £5 in Morrisons now. The Morrisons own brand one is half the price, at 2 for £5.

While we expect to pay more for better quality, in a modern Western country we should have a reasonable expectation of a minimum level of safety, even in cheap products.

The Italian made pizza does not contain folic acid (or any other additives). The British made Morrisons one, like all goods made in Britain with non wholemeal flour, does now contain folic acid.

How much?

We don't know for sure because the lebel doesn't tell us. But we can do an estimate based on the details of the UK legislation. From next month, by law, non-wholemeal wheat flour must be fortified with 250 µg (0.25 mg) folic acid per 100 g of flour

If we do some sums (included in the next post to keep things simple here) a reasonable estimate for the amount of folic acid in this pizza is 300 micrograms.

"So what?", you may say. Folic acid is folate which ia a vitamin and it's good for us!

NO!
Folic acid is a synthetic molecule which is different from the natural folate (vutamin B9) found in many foods, and behaves differently in the body.

"So what?" you may still say. 300 micrograms is a tiny amount. It's safe!

Also NO!

Firstly, lots of people will eat a lot more flour in one day besides one pizza, so their daily total will often be far more than 400 micrograms. White flour is in all sorts of foods, often in very unexpected places. And in many existing vitamin supplements.

And, more importantly, some years ago a recommendation was made to the UK Chief Medical Officer that people aged over 50 should not consume more than 200 micrograms per day in folic acid supplementation, because of research showing an increased risk of colon cancer.

And yet, the government is now mandating the addition of this chemical to all non-wholemeal flour, meaning it is in countless everyday foods like pizza, consumed by millions.

And this is all before we get into the fact that the NHS recommends that people with cancer or a heart stent avoid folic acid supplementation entirely.

What the hell is going on here?

Hey, Food Standards Agency @foodgov : Your website says that you are "responsible for food safety and food hygiene in England, Wales and Northern Ireland"

Are you asleep?

"Non Per Tutti" says the Crosta Mollica packaging. Not For Everyone.

£5 pizzas may not be for everyone. But everyone should have a reasonable expectation that food on sale in British shops won't make them sick.

Don't you think?

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[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

More and more Salvadoran soldiers are now patrolling the streets in Haiti.

Bukele’s troops have the Haitian gangs in retreat.

Via @infospartagesos

[GB News @GBNEWS]

Man killed after attack at centre housing migrants in Ireland as 'critical incident' declared

https://t.co/RV930yHrFo

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

Stabbing at an asylum center in Kerry, Ireland.

1 killed, 1 seriously wounded and 1 lightly wounded (perpetrator). All 3 are Somali men.

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says Muslims have genocıded Christians out of the Middle East.

“What happened to the Christians? There were millions and millions of Christians. Those were all Christian countries. Egypt was a Christian country. Libya was a Christian country. Algeria was a Christian country. Iraq was a Christian country. Lebanon was a Christian country in 1948.”

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Why should young British men fight for a country that does not fight for them? @GBNEWS

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

More than 60 Christians killed in Ethiopia 'massacre', church official says https://t.co/lHnoLQ4fow

[The English Crusader @andrewc44104127]

A full-size soldier, knitted together as a touching tribute ahead of Remembrance Day.

Designed by the very talented Peggy Moore.

RESPECT X

[GB News @GBNEWS]

EXCLUSIVE: France and Germany offer to supply Argentina submarines amid Falklands threat as No10 seeks EU reset. https://t.co/8FlHsKMaeE

[Liz Truss @trussliz]

Too many on the Right are naive about the nature of the left.

The Left is being dragged towards Islamo-communism.

They are a threat to our country.

[Emma Trimble @Emma_A_Webb]

If it were not for social media, we would have no idea what is going on in France. The BBC are still claiming it is ‘mostly peaceful’ …

[Kim Willsher @kimwillsher1]

Welcome to Paris.

[EminenceFNI @EminenceNI]

@Anchovy_Pizza Give an inch take a mile. Will get worse over generations. Expecting welfare as a human right. These last few years in the anomaly in human society. We are blessed with a lot yet some people will want more.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Aww, look at all these poor students who just want better conditions for their education so they can become valued members of French society

Yeah... right

Writer: Ian

[Alex @alex750808]

Je suis tellement triste.

Ce magasin c'est Sat Elite, un magasin de Jeux Vidéos indépendant situé boulevard Voltaire.

J'ai vécu 15 ans là bas, je passait très régulièrement, après l'école ou le collège, dans cette boutique pour parler avec les gérants ou admirer avec mes potes tous les items qu'ils avaient, qui allaient de l'original Banjo kazooie sur N64 aux editions spéciales japonaises de la switch en passant par les gamecubes et wii d'occasion, à des prix bien moins démesuré que ce qu'on veut nous faire croire.

Voir que ce magasin à été pillé me rend extrêmement triste car ça signe très probablement sa fermeture. Si vous connaissez un peu le boulevard Voltaire, vous savez que c'est loin d'être la seule boutique de jv qu'il y a pu avoir dans cette rue et c'est malheureusement une des seules qui reste, car elles ne parviennent plus à rester attractives face aux géants de l'e-commerce ou les grandes surfaces.

L'énorme majorité de ces boutiques étaient/sont tenues par des personnes avant tout passionnés car croyez moi bien que le profit facile ne se situe pas dans ce genre de business (regardez les nombreuses fermetures de Micromania pour le comprendre).

Il suffit de voir les avis google pour savoir que c'était une boutique appréciée, tenu par des passionnés, pour des passionnés et non des arnaqueurs ou des voleurs.

Ayant perdu des années de stock d'items rares, anciens et d'occasion, qui faisaient la particularité de cette boutique, je pense malheureusement que c'est la fin de Sat Elite (en tout cas tel que je l'ai connue), et je suis abattu à l'idée de savoir que la prochaine fois que je passerai à République, je ne pourrai surement plus rendre visite à cette boutique qui est une belle partie de mon enfance.

[EminenceFNI @EminenceNI]

Protesting due to the “cost of living.”

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Owner of tiny video game shop tries to protect his livelihood in France. The rioters surround him, throw rocks at him, then laugh and jeer as they attack him from behind.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Owner of tiny video game shop tries to protect his livelihood in France. The rioters surround him, throw rocks at him, then laugh and jeer as they attack him from behind.

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

The mask has slipped - the EU wants us back because they ‘need more money’.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEWS: El Salvador's homicide rate this year has dropped to 0.96 per 100,000

This is lower than the UK homicide rate of 1.1 per 100,000

Further proof that locking up your most dangerous criminals forever makes life better for everybody else

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Every time we put petrol into
our cars at a fuel station, the government are fleecing us. And it’s not just the fuel duty and VAT at the petrol pump price.

£70 of petrol at 197.9p a litre buys just 35.37 litres - a partial fill for many cars. Of that £70, £18.73 is fuel duty and £11.67 is VAT. That is £30.40, or 43%, taken by the government before the engine starts.

That £70 itself was already taxed. To have £70 left after 20% income tax and 8% National Insurance, you first earned roughly £97.22. Another £27.22 was taken at source. On this single fill alone, nearly 60% of the money you worked for has already gone to the government.

It does not stop there.

Most drivers also pay Vehicle Excise Duty of around £200 a year simply for the right to use the road. On top of that, the average comprehensive car insurance premium is roughly £650, of which 12% Insurance Premium Tax - about £78 - goes straight to the government. Add those annual charges and the government extraction of our money continues to escalate with endless stealth taxes.

You earn the money. It is taxed. You spend what remains on fuel. It is taxed again. Then you pay again every year just to keep the car legal and insured…which is taxed.

For millions who need a vehicle to reach work, drive children to school or live ordinary lives, this is no longer the cost of petrol or the cost of motoring. It is a stacked system of extortionate tax charges that repeatedly takes from the same earnings. Motorists are not merely paying for fuel. They are being systematically fleeced at every stage by the government.

The cost of living crisis is also a cost of excessive government taxation crisis. So @andyburnham - if you really want to help cash strapped motorists during the cost of living crisis, drastically cut fuel duty and VAT on petrol and diesel rather than just giving advice to use google maps to find the cheapest local fuel station.