Around 80% of Americans have been exposed to the plant pesticide chlormequat, which causes fertility and growth issues in animals, according to a new study published Thursday…
This is the second time I’ve seen someone incorrectly refer to chlormequat as a pesticide. It’s not a pesticide, it’s a chemical that encourages plants to grow thicker stems, which in turn makes harvesting easier.
I don’t say this to defend its use. I just feel that it’s important to call it what it is.
Would that qualify as a fertilizer, providing something the plant needs for its stems, or some sort of hormone that encourages plant stem growth, or something else?
Chlormequat is a “plant growth regulator.” It prevents the plant from creating a hormone that would otherwise cause the plant’s stems to elongate and thin. Falls into the “something else” category, imo.
Edit: I think that some plant growth regulators are hormones, but not all. I should note that I’m not an expert, I just like to look chemicals up on Wikipedia (and the linked sources) and noticed that a lot of journalists were getting this wrong.
Heart healthy and a birth control? Harvey Kellogg eat your heart out.
I wonder if it stops kids masturbating too.
“Don’t worry baby, I brought protection”
(Opens a ziplock bag of Cheerios)
Getting crumbs in my bed is a surefire way of ending any coital activities, so… Mission achomlished?
Referring to it as “coital activities” is also a good way to shut things down.
Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey.
Honey, if crumbs are your hard limit, referring to it as “coital activities” is entirely appropriate and I hope you meet the Mormon of your dreams.
Fantastic. I ate that almost exclusively for years because I thought it was the healthier option.
You’ll be fine. This is one of the regular studies that doesn’t use humans, but rather creatures that evolved similar (but not the same) systems as humans, that the media picks up to regularly scare people.
Cheerios are turning the frogs gay though.
That’s why they all look so fabulous.
From this day forward, using Cheerios as birth control will be called “busting a honey nut.”
I wouldn’t expect this from Quaker.
Kellogg’s seems more like the one who would put infertility inducing chemicals in their food.
The Quakers nearly died out because they disapproved of even sex for procreation.
Tbh it’s a real shame they have this weird hang up about the idea because they’re otherwise the best kind of Christians.
Takes they’ve been historically based af about:
Anti-monarchists Abolitionists Public education Prison Reform Pacifism (personally don’t agree but we’d certainly be in a better place if more people did)
Etc etc etc, literally, find an issue about something and they’re probably on the right side of it.
(Unless their names are Hoover and Nixon)
I wish violence didn’t solve everything, the world would be a much easier place to live in. But brutes only speak the language of violence.
I thought it was the Shakers who were fully celibate, not the Quakers. I’m reading through the Quakers’ wiki page now and not seeing anything about views on sex/procreation. Any suggestions where to find more about that?
I’m not trying to challenge you, I’d just like to learn more if I’ve missed something here.
Shakers went full celibacy, Quakers have loosened views over time, but traditional marriages were noted to often include long periods of abstinence, and marriages were (supposed) to be more about companionship and friendship than romance and sexuality.
A professor of mine once noted the long periods of abstinence might simply have been a result of women with their notably greater autonomy having more choice in the matter compared to the standards of their times than any particularly repressive view on sexuality (within the bounds of marriage) but whatever the case, Quakers just didn’t have as many kids as other sects.
It’s weird since the Bible straight up tells you to fuck to make babies.
Maybe less weird once you remember it also talks up everything else they were against, like slavery and heirarchies. They seem, on the whole, to value the words of Christ as depicted by the Bible much more than the ramblings of people claiming to be Peter or the random rules of desert tribesmen.
It’s probably most oat products in North America. The US banned this substance on domestic crops, but Canada still allows it, and Canada is the oat capital of North America.
Moreover, US residents get exposed because importing oats grown this way is still okay. It’s only banned domestically.
Chlormequat- sounds like a MAGA approved miracle injection to me.
Confused. Is it unhealthy to continue using the cheerios as a cock ring or not?
Get outta here with your big dick humble bragging.
I can’t stand living in this country sometimes.
How does this shit continue to fucking happen year after year decade after decade.
Interestingly enough, the US does not allow American farmers to use chlormequat on domestic food. That said, the loophole is that US food producers are allowed to import crops grown with it.
And although most US grain is grown domestically, the US gets a shitload of oats from Canada, and Canada still sprays this crap on crops. The UK is also shady with this stuff.
It happens because consumers insist on buying and eating processed shit like this decade after decade. In what world were Cheerios considered a healthy option?
They’re supposed to be a whole grain simple cereal. They’ve also marketed it as such and doctors recommend them for simple diets (or have in the past for me, maybe that’s changed)
In what world were cheerios considered “going to give you fucking reproductive issues”
Fuck outta here with your attitude
I guess it brings into question what is true and what is just blatantly made-up. Cheerios being a healthy alternative was only true because the box said so, because the commercials said so, because the “doctors” supposedly said so. When in reality, eating eggs or some kind of lean protein, greens and a piece of whole wheat toast would be a substantially healthier breakfast.
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It looks like organic products mostly avoid this.
- 11/12 (92%) of conventional oat-based products had it
- 1/8 (12.5%) of organic oat-based products had it
(from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-024-00643-4/tables/2 )
Of course, they just use more of different pesticides.
Are you saying that organic oat-based products use more pesticides than conventional oat-based products? Or are you talking about organic products in general? In either case, I’d be interested in learning more if you have any good sources.
In general, organic foods don’t contain less pesticide residue.
For the layman:
For the scientific reader:
Surprised it isn’t cornflakes but I’ve still got to ask: what’s the venn diagram between people who eat Quaker Oats and people who fuck? It’s got to be in the single digits.
I’m curious what it is that you eat which influences what makes you fuckable.
Also, on which date do you tell someone that you eat Quaker Oats as a warning?
Lemmy has told me the answer to your first question is ass.
if you’re still eating cereal in current year it’s on you
Ate oatmeal cookies last week that were made with Quaker Oats… haven’t eaten cereal in a long time.
You know that rice is a cereal, right?
