Man had eaten two bags of microwave popcorn daily for 10 years

  • SgtThunderC_nt@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Let’s not even talk about the workers though…

    “In 2004, a jury awarded 32-year-old Eric Peoples, a worker at the Gilster-Mary Lee plant in Jasper, Mo., $20 million for lung damage he sustained during the manufacturing process of buttered popcorn. At the time, 29 other workers had cases pending.”

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    1 year ago

    Fake butter flavour (Diacetyl) is harmful when breathed. Popcorn lung is no joke.

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      1 year ago

      i’ve been eating 8 bags a day for the last 12 years in my living room. it’s developed popcorn ceiling, should I sue?

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    1 year ago

    I had a popcorn kernel stuck in my throat for a week before an ENT doctor got it out (Saliva wont dissolve popcorn kernels ever apparently). She told me she knew a surgeon who believed popcorn was the worst food a person could eat because of what it does to the intestines. I asked the ENT doctor what food she thought was the worst - “Popcorn, definitely”.

    I know 7 million is a lot, but, I’ve got a feeling it still wasn’t worth it.

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      Not to mention it’s around 800 mostly empty calories a day (at least based on the calories in the popcorn I eat). For me, that’s half the calories I need in a day to stay in deficit.

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      1 year ago

      Yes it’s ridiculous that poisonous butter is allowed to be sold to consumers as food