Comments on Profile Post by roshambo123

Deets?

Did a quick lookup, is it the salmonella thing?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cheerios-quaker-oats-infertility-chemicals-in-cereal-ewg/

TL;DR Switch to organic.

ugh.... I just opened a big box of honey nut cheerios... haven't had them in forever too.

According to historians, the “Dancing Mania” at Aachen in 1374 was caused by ergotism, a rye fungus. Whereas venereal disease is caused by goterism. @Thad E Ginathom

Steel cut oats from the can.

For heavens sake, i just bought 2 boxes of Cheerios.

The frustrating part is they didn't disclose what brands lacked contamination, other than basically everything not organic, of which 12.5% still tested positive

Adding the study was done by a questionable organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Working_Group

EWG generally does good work. Yeah, it tends to have much more conservative thresholds than government agencies (or, of course, the chemical industry). But if you’d prefer to err on the side of caution, it’s not a bad source, especially because the number of consumer publications doing lab testing is dwindling.