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    I met this dude at a house party like 15 years ago. I had no idea who he was, and had a normal conversation with him with small talk like ‘what do you do for a living,’ etc.

    Apparently he didn’t like that I didn’t know who he was, and complained to the host (a mutual friend). lol fucking clown.

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        I had to look it up when I got home the next day…

        It’s JonTron, a YouTube video game pseudo-celebrity that got into some trouble for being a piece of shit, and disappeared a few years back.

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    Why does Coca Cola own a milk company? To combat Pilk with Cilk?

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        Have successfully eliminated Nestle and cocoa related products from my life. I know its not even close to nano impact but its the least I can do 😅

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        If only that graphic could be opened, zoomed in, to actually see the various brands…

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        I mostly see this chart focused on ultra processed foods, so the base ingredients are mostly safe?

        Also as a filthy Scandinavian, Orkla Group does have quite a lot available in the ultra processed category

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          I guess it depends on your supermarkets where they get their produce from, but I wouldn’t rule out even local farms somehow being owned through subsidiaries by these corporations.

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        These big corporations can leverage those subsidies very easily too. It’s be perfect, if they didn’t have to increase profits on fixed margins

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          In 2013, I messaged Coca-Cola on Facebook and asked them if Dasani was run off water from their soda factories. They blocked me.

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    Is this how I learn Coca-Cola owns Fairlife? I never knew. Now I have to find a new brand of filtered milk.

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      Fairlife also has a history of animal abuse controversies. Their name is a complete lie and I always recommend people to other brands if they care about animal cruelty in the slightest.

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          Do you just have blank containers with “MILK” printed on them and nothing else? Cuz literally every package of milk I’ve ever had was branded in some way, even if it’s just the local dairy’s brand.

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          It’s the norm in Europe, and it makes absolute sense. Milk quality can vary wildly, so brands provide a way to identify a certain set of qualities.

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              Some farms are conventional, some are organic, some let’s their cows move more freely than others, some use more antibiotics others less, etc

              So no, milk is not just milk. Animal welfare as well as animal intake are big parts for why certain brands can take a steeper price than others

              The only places I’ve ever witnessed unbranded milk, are in very rural locations at which you pick it up at the literal farm that produced the milk and that’s a brand in itself

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          Where in the bumfuck do you live? All the milk in normal parts of the U.S. are branded.

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            My milk has the name for the store I buy it at. I think that’s probably what they’re referring to, just store brand milk versus, apparently, MilkaCola. CocaMilka.

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              Interesting. In New England at least, most of the milk/dairy products are either Hood or Garelick, which are not stores, and the only store brand I can think of is Cumberland Farms - and they started as a dairy farm that went on to open a chain of convenience stores.

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                Yeah, I’m from Jersey. And Cumberland Farms, I remember having one by us when I was a kid, but they all went away.

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    Industrialized dairy farms are highly automated and feature a ton of networked computer equipment to facilitate that.

    This isn’t some situation where a farmer rolls up to a cow with a bucket and a stool like the 1800s.

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        In what way? Except for better shelf life, lower price (where i live at least), pretty good taste, easy to make at home, and it working perfectly fine as milk substitute in all dishes i’ve tried thus far, and no animals having to be exploited for its production
        Besides those things how is it better?

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    Did you know milk can be spoiled in certain conditions? ;)

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          Capitalism. Line must always go up, and the only way to do that for most large companies is to gobble up all kinds of other companies to steal their assets and burn their liabilities. That’s why most of the grocery store choices funnel back to like a dozen multinational food companies. Like, look at this shit:

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      If Nestlé had a security breach that compromised production they wouldn’t stop the production. They’d just silently keep making compromised product and sort of fix it on the fly.

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        It’s questionable whatever they would even fix it at all and just keep producing the compromised product and lobby some politician to remove some regulations.

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          Fixed that for you

          It’s questionable whatever they would even fix it at all and just keep producing the compromised product and lobby bribe some politician to remove some regulations.

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    First question: why are you using a racist and “great replacement” conspiracy theorist in your meme

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        “Theorist”. Jon Tron is a person with shitty opinions.

        Although policing oneself to make sure that everyone in the memes one shares is squeaky clean and shares the group’s opinion on all subjects is very strange behavior when the content doesn’t also feature that opinion.

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        Jontron’s gone on the record supporting the legitimacy of white genocide, has stated that incarceration of blacks being higher in the US due to blacks being more criminal as a group, and several other batshit crazy things.

        The guy was a genuinely funny content creator, he essentially destroyed his career with his politics.