📢 Weird food alert: Lab-grown chicken—real meat grown from cells, not animals—is now officially part of the U.S. food system. 🧫🍗 Approved by the USDA and FDA, this “cultivated meat” is hitting select markets and restaurants in 2025. Supporters call it eco-friendly innovation; critics call it unnatural, untested, and a threat to food tradition. Whether progress or perversion, one thing’s clear: the future of food just got a lot stranger. 🍴👁️

Many everyday foods contain trace amounts of insect-derived ingredients or bug fragments. Additives like carmine (from crushed beetles) and shellac (from lac bugs) are used for coloring and glazing. Even honey, beeswax, and royal jelly come from insects. The FDA allows a certain level of insect fragments in food, as total removal is nearly impossible. On average, Americans unknowingly consume 1–2 pounds of bugs per year through common foods.

Once hailed by fashion icons like Karl Lagerfeld and Jean Paul Gaultier, aspartame has a dark past. 🕵️‍♀️ Discovered in 1965, it took nearly 20 years to hit the shelves, shadowed by scandals, seizures in lab animals, and corruption. 😳 Its breakdown products—phenylalanine, aspartic acid, and methanol—are linked to brain damage, tumors, and more. Yet, it’s still in 5,000+ products. Politics over health? You decide. ⚠️🥤

Fruit is marketed to us in nature and by the food industry. Is it really good for us or are we just succumbing to fruit and the food...