A normal sized walmart with all the products containing ingredients banned in other countries removed from the shelves.

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American MREs got stuck in Norway, because the high amount of banned ingredients in Europe. Thousands of MRE meals that aren't allowed to enter, and that US soldiers couldn't use in a joint NATO winter exercise. Quite hilarious. Containere med amerikansk mat står fast – USA antyder mindre øving i Norge – NRK Norge – Oversikt over nyheter fra ulike deler av landet (use google translate)

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Hey you guys banned asbestos last year, and red dye 3 this year, you are getting there.

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Also: all the products that would get an "excess of sugar/fat/sodium/carbohydrates" in countries like Mexico or Chile is also banned. Good luck finding anything short of raw vegetables

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I'm picturing a protest stunt. A crew of about 30 people descends on a wal-mart with bright red, huge stickers reading THIS PRODUCT IS BANNED IN [COUNTRY] FOR [COMPOUND] WHICH CAUSES [DISEASE] and hits every aisle like wildfire.

Not impossible to organize, hard to contain, you might get arrested but the charges wouldn't stick. The hardest part would be the initial research.

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Oh sweet summer child. Have you been to California? Here we’ve got a law that says if something can cause cancer then there has to be a warning on the label. And it’s on everything, not literally everything but close enough. Milk can cause cancer in exceptional rare cases so it’s on dairy products. Sugar/artificial sweeteners can cause it so it’s on everything sweet. The list goes on and on, and nobody pays attention to it.

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What I read once (not sure the validity) is that the way the law is written the company needs to essentially prove that it can’t cause cancer and since it’s basically impossible to prove a negative they don’t bother and just slap the warning on it.

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GardenTop7253@reddit

Interesting concept, but that loudness isn’t very informative. What ingredient qualified? What countries have it banned? Why is it banned there? And adding back any kind of information about that would detract from the obvious emptiness and dampen the point quite significantly

And I think there would be a lot of implied “the rest of this is good” to that setup, with a lot of the same issues modern diet plans or dietary philosophies have

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IHSV1855@reddit

Exactly. All pork products and alcohol would be gone purely because of religious restrictions in some countries, for instance. All beef products for the same reason, as long as the qualifying bans can be regional rather than national.

Hell, the store might end up entirely empty just because of North Korea’s bans on western products.

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Puzzleheaded_Way9468@reddit

A lot of stuff has probably been banned by atleast one North Korea. Or even with the EU, I don't agree with them banning GMOs. Are we gonna put seedless melons in this store? If Japan banned all imports from Thailand, and a pot pie has carrots from Thailand, is that included?

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Raveyard2409@reddit

Change ingredients to additives and I think that would be very interesting. Especially chemical additives banned by places like Europe.

My American wife was horrified when she moved to the UK, she was aghast that bread and fruits go off after a few days, she said they last for weeks back home. One of those is normal for food and one isn't. There is a lot of dodgy shit in US food.

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The place would be empty other than maybe rice and potatoes more or less. North Korea has banned all kinds of shit like denim, hair dye, baby strollers and more. Pork and beef are banned in a few areas, chicken is currently being hit with temporary bans to combat bird flu, meat from wild game species is banned for sale in some countries.

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GreatScottxxxxxx@reddit

America bans Kinder eggs for public safety but sells assault rifles in their place and washes chicken in chlorine. I doubt many would worry or care what is banned around the world

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Dave_A480@reddit

The idea that other countries banning something makes that legitimate is a huge stretch....

A lot of the time it is local politics or straight up protectionism - not legitimate safety regulation based on sound science.....

Anything related to Europe and chicken is a grand example of this.... The trade dispute in question is also why there's an extra tax on European pickup trucks and SUVs in the US.....

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LinearFluid@reddit

So a Walmart with everything it normally has.

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Thneed1@reddit

No, it would be very nearly empty.

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LinearFluid@reddit

I read it wrong, you are so right after second glance

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JuventAussie@reddit

If it applied to employees and banned labour practices, I suspect not even the employees would be in the stores.

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Pink_Slyvie@reddit

I mean, bacon is a carcinogen.

Everything can bad for you, its all about not overdoing it. The problem with america, is they keep us fed and to exhausted to care.

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This sounds like a black market

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smorkoid@reddit

I don't get why you assume that something being banned in a different country makes it bad for yours.

Going to ban all alcohol because some countries ban it?

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Delicious-Badger-906@reddit

Why does something being banned in another country make it “poison?” What does that country know that the U.S. doesn’t?

What about things that are banned in the U.S. but allowed in other countries? Like E152?

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JuventAussie@reddit

So no beef because the sale of beef is banned in some areas of India?

No pork for similar reasons to beef.

Free-range chicken sale is currently banned in some areas due to concerns about bird flu.

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