I just stumbled on a twitter thread about rise of obesity in the last fifty years and there are dozens of frog pfps going "seed oils".

Here in Russia people have been cooking everything with sunflower seed oil for like century and a half...

  • Wertheimer [any]
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    3 years ago

    I haven't seen the meme, but I will use this opportunity to share a fascinating article on counterfeit olive oil.

    https://archive.fo/3Fhhq

    • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      However, by early 1992 Ribatti and his associates were under investigation by the Guardia di Finanza, the Finance Ministry’s military-police force.

      lmao why does the Finance Ministry have a military-police force?

      • Wertheimer [any]
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        3 years ago

        Better yet, why does the Ministry of Health?

        “The vast majority of frauds uncovered in the food-and-beverage sector involve this product,” Colonel Leopoldo Maria De Filippi, the commander for the northern half of Italy of the N.A.S. Carabinieri, an anti-adulteration group run under the auspices of the Ministry of Health, told me.

        • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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          3 years ago

          Imagine Italians being against adultery. :anti-italian-action: