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AIBU?

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to be relieved that .....................

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jpg · 07/01/2011 22:13

i never buy anything made with liquid egg [smug emoticon]

I make my own cakes, have my own chickens and just wouldn't buy/eat any of this ready made shit that has been poisoned

disclaimer - sorry if you have eaten any of this shit

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starrychime · 07/01/2011 23:28

So, looking at the list of products affected how on earth can they be so specific - it's like sponge cake with best before date 7.1.11 etc, and poor catterpillar cakes - withdrawn from all the shops. Had one of these for DDs birthday one year and jolly nice it was too!

iheartdusty · 07/01/2011 23:31

exactly eartha.

From another of the Telegraph's articles about the dioxin contamination:

"The Food Standards Agency explained that there was no risk at all to human health. The contaminated eggs had been mixed with normal eggs before being processed, diluting the effect of the dioxins. And the eggs themselves only made up a small proportion of the processed foods that ended up on supermarkets shelves.

Dioxins are chemicals formed by industrial processes and waste burning. They have been shown to contribute to higher cancer rates and affect pregnant women, but need to be consumed in large quantities over a sustained period of time to have an effect."

I have very little time indeed for the FSA, but that just about sums up the position with dioxins, as I understand it.

the whole thing is a non-story, and only illustrates yet again how large-scale food production is just another global industrial process.

tethersend · 07/01/2011 23:31

It was indeed an implied cunt, reinitin.

They are the worst, of course. Evil egg substitute eating bastards. Yes, you, grandma. People like you make me sick. Cunts.

reinitindear · 07/01/2011 23:36

Sorry can't stop smiling at the thought f an implied cunt even though I said it.

reinitindear · 07/01/2011 23:39

but need to be consumed in large quantities over a sustained period of time to have an effect."

Think that says it all really.
Although I do keep all children at my dds parties for 134 days and force feed them quiche

ArcticLemming · 07/01/2011 23:39

So you never occasionally eat out in somewhere where the full ingredients of all products are not on display?
Never eat at a friend's house?
I do, but then I have a life.

goodasgold · 07/01/2011 23:43

I think I've got an implied cunt.

Sending children to a party with their own food if they do not have dietary restrictions on religious or medical grounds seems a bit uptight. How old are they?

reinitindear · 07/01/2011 23:49

goodasgold I think I may have coined a medical phrase and your view on party food is the same as mine after the op claimed not to be extremist?(bar medical and religious and so forth)

ArcticLemming · 07/01/2011 23:53

Have you not heard of mental health?

reinitindear · 07/01/2011 23:59

ArcticLemming
They are probably 17 and 21 goodasgold

reinitindear · 08/01/2011 00:11

ArcticLemming
They are probably 17 and 21 goodasgold

TimeForACHEEKYWine · 08/01/2011 00:43

I make my own cakes and buns, dont eat quiche.

and i sometimes get my eggs from my aunties neighbour who have their own chickens.

monkeyslut · 08/01/2011 03:26

I am not in the UK [super smug emoticon]

Oh and (made from liquid egg)

BaroqueAroundTheClock · 08/01/2011 03:58

\link{http://www.food.gov.uk/news/newsarchive/2009/feb/dioxinfoundinmilk\well it's not the first such scare we've had} - and I'd hardly call milk a junk food would you

And those of you who are smug for getting your eggs fresh from friends/family/neighbours - how do you know that those chickens haven't been fed on food that is contaminated with dioxins

\link{http://www.food.gov.uk/multimedia/faq/36454\and according to the FSA it is impossible avoid foods that contain some}

And OMG \link{http://www.cqs.com/edioxin.htm\at the "advice" you can find online if you're prone to paranoia}

I think you'll find that most of the war generation had powereder egg (and such like) and survived just fine.

ididnamechangeforthis · 08/01/2011 20:04

OP. Clap, clap, clap (I'm sitting here slowly clapping my hands at your post)

Well done, you've come across as a shining beacon of smugness. I bet you rate yourself as a 10/10 on the parenting scale.

I'm at your original post and your smugness.

We don't buy convenience foods and I cook most things from scratch, however, shock horror, I bought my DD a caterpillar cake from Tescos (the main flag flyer of all what is wrong with western consumerism, yes I'm aware) in September this year. And we all ate it. And I'm pregnant too.

Now I was researching the effects of dioxin on the internet and was hoping there'd be some calming, reassuring words from other mums on MN. Instead, I came here and found your ridiculously stupid post. Thanks, you've made a heavily pregnant woman, who tries within her budget to feed her family the best she possibly can, but can't afford all organic food, and ensure her family eats plenty of fruit and veg, and even have one of those hippy food group charts on their wall to prove it, uses lentils in lots of food, bakes MOST of her own cakes and uses natural remedies, herbs and all else, feel totally crap. Good on you.

I hope when you get to food heaven, and we've all died and are burning in food hell that you have a tiny bit of empathy for us all, you shining example of motherhood.

Any other mnetters out there care to make me feel better - I'm feeling awful that I could have put my child at risk. Although, I don't think even if you grew your own veg, kept your own chickens, weaved your own lentils, you'd be 100% safe because pollution is all around us? Am I right?

TheMeow · 08/01/2011 20:12

Well according to that list I'll be ok...I only shop at Asda :o

Ray81 · 08/01/2011 20:25

ididnamechangeforthis - I dont think you should panic, although i know that must be very hard to do when it is your unborn baby at risk, but it has been made clear that you have to consume a high dose over a long period of time for them to have an effect at all.

Oh and OP GET OVER YOURSELF, as much as you like to think you are you ARE NOT the perfect mother, infact i would bet your kids will blame you when they are bullied for having to take their own food to parties.

I would much rather my DDs eat the occasional party food/cake and be HAPPY, somehow i think that makes me a better mother.

mumofloads · 08/01/2011 20:35

Can I be smug because I byt my ready made shite from Asda and none of their products were on the list.

mumofloads · 08/01/2011 20:35

Buy even

mumofloads · 08/01/2011 20:36

Oh and op I actually feel rather sorry for your children.

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jpg · 08/01/2011 21:02

why am I being unreasonable to be relieved that I haven't bought any of that shit?

I am sorry if you have but it doesn't change the fact that I haven't

I am not claiming to be the perfect mother, just that for once I do appear to have done something right for my kids

mumofloads thanks for your concern but my kids don't want/need your sympathy - they enjoy their lives most of the time

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TheMeow · 08/01/2011 21:13

YABU because you're being a smug, nasty cowbag about it.

TheMeow · 08/01/2011 21:15

So you did the right thing for your kids, yay you. Why do you have to come here and make all the people who have bought this food and may very well be shitting themselves about it feel even worse than they do?

ididnamechangeforthis · 08/01/2011 21:25

OP I think it's just that your original post makes you sound slightly judgemental and it makes us others feel crap.

It's not unreasonable to be relieved that you didn't feed your kids certain foods, but it's the way in which you posted about which is unreasonable - especially if you think it's not going to make others upset.

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jpg · 08/01/2011 21:27

I do love the way that aibu just turns into a slanging match, you may have noticed that I have not verbally attacked any of the other posters, I have been however oh well, onwards and upwards

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