Chemical Found In Cheerios, Quaker Oats May Cause Fertility Issues, Study Suggests: What To Know About Chlormequat
Chemical Found In Cheerios, Quaker Oats May Cause Fertility Issues, Study Suggests: What To Know About Chlormequat
Researchers found four in five Americans have been exposed to the “toxic” pesticide chlormequat, which is used in oat-based foods like Cheerios and Quaker Oats Old Fashioned Oats and can cause fertility problems in animals.
Around 80% of Americans have been exposed to the plant pesticide chlormequat, which causes fertility and growth issues in animals, according to a new study published Thursday...
Fantastic. I ate that almost exclusively for years because I thought it was the healthier option.
“Don’t worry baby, I brought protection”
(Opens a ziplock bag of Cheerios)
Getting crumbs in my bed is a surefire way of ending any coital activities, so... Mission achomlished?
This is the second time I've seen someone incorrectly refer to chlormequat as a pesticide. It's not a pesticide, it's a chemical that encourages plants to grow thicker stems, which in turn makes harvesting easier.
I don't say this to defend its use. I just feel that it's important to call it what it is.
Would that qualify as a fertilizer, providing something the plant needs for its stems, or some sort of hormone that encourages plant stem growth, or something else?
Chlormequat is a "plant growth regulator." It prevents the plant from creating a hormone that would otherwise cause the plant's stems to elongate and thin. Falls into the "something else" category, imo.
Edit: I think that some plant growth regulators are hormones, but not all. I should note that I'm not an expert, I just like to look chemicals up on Wikipedia (and the linked sources) and noticed that a lot of journalists were getting this wrong.
I can’t stand living in this country sometimes.
How does this shit continue to fucking happen year after year decade after decade.
Greed. It happens because of selfish greedy people who care about nothing but making themselves richer.
Interestingly enough, the US does not allow American farmers to use chlormequat on domestic food. That said, the loophole is that US food producers are allowed to import crops grown with it.
And although most US grain is grown domestically, the US gets a shitload of oats from Canada, and Canada still sprays this crap on crops. The UK is also shady with this stuff.
Now we’re getting somewhere, very interesting
It happens because consumers insist on buying and eating processed shit like this decade after decade. In what world were Cheerios considered a healthy option?
They’re supposed to be a whole grain simple cereal. They’ve also marketed it as such and doctors recommend them for simple diets (or have in the past for me, maybe that’s changed)
In what world were cheerios considered “going to give you fucking reproductive issues”
Fuck outta here with your attitude
Unprocessed wouldn't help in this case. Would need to be certified organic.
I wouldn't expect this from Quaker.
Kellogg's seems more like the one who would put infertility inducing chemicals in their food.
It’s probably most oat products in North America. The US banned this substance on domestic crops, but Canada still allows it, and Canada is the oat capital of North America.
Moreover, US residents get exposed because importing oats grown this way is still okay. It’s only banned domestically.
The Quakers nearly died out because they disapproved of even sex for procreation.
Tbh it's a real shame they have this weird hang up about the idea because they're otherwise the best kind of Christians.
Takes they've been historically based af about:
Anti-monarchists Abolitionists Public education Prison Reform Pacifism (personally don't agree but we'd certainly be in a better place if more people did)
Etc etc etc, literally, find an issue about something and they're probably on the right side of it.
(Unless their names are Hoover and Nixon)
I wish violence didn't solve everything, the world would be a much easier place to live in. But brutes only speak the language of violence.
I thought it was the Shakers who were fully celibate, not the Quakers. I’m reading through the Quakers’ wiki page now and not seeing anything about views on sex/procreation. Any suggestions where to find more about that?
I’m not trying to challenge you, I’d just like to learn more if I’ve missed something here.
From this day forward, using Cheerios as birth control will be called “busting a honey nut.”
Get that cheery O
Heart healthy and a birth control? Harvey Kellogg eat your heart out.
I wonder if it stops kids masturbating too.
Confused. Is it unhealthy to continue using the cheerios as a cock ring or not?
Get outta here with your big dick humble bragging.
Chlormequat- sounds like a MAGA approved miracle injection to me.
It looks like organic products mostly avoid this.
- 11/12 (92%) of conventional oat-based products had it
- 1/8 (12.5%) of organic oat-based products had it
(from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-024-00643-4/tables/2 )
Don't Panic, Go Organic!
Looks like Quaker Oats farmers were following the law so I really can’t blame them. Just need to get the law changed again
Cheerios has got to be the the blandest cereal in the solar system, right next to bran flakes.
Not just mice, they also tested in pigs - with various degrees of effect. The alarming thing is how pervasive it is in humans.
Sure, but mice and pigs are not humans, which is the point. They evolved to sometimes have different reactions to the same chemicals that we have reactions to. It could very well be that this pesticide does not pose a risk to humans.
And honestly, we have to have pesticides to feed a hungry world. And herbicides. Especially herbicides, as increasing CO2 in the atmosphere will cause a 'global greening' effect as well as a greenhouse effect, which will result in stronger and hardier weeds. We just can't risk massive crop failures anymore. I don't like it any more than you do, but there really isn't another solution. Especially if you want people to stop eating so much meat.
if you're still eating cereal in current year it's on you
You know that rice is a cereal, right?
Don’t be pedantic.
This is the hot take I scrolled down for.
There’s so many good, easy, healthy, cheap alternatives to cereal.
Ate oatmeal cookies last week that were made with Quaker Oats.. haven't eaten cereal in a long time.
Surprised it isn't cornflakes but I've still got to ask: what's the venn diagram between people who eat Quaker Oats and people who fuck? It's got to be in the single digits.