Mass medication - our daily bread

[AD345]

I'm more concerned about high levels of salt, sugar and preservatives added to bread rather than the addition of a trace mineral. What a bout iodization of salt and fluoridation of water?

Well then your worries are easily satisfied, most (not all) nationally available breads qualify for the Heart Foundation Tick for low sodium levels. Those that dont are less than 1.5% away.

Sugar is no longer added to bread (you do get it in buns and rolls)

There are no preservatives in bread.

Hope you feel better

[AD345]

But NZ does import Aussie wheat flour. ???

Always have done - when it's available. Occasionally it has been Canadian and in the last few years there were a couple of shipments from the Ukraine.

NZ cannot grow enough wheat to meet its milling needs.

[AD345]

I believe the supplement is going in flour, too, except organic flour, as the OP said in her first post. Bummer, I've been baking our family bread for decades and will definitely get a 20kg of undosed flour before they start adding crap to it.

It will be added to the Improver (main ingredient used to manufacture bread after flour, yeast and water)

[Deano]

Because there's a lot of stupid people here that might 'accidently' get pregnant and not think (ha) to take folic acid.

Check out the fat thread. We have a LOT of stupid people in NZ.

AND... the politicians say they can't say no. Rubbish. Of course they can. It's easy...

It's hard when people are soooo stupid though.

I saw a kid on the way to school eating a bag of chippies the other day - ok...just maybe it was a treat, but......

judging by the size of her arse, (I don't usually check out school girls arses ok) and her mother's arse, I'd say it was a standard breakfast item.

People are stoopid. Much easier to blame someone else (like McDondald's) or the gubbmint for their shortfallings.

[Hitcher]

NZ cannot grow enough wheat to meet its milling needs.

Not quite. New Zealand struggles to grow wheat varieties with a baking score suited to bread making.

[Mom]

Our food safety standards are very poor in NZ. Hells teeth, us little folk have to rely on the Government, and their Ministries to follow the rules to keep our food safe. We cant trust them at all, they bow to any breeze, where are the balls here?

Hitcher comments on being conflicted, I am doubly conflicted! Who would have ever have thunk I would wholeheartedly and more endorse the Greens. Watch the spin doctors now.

I hear that maybe they may reconsider the blind following of the agreement, I am not holding my breath.

[AD345]

Not quite. New Zealand struggles to grow wheat varieties with a baking score suited to bread making.

Tomato

Tomato

[jono035]

Tomato

Tomato

Not really known for their baking usefulness, tomatoes....

[Forest]

Our food safety standards are very poor in NZ.

Actually the standards are among the best in the world. They have to be to allow our export products to enter foreign markets.

Go out and travel a little. You'll soon find that the rest of the world operates to much lower standards then we do.

[peasea]

I think putting LSD in bread would be funnier, but hey, that's just me.

[Mom]

Actually the standards are among the best in the world. They have to be to allow our export products to enter foreign markets.

Go out and travel a little. You'll soon find that the rest of the world operates to much lower standards then we do.

Who says I have not travelled? Cool, so just because the rest of the world accepts poor standards, then we have to as well? I say again, I do not want drugs foisted on me, or my kids, or my grandkids to be. Who knows what the cumulative effect of this will be on future generations?

[jono035]

Actually the standards are among the best in the world. They have to be to allow our export products to enter foreign markets.

Go out and travel a little. You'll soon find that the rest of the world operates to much lower standards then we do.

Export market and domestic market goods can vary pretty dramatically though... Not to mention imported goods... Chinese canned fruit anyone? Now with extra concrete dust?

[idleidolidyll]

Yup,
why the hell should i be dosed with extra folic acid so that pregnant chicks can get some too?

talk about a blunt tool; i think i'll give up bread

[MsKABC]

These days it seems you have to pay for a very expensive (almost $1 a day) pill over the counter,

Nope - it is possible to get straight folic acid OTC at the pharmacy very cheaply (around $10 gives you enough to last the 4 months that you need to take them for, from memory). The pills you are probably thinking of are 'Elevit', and they are an absolute rip-off.

[Deano]

Who says I have not travelled? Cool, so just because the rest of the world accepts poor standards, then we have to as well? I say again, I do not want drugs foisted on me, or my kids, or my grandkids to be. Who knows what the cumulative effect of this will be on future generations?

Hopefully sterilisation if the species is to survive. (That's not a personal dig BTW)

But probably similar to all the other shit that is foisted upon us in the 21st century. Pollution etc.

And NZ has some pretty poor standards compared to the rest of the world.