A new bill proposed in the California legislature would ban popular candies such as Skittles and Nerds, as well as other processed food items that contain chemicals linked to health problems such as an increased risk of cancer and behavioral issues in children.
All five chemicals have already been banned in the European Union due to studies that have linked them to dangers to people's health, including an increased risk of cancer, behavioral issues in children, harm to the reproductive system and damage to the immune system. "Why are these toxic chemicals in our food?" said Susan Little, a senior advocate for the nonprofit Environmental Working Group. "We know they are harmful and that children are likely eating more of these chemicals than adults. It makes no sense that the same products food manufacturers sell in California are sold in the EU but without these toxic chemicals. We thank Assemblymember Gabriel's efforts to remove these toxic additives from California's food supply.
And it begins.. the government just wants to control what we eat.. WAKE UP! WAKE UP!!
Can they also ban all prop 65 products that cause cancer or all reproductive harm 🤔
Shouldn't they be more worried about other things like drugs, homelessness or their ever increasing crime rates!
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Damn! And I just purchased 3 share-size packs…not to share, but to devour. The Smoothie flavor, the Dark Side, & Wildberry.
Fuuuuuuu… 20+ years eating these.. can’t stop now.
It’s about damn time
Took this long!!
You’d hope the state would ban convicted felons from working with children in high schools! But not at Santa Ana College and Santa Ana Unified School District
yes ban them all pls. ik it tastes objectively good but we shouldn’t be eating that shit anyway
This is hypocritical because cannabis has the most ?
this is stupid, first tobacco and now candies, California is really or becoming a joke. instead of address and combat real issues that California is facing like poverty, homelessness, crime and housing shortages, but California lawmakers are going after candies and tobacco. smh
Vote out everyone that passes this bill.
California should ban Democrats. They’re MUCH worse for your health.
Another bored Representative sitting at their desk😂
I thought the US_FDA banned red dye 3 33 years ago? Oh it just causes Thyroid Cancer!
How about instead of banning them entirely they just find an alternative less dangerous chemical to use in them? I fail to see how medical pot, smoking, and vaping is legal and candy should be banned.
'TARDED LEFT WINGERS!!! So they accept thousands and thousands of pounds of toxic, unrecyclable EV battery slag contaminating dumps that DEFINITELY KILLS, but wasting time getting to ban candy!?!? Might as well kill Halloween and 'save lives left wing style'! Waste of Time!!
Can't get Skittles, but hormone blockers are cool.
Good ban Skittles it’s the ingredients red dye
So more Nazi rules in this nightmare state. Time for Sac to fuck off.
I’m ok with that. Ban all the candy, and let small local sweet shops sweep in and start business 👍🏼
And we have shampoo, cosmetics, and household items that have carcinogens and endocrine disruptors. Stop the selective outrage.
Ban skittles but guns are ok? Got it.
Lame. The toxic ingredients should be banned
So I can do meth fentanyl heroine pills and 💩 in the street but I’m not allowed a skittle. California
Great ploy yo get lobbyist to give you money to pull a bill. Also we do need to find a solution for the amount of synthetic chemicals in our food.
California is nuts
My body my choice stops at food I guess.
They should be banned period. Not just not in California.
That's it California is now my least favorite state
Bullshit laws like this are why people are moving to Florida.
Good. Charge $15 a bag
Democrats always crush US Industry... Flee Business Flee! Take the jobs with you!
CA is becoming the capital ban state of the nation, democracy for dems is now all about taking our rights to choose away…
Just another reason to get the hell out of California.
California sure does love to ban things. Very communist of them.
Free needles and Fentanyl but no Skittles ...HMMM WTF ARE WE DOING HERE
So, even though the Fed. Gov't has ok'd the use of these ingredients for food, we should not trust the Fed Gov't & that is why Calif. seeks to ban these ingredients? So should I never trust the Fed Gov't or only when Dems say not to trust the Fed Gov't?
Good give kids a chance to have white teeth 😆
'Here's your recreational marijuana!' 'Thanks!' 'Your munchies are banned tho.' haha
Now do seed oils .
Can't imagine mres without skittles. One less thing to ruin a marines/soldiers day.
Well, in all fairness, considering they they had a chance to get rid of Newsom and didn't maybe Californians do not have the intellect to do what's best for them. Eating no longer a right in California. You elected these bozos so good luck with that....
Does this mean CA is a homophobic state
Do Newsom next 👍
Good thing they're focused on the potholes that have completely ravaged all the roads. Our fucking streets looke like F Murray Abraham's cheeks 😡
What has this fucking world come too I bet people would just buy them of Amazon and have them delivered to their homes so they can have skittles
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Wait, alcohol and cigarettes aren't banned, but skittles could be banned? California is f***ing crazy.
Is this what we are paying our politicians to do? Propose laws to ban candy Don't they have more important things to do? CA residents need to wake up and make better choices when we vote.
I think that bootlegging Skittles and Nerds will become more profitable than illicit drugs.
I guess the state legislature didn’t learn anything from Prohibition.
Good
Or you could let people decide for themselves what they want to put in their body. 🙄
Ban Soda!
Well if the stores don’t sell skittles. We can always buy skittles online. Try to ban that. Ugh 😑 anything else.
Stop fear mongering for your news porn. Industry would simply adopt safer ingredients like they already do for other markets
Priorities, please.
I’m okay with that. Stop selling us poison
These things are probably garbage to eat, yes. But it is not the government’s job to tell people what choices to make. Rather than ban skittles, focus on housing because the state has tens of thousands of homeless, focus on crime, focus on education.
all these years gtfoh
With the amount of skittles I’ve eaten over my lifetime I should have been dead many years ago.
Smoke and mirrors, people. No coal tars in your food, but lipid nanoparticles, smart dust and graphene oxide are ok
Nanny state strikes again
I thought California people liked tasting the Rainbow ? 🌈 🤣🏳️🌈
Processed foods? So like 99 percent of stuff at the market ? I guess they’ll be going out of business too
They feed skittles to cows. Look it up
Just don't come after my peanut M&Ms.
But we can smoke cigarettes and drink booze. Sure makes tons of sense. Pretty obvious the candy companies haven’t been donating enough $ to politicians.
Sorry... is it the government's job to make sure I eat healthy?
not really candy band its a more a ingredient band. all they have to do is change their recipe to match what they sell in other countries chemicals red dye no. 3, titanium dioxide, potassium bromate, brominated vegetable oil and propyl paraben.
Cally telling you how to live. Good luck
As a lifelong Skittles lover, I am absolutely disheartened to learn that shellac-coated sugar pellets laden with food dye are unhealthy. 😔
I can live without it.
Lol, that's nothing compared to the oils used in cooking and food.
This is a fantastic and overdue movement in the right direction! Let’s see it pass! 🥹💗
Took long enough. This candy has been banned in other countries as well. USA just took too long to get rid of it.
Yeah they’d rather feed us cancer in other forms. Less fun looking forms. And then when we get cancer from those things make sure we pay thousands for a cancer fighting treatment that kills us even faster.
Why is California banning candy WTH
MalloryGates14 Oh did any bother to ask Mr. Beast Mode Marshawn Lynch MoneyLynch
Skittles can you just remove the bad crap from the candy or you going say goodbye to CA profits?
If you’re gonna can one then ban em all
GOOD!
CA and the stupid bills they come up with 😆 so fast food remains open is healthy? I just had Sour Skittles today and it was 🔥
What next … ban water too ?! Cause cancer 😑
Just more stuff for people to steal. 🙄
Is this satire? The same media that promotes synthetic, engineered foods. 🤔
Love the democrats.
Dems will replace it with bugs
some of yall need to open ur eyes this isnt made up skittles and alot of other food are already banned in europe and have been for quite awhile due to the chemicals in these foods we shouldnt be consuming
Candies nasty as hell anyways
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other things happening and they worrying about candy smdh
Cool
Or we’ll just get the one already marketed in Europe. The formula without the 5 chemicals already banned in EU sounds like a good idea
Seriously folks check out the European versions of the same candies and you'll see that Americans are being systematically poisoned.
Come and take them….
Just one more thing people will have to cross the border to purchase!
That’s gonna be one helluva huge black market that the state won’t get any taxes on. Great for criminals though… Strange how California likes to make it easy for criminals to thrive.
Perfect
Let’s probe in to goldfish crackers too Those fish are gruesome
Yall better taste the 🌈 while you can.
Skittles please advise
And here I thought our governor describes California as a true freedom state. It's only free if our nannies in Sacramento approve it.
The govt is linked to health problems
No more gas cars, no more gas stove or gas furnaces and now candy. What else is coming to California and the state wonders why ppl are leaving this state.
More bullshit from the nanny state!! No wonder why people are leaving in droves!! Stupid laws like this!!
Is human poop on the street deemed safer?
Good
Yes please! Let’s stop poisoning people, especially children 🙏
Also, california: you will still be able to do drugs and shit on the sidewalk in public.
Is there no place that the government inject themselves into our lives? When will it be enough?
Wtf.
Zero chance that happens
Ridiculous
Good 👍
They're worried about Skittles while letting Covid rip through the population, killing hundreds. 🙄
Is this a secret plan by the anti-LGBTQ factions to stop people from . . . 'tasting the rainbow'?🤭🙃
Why don’t they remove the chemical?
Glad to see lawmakers having their priorities straight
But guns & crime?
I’ve been eating skittles my entire life, why stop now!
So my health problem is due to eating too many skittles 20 years ago... Lawsuit...
Other processed foods? Sounds like folks will starve.
It’s time to leave this state! They come up with some stupid a&$ stuff!
I'll get them from my sidewalk vendors! Eskeedos! Eskeedos ❣️❣️
That's fine. We need more Ma and Pop style businesses who care about their customers
coocoolou What did i just say about the apocalypse? 😂
BYOC if ya come thru. REGALIA_SWAG
But McDonald’s is ok? 😆
No
Sucks to suck
Leave the skittles alone 😡
California gonna California.
they’re banned in most european countries. there’s a reason for that.
Lol priorities....
But I thought California people liked tasting the rainbow Lol
Chemicals that are in candy, artificial sweeteners are not permitted in Switzerland , Canada and third world countries . I don’t need these man-made foods/candy . Eat plant-based foods, fruits, and vegetables.
The only reason the ban, no tax revenue from candy. Cigarettes for decades have been linked to cancer and death and still in CA!! Dems want money that’s what drives their lies
I’ll take some skittles please! Nope they are banned. Cool how a pack of Marlboro Lights. Here ya go!
We have labels put down will cause cancer, and let people decide just like cigarettes.
But fentanyl is legal…
Hey fix the potholes first..
Nice. But once again, California does nothing tangible to help the homeless or other people throughout the state.
Nothing better to do......crime?
The freedom state!
Only decades late 🙄 Newsom & California, always on top of it.
I kinda agree with this force food makers to stop using these crap additives in our food
State of real freedoms according to our governor.
good riddance
This shouldn't be a state issue, perhaps a federal issue due to the chemical additives but not a state one.
I survived the skittle onslaught
Keep voting dem and you’ll be eating bugs in no time
Add covid vaccines, deal.
…instead of banning the products, take it to the manufacturer for change…we can’t win in this frickin state!!!
We shouldn’t be ingesting that crap anyway
That's a bridge too far for even a liberal like me. I don't even eat or like Skittles. This is government overreach. Guns? OK. Candy? GTFO
I can handle ten feet of snow. I can handle gridlock on the 405. I can handle lines at in and out that stretch around the block BUT DONT TAKE MY DAMN SKITTLES FROM ME