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One of the claims on this Belvita packaging only appears in English (lemmy.world)
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[–] rImITywR@lemmy.world 137 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Relevant XKCD

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/free.png

[–] emmanuel_car@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago

Obligatory “there really is an XKCD for everything” comment. I am genuinely surprised by this one.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Imagine if a cereal company tried this irl, but fucked up and said, "now asbestos free". Imagine the chaos.

[–] AssholeDestroyer@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Baby powder has way less asbestos in it now than it did back in the 50's.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Baby powder is now made from 98% powdered babies and 2% teeth chunks.

[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Tbf anything and everything had asbestos back then, everyone was fcked