Trader Joe’s has issued a recall this week over concerns its broccoli cheddar soup may contain insects and premade falafel may contain rocks, the grocery chain announced. The affected products have been wiped off the shelves and destroyed, and Trader Joe’s is urging customers to throw away the product or return it for a full refund. For its buggy broccoli cheddar soup, the company said “no known adverse health effects have been reported to date.”
When asked about how the contaminants crawled into their food (literally), a Trader Joe’s spokesperson told the Associated Press that “there was an issue in the manufacturing processes in the facilities.” “We pulled the product from our shelves as soon as we were made aware of the issue. Once we understood the issue we notified our customers,” the spokesperson said. While Trader Joe’s did not specify how many products have been impacted, the Food and Drug Administration reported that there are at least 10,889 affected cases for the soup. Read more.
Tucker says packaged foods which says “sustainable” is actually “you get to eat crickets, as in chirping insects. They put them into flour, cotton candies, snacks.” Dr. Marc Siegel says, “The insects are high in protein, low in fat, low in carbohydrates, and they already eat them in Africa, Asia and Mexico. It’s getting in the food, in the growing process, in the processing process. The problem is that the FDA is very lax about it. The FDA allows up to 450 insect parts in a box of spaghetti, 30 insect parts in a chocolate bar, 30 insect parts in a jar of peanut butter, in spices, in almost anything you can name there are insect parts in there.” Trucker, “Not long until it’s rats, the new white meat…”
Rocks are not treif.