Good luck with that, after the dems confiscate every gun in America.
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My mom’s friend mentioned something to my mom about insect protein (surreptitiously?) added to peanut butter. Mom asked me if that was true i said only the natural amount of bugs in peanuts from what i hear. Folks are conflating a bunch of stuff. Facebook like normal.
Props to your mom for seeking a “second opinion”
My in laws are ridiculous. Like they will ask questions, but then ignore answers. They were taking ivermectin, and I told them I’d read about ~10 studies and the evidence wasn’t compelling at all. It was still pretty fresh in my brain so I was pulling out facts and figures, they listened for ten minutes. And then my FIL said ‘yeah, but I heard on Facebook…’ and that was that.
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Words hard. Memes easy.
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She knows the only rants worth listening to are mine 
Seriously though, i am glad she still applies critical thinking and thinks about reliabilty of sources when forming her ideas. I hope if she lives long enough for her mental acuity to decline singnificantly she can go into a happy senescence as opposed to a constant state of worry.
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I just got a sponsored ad to “Discreetly meet other professionals in the lifestyle.” and it has three pineapples on it!! Does it mean what I think it means??? 
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You do not want to lose this deal, imo.
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The algorithm decided i wanted this content months ago and somehow i have proven them right. I click on videos for “Nate the Hoof Guy” who treats and maintains dairy cows hooves helping them stay healthy.
My MIL has been on a Facebook tear lately about ingredients. Just a few of a dozen posts in the past couple of days.
Also, she drinks 2 bottles of wine and smokes a pack of cigarettes per day.
lol
TIL
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I do buy Daisy sour cream for that reason. I get The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense Of Food mixed up sometimes (same author) but basically you’re never wrong to go for the item with a short list of ingredients that’s all stuff you’ve heard of and have a vague understanding of what it is. (ie “cultured cream” yes, “guar gum” no)
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Breyers used to run a commercial featuring kids roughly 7 or 8 years old I’m guessing. And they’re reading the ingredients in the competitor’s ice cream and struggling mightily with ingredients like “xanthan gum” and “polysorbic acid” and “mono sodium glutamate” and such.
Then they hand a girl a carton of Breyer’s and she says “Oh! It has milk, cream, sugar, and strawberries!”
(They stopped running that ad and now a lot of their ice cream has the very ingredients they used to mock their competition for including. But it was a cute commercial when it ran and effective in that it made me think maybe Breyers was better than other brands.)
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I suppose it gets better the more context you have. She’s convinced that “they” are going to be taking away our meat and there’s a globalist conspiracy to make us eat preservatives and crickets and take vaccines and such. Something something makes us docile and sick and then we use “their” medicine that just makes us sicker.
Yeah, that’s a more than a little bit crazy. But if I’m the one buying the sour cream I do spring for Daisy. 
Yes, Breyer’s created the perception that it’s ice cream was natural and only had pronounceable ingredients. However, this was only for their all natural vanilla. It was 20+ years ago when Breyer’s vanilla did have 4 ingredients. Since then, the natural vanilla added “tara gum”, and as you mentioned, EVERY other Breyer’s flavor/type has chemicals/whatever in it. But the marketing worked, as people still assume Breyer’s is “healthier” when it is not.
It was definitely strawberry in the commercial, not vanilla, and even though I don’t usually buy strawberry, I did verify at the time that the commercial accurately portrayed the complete ingredient list (4 ingredients only) and it did. My quote was verbatim, I believe. But regardless, they’ve now added some of the ingredients they used to mock. Their ingredient list still tends to be shorter than most though, and I do still buy their mint chocolate chip.
That said, Tillamook is pretty darn good and currently on sale … I think at all Kroger-owned chains. Check it out!
Close, she says, “Milk, Strawberries, Sugar and Cream”.
Ok, I got the order wrong. There was a whole series of commercials and the one I was remembering had multiple kids in it struggling with the ingredients in the competition, but that’s obviously one of the same series of commercials I’m thinking of. (And the order of ingredients is probably the same in all of them.)
I stand corrected, Breyer’s did have only natural ingredients in multiple ice cream flavorsAfter some research, years ago Unilever bought Breyer’s and began putting tara gum and whey in most/all of their “all natural” products, and an infinite chemical list in others.
And similar to may other brands, the majority of SKUs cannot legally be called “ice cream”.