Dangerous Food Additives

    In the United States, many of our food and drink products contain additives that are banned in multiple other countries.  Everything from certain food colorings to growth hormones is known to many states to cause cancer, birth defects, or other illnesses.  To get straight to the point, if they are banned in many European countries, then why do we still use them here?  Most of those additives and preservatives are not necessary and can either be substituted out for something safer or just left out completely with no major difference to food and drinks.  If we already know how dangerous all of these things can be, then why do we continue to use them in our foods? There may not be an extremely worrying amount of these unnecessary ingredients in individual items, but with the majority of our groceries containing some sort of additives, it all begins to quickly add up.