If a thing is banned in 160 countries
(ractopamine-mentioned under #3) then probably it is not superstition but just faulty American food standards (enforced by the bought and paid by the food lobby US agriculture secretary threatening the WHO to withhold funds if it doesn't remove a damning report on corn syrup iirc for example) as you will see later on in the video shared below. Just to what extents the food industry will go and has went since the 70's, around that time when farms were being integrated into large corporations.
At #4, you have request to fast track GMO on which extensive, independant testing has not been done yet. That also doesn't sound too good, call it superstition or not.....there's more, i could go on....
My layman's logic says, that if a virus spread so fast and so aggresively, things probably ain't "tightly managed" at every end. For comparison :
Europe's bird-flu outbreaks pose little risk to humans : Nature News & Comment
If you add all this up, it isn't even half a million
(infected/killed), far below infact, wheras in the US just now 40 million were culled. Again, layman logic kicking in, saying the two events almost can't be comparable in scale.
No. Take one hour of your time to watch this. Not some fringe loony TV, but MSM paragon BBC reporting on the machinations of US food industry from the start in the 70's. Is well worth it. If anything, it might compel you to change your diet.
Try Radler of any beer producer. Lemonade and soft beer. Cyclist's drink!
As for the pic you quoted, i only recognized Oettinger. Well known in Europe, top selling brand in Germany.