above all else, processed foods are designed to maximize profits.
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I'm pretty sure that applies to organics too. It's just another marketing term
Reverse the perspective - organic food is something YOU were designed to eat.
Unprocessed food is food we concluded was okay after desperate people were forced to eat it long ago and didn't die.
Processed food is food we concluded was okay after desperate people were paid to eat it recently and didn't die.
Unprocessed food is more exploitative and erases the suffering of the past. Processed food compensates people for their exploitation, and there's no erasure of the suffering it causes.
I don't know how well this holds up, given that processed food is MADE from unprocessed food.
And we've progressed enough that we can tell if something is safe to eat without paying someone to eat it and watching if they get sick...
Not here for an argument, your comment is just genuinely confusing
All I got from that comment is "food is immoral." Guess I'll starve?
Nono, not acknowledging the sacrifices of the first people to forage a wild hot pocket and try it, blind to the knowledge of if it was edible or thermally safe is immoral.
When you eat a bowl of berries you're relying on the sacrifices of unpaid and forgotten people who tried them first and didn't die.
When you eat a heaping bowl of pop tarts ™ you're relying on the sacrifices of paid and forgotten people who tried them first and didn't die in legally actionable numbers.
The key to solving the immorality of exploiting these people is money, because money solves morality.
Much like the image, my comment is a joke, so I'd be genuinely worried if it held up particularly well.
No, not really. All the food we eat has been carefully bred for centuries, which has changed food way faster than evolutionary timescales. For some reasons everyone still calls that “natural” though even though nature has nothing to do with it, it’s just human engineering.
Like peanuts!
I think the word organic gets over used a lot, like "try our organic strawberries", I've never heard of chemical strawberries so what's the deal?
Really? You've never had starburst or skittles?
Even organic is chemical
could it be this referred to the farming method they used?
Afaik, organic is related to how things are grown and processed. For example, you shouldn't use the peel from normal lemons as they are treated with fungicide wax that is not exactly healthy. If you buy organic lemons, you can use the peel. But I agree that the term is overused and missunderstood a lot, and blindly trusting that organic foods are healthy does not work
I'm more of an inorganic strawberry person
They're much too crunchy imo. They really hurt my mouth and throat.
Mechanical strawberries are also not great for you
but would be a cool band name
With all the preservatives, you might live longer☠️
Bro they are just making sure that the zombies don’t rot too fast 🧟♂️ 🧟♀️ 🧟
It's safer to preserve you in the ground.
Checkmate
Made to eat by corporations just = food that doesn't immediately kill you/make you sick, but may do so later.
What a great way of thinking about it.
Just like I wonder why Crispers bags are resealable.