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[–] 50 points 4 months ago (13 children)

Ultra-processed was designed so you can't stop eating it.

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  • [+] 26 points 4 months ago (9 children)
  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Funny, I can't respect a person that eats their Doritos in private fear while pretending they're above it in public. Zero trust.

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  • [+] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I don't care where your pipe is or what pipe your talking about or what pipe location even has to do with any of this, if you're too ashamed to eat Doritos in public, you don't deserve to enjoy them in private.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Well, if you stop eating you die anyway!

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  • [–] 48 points 4 months ago (11 children)

    Okay, this is a high quality shit-post.

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  • [+] 0 points 4 months ago (7 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (3 children)

    I said I've seen the same meme too many times and then I got ashamed of behaving like a redditor and deleted it :|

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    [–] 63 points 4 months ago (27 children)

    Should be whole food and not organic. You can process organic food how much you want. You can buy organic ultra-processed pure white beet sugar if you want. Doesn't mean it's healthy or chemically different than regular white sugar. Organic only applies to how it's grown, not what happens to it after leaving the field.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (19 children)

    Also "organic" is intentionallly misleading language that should be abandoned, if it's not organic, it's not food.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (17 children)

    What it means as a food label is (theoretically, at least), "not made with inorganic ingredients" i.e. certain kinds of pesticides/fertilizers or additives

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  • [+] 5 points 4 months ago (11 children)
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    How does that in any way contradict what I said?

    You know what most of those pesticides and other disqualifying things are? Inorganic.

    Of course there's more complexity to it than that, but in a nutshell that's why it's called "organic" and not "gleebleglanic"

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Sodium Chloride is not “organic” but there is not a single kind of life on the planet earth that can survive without it.

    So according to your (il)logic, NOTHING can be organic, your definition, not mine.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I said there's more complexity to it than that. I was putting it in overly simplistic terms to make it easier to grasp for the willfully ignorant.

    Also, plants don't require NaCl. Sodium is actively harmful to plants. They don't crave electrolytes.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Which part was misinformation? That inorganic things aren't food? Good luck arguing that point lol. Everything else I said was an opinion so idk where you're coming from there. I'm aware that a person or a committee or something somewhere was paid to redefine a word that already had a static, objective meaning for no reason other than to make more money, that doesn't stop it from being misleading and unnecessarily ambiguous. Why that word? Sure you've done your homework about this so you might consider yourself "immune" to the false advertising, but the majority of Americans have no clue and believe everything they see, as far as they can understand it. Most people like you who would be curious enough to do that research probably already know what organic and inorganic actually mean so they weren't really going to get duped anyway, but they make up a tiny portion of the population.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Which part was misinformation? That inorganic things aren’t food?

    Sodium Chloride is not "organic" but there is not a single kind of life on the planet earth that can survive without it.

    So according to your (il)logic, NOTHING can be organic, your definition, not mine.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Try eating nothing but salt, see how that works out for ya. "Food" is metabolizable, salt isn't. Salt's as necessary as water, yes, but also like water, it's not enough on its own.

    I never gave "my" definition of organic and logic really has nothing to do with it, it has an objective scientific definition already. With all due respect, if you're out there buying organic salt, you're exactly the kind of under-informed, over-paying consumer I'm trying to look out for.

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  • [+] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    They're using it in its chemistry meaning. In chemistry organic means a category of carbon based chemicals and reactions. Ironically that includes petrochemistry. This is a popular gotcha for a certain type of nerd.

    But yes, organic farming is a different meaning of the word, and it derives from a movement to treat the farm as an organism.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    It's easier to squeeze out smaller competition that can't afford to meet the requirements but aren't necessarily cutting corners or providing unhealthy or even less healthy products, netting more money for the companies that can jump through the hoops. And like you say, it's more expensive to get that organic label, that means someone is making more money. Now I assume I don't need to explain conflicts of interest or political lobbying to you, but that's because you're seem much more informed and aware than the average American consumer.

    I wish I had as much faith in American regulatory institutions as you, I guess experience has left me too jaded.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    I'm well aware of the "theories", what it actually functionally means is they can charge more while falsely implying food without that label is necessarily unhealthy and may, in fact, not even be food at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    If someone is uneducated about what food labels mean and which ones have a regulatory definition and which ones don't, then sure they might be duped into overpaying for shit that doesn't deliver on its promises. But organic is one of the few terms that are actually defined by regulation and have specific requirements to meet to use the label, so it's kind of weird that you would choose this one to pick a bone with.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    if someone is uneducated about what food labels mean and which ones have a regulatory definition and which ones don't

    Yeah you just described 95% of Americans, maybe more, thanks for illustrating my point! "They" (read: A politician) chose to use a word that already has specific implications for that market, which they absolutely didn't need to do and, imo, they almost certainly did on purpose. I don't like that, sorry 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Wait what politician is using the word in this context? I must have missed something.

    And just because loads of people are ignorant and uneducated doesn't mean we should abandon words just because they can be misunderstood. It was a weak point.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I was referring to the politician in charge of the USDA when they decided to redefine a scientific term for no other determinable reason than to make more money. Loads of people being ignorant and uneducated enough to misunderstand advertising is exactly the reason we have and need strong consumer protection regulations, like antitrust and fair competition laws.

    Idk what the last sentence is referencing or I'd address it, sorry.

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  • [+] [S] -13 points 4 months ago* (3 children)
  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Not true? In that some food is in fact not made of organic molecules?

    For example:

    Table Salt (NaCl)

    Water (H2O)

    No carbon, still food.

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    [–] 20 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    no processed food can beat the absolute genious design of the raspberry. easy to grab, clear information whether it's ripe or not, visually appealing, tastes wonderful.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Pineapple has entered the chat.

    "Bitch, I'm fruit on a pole! Yellow means go!"

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago

    my body love processed food so much that keeps it an extra day or two my guts

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (13 children)

    Hyperprocessed foods are designed to sit on store shelves as long as possible, be addictive, and have just enough flavor to make you want more while at the same time being made of the cheapest possible ingredients, sometimes even including weird things like titanium dioxide.

    Where do you get your fiber?

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    What's weird about titanium dioxide?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Do you normally add metallic powders directly to your food?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Every time you cook in a cast iron skillet.

    Which is actually recommended as a source of dietary iron.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Sounds like they are made with health of the consumer in the forefront.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    When you see a food decomposes, it's going to do something similar in your gut. If you see that a food never seems to decompose, you can bet that's not going to be great for your gut.

    And fiber really needs to be recognized as the essential nutrient that it is.

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