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This is such a pet peeve of mine. 'Processed' is not a classification: food is made up of molecules (chemicals), please describe it on those terms[0] /end rant.
by thereisnospork 6y ago
This is such a pet peeve of mine. 'Processed' is not a classification: food is made up of molecules (chemicals), please describe it on those terms[0] /end rant.
[0] w.r.t. its biochemical effects on e.g. the human body. A steak's flavor doesn't need to be couched in terms of its chemistry.
- goodluckchuck 6y agoAnd carcinogens aren’t limited to molecules. Heat, friction, time, etc. also cause cancer.
- jkinudsjknds 6y agoI think it's pretty reasonable to say that unprocessed meat is just an animal cut up into pieces, while processed meat is everything else (e.g. almost everything in a supermarket). Describing food via chemicals only isn't especially useful or easy to parse.