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Years ago I read about the massive amount of grease (food waste from kitchens) in the London sewer system and thought ~what went wrong in our (my/Western/Euro-c

Years ago I read about the massive amount of grease (food waste from kitchens) in the London sewer system and thought ~what went wrong in our (my/Western/Euro-centric) culture where we don't use the fat? Also, if animal fat is important for our health, that's another reason we don't scale well as a species. Seven billion humans and life on the planet continues to groan. Ties in with the thread about how comicbook stores aren't kid-friendly; we (the relatively wealthy, globally) have been growing accustomed to having whatever sideshow we want as the main course in life. It's an easier life for a few of us in the short run, and an interesting experiment. [0] [0] https://www.worldcat.org/title/ultimate-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy/ https://www.worldcat.org/title/ultimate-hitchhikers-guide-to...

debacle 5y ago
From my perspective: Pork raised on a small farm has ridiculously pure white fat. Heritage bacon fat turns clear as it is cooked. It's delicious, even unseasoned, and the texture is firm and pleasing. The flavor is nutty. Industrially raised pork fat is disgusting. It is pinkish gray, milky, and stringy. It does not properly render during cooking (seems like too much connective tissue). It is mostly flavorless, or even acrid, and the texture is more chewy than firm. The problem with the US farm system is that our food should be more expensive. Eggs, poultry, pork, beef, but also many vegetables. breads, etc, just don't have the dietary benefit that we had in the past. Garden grown celery is almost inedible raw - the flavor is so intense a single stalk can flavor an entire stew. Garden grown carrots are hearty and flavorful. The quality of the food we are producing tends to be abysmal.
scns 5y ago
We can can unsaturated fat from olive oil and omega3 from walnuts/flax- or chiaseeds. <add> ~70% of mankind lives close to water, ie have acces to fish (O3). There are tribes that that don't. When they shoot an ape, they eat the brain (O3) and intestines (unsaturated fats). The meat gets thrown away.

debacle 5y ago

From my perspective: Pork raised on a small farm has ridiculously pure white fat. Heritage bacon fat turns clear as it is cooked. It's delicious, even unseasoned, and the texture is firm and pleasing. The flavor is nutty. Industrially raised pork fat is disgusting. It is pinkish gray, milky, and stringy. It does not properly render during cooking (seems like too much connective tissue). It is mostly flavorless, or even acrid, and the texture is more chewy than firm. The problem with the US farm system is that our food should be more expensive. Eggs, poultry, pork, beef, but also many vegetables. breads, etc, just don't have the dietary benefit that we had in the past. Garden grown celery is almost inedible raw - the flavor is so intense a single stalk can flavor an entire stew. Garden grown carrots are hearty and flavorful. The quality of the food we are producing tends to be abysmal.

scns 5y ago

We can can unsaturated fat from olive oil and omega3 from walnuts/flax- or chiaseeds. <add> ~70% of mankind lives close to water, ie have acces to fish (O3). There are tribes that that don't. When they shoot an ape, they eat the brain (O3) and intestines (unsaturated fats). The meat gets thrown away.