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“When you look at Impossible Burger or Beyond Meat, they have 21 or 22 highly processed ingredients. So processed, that you are hard pressed in identifying the
by OrvalWintermute 4y ago
“When you look at Impossible Burger or Beyond Meat, they have 21 or 22 highly processed ingredients. So processed, that you are hard pressed in identifying the difference between those items, versus let’s say, pet food.” [1]
[1] https://twitter.com/ghgguru https://twitter.com/ghgguru & https://clear.ucdavis.edu/blog https://clear.ucdavis.edu/blog
- roboticmind 4y agoThis is a false dichotomy. Plenty of people do whole foods plant-based diets without those. Additionally, it's also often replacing highly processed meats
- theshrike79 4y agoIs "highly processed" always the same as "bad"?
- DeWilde 4y agoHighly processed is almost always synonymous with the types of food that are considered bad for your health. From WP [0]: "he term ultra-processing refers to the processing of industrial ingredients derived from foods, for example by extruding, moulding, re-shaping, hydrogenation, and hydrolysis. Ultra-processed foods generally also include additives such as preservatives, sweeteners, sensory enhancers, colourants, flavours, and processing aids, but little or no whole food." [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-processed_food https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-processed_food
- mjevans 4y agoI would argue for the position of 'not always'. In my opinion it is much the same as GMO plants. The intent and target of the modification matters. A plant that is modified to tolerate deadly chemicals is evil; it must be handled carefully if consumed at all so that the chemicals it tolerates do not poison us. A plant which is modified to have a higher or higher quality (more nutrition?) yield might be good. Thus the highly processed foods. It depends on what the intent of the process is and how the results are used in the whole. Even if it might be less healthy I sure do love breads and noodles.
- tomp 4y agoCapitalism doesn't optimise for health, it optimises for addiction, profit, and lower costs (a.k.a. lower quality). So, yes, the more processed a food is, the more aligned it is to capitalistic motives, the less healthy it is.
- kcplate 4y agoThis alone makes me avoid these products like the plague. I honestly do not understand why if you desire and need “meat” enough to opt for a highly processed inferior meat analog, why you don’t just eat the real thing. Is there really any highly processed foodstuff out there that is truly healthy? Doesn’t really seem to be.
- turtlebits 4y agoNot all people avoid meat for health reasons. If there’s a market for it, so be it.
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- CorrectHorseBat 4y ago> I honestly do not understand why if you desire and need “meat” enough to opt for a highly processed inferior meat analog, why you don’t just eat the real thing. Many people would like to eat meat without the environmental impact/killing animals. What is hard to understand about that?
- kcplate 4y agoIt just has a strange irony to me. “I don’t want to kill animals, but I am not willing to give up the taste of their delicious flesh”
- pedrosorio 4y agoI don't understand how this is hard to follow: "Doing X gives me pleasure, it requires doing Y which causes suffering to entities that are not myself. I will avoid doing X and instead do X' which minimizes suffering in the world, even if it's not as good for me"
- triyambakam 4y agoThat's why I eat beans