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Well said. The example that popped into my head was this: Impossible Burger is "healthier" than regular beef burger. Health aside, these sorts of conclusions
by grvdrm 2y ago
Well said.
The example that popped into my head was this: Impossible Burger is "healthier" than regular beef burger.
Health aside, these sorts of conclusions (I'm guilty too) say nothing about how processed or not something is. My anecdotal take: an Impossible burger is processed food.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoPut another way, health is very multi-dimensional. I'm quite confident that an Impossible Burger is healthier along some dimensions, and a beef burger healthier along others. Food marketers are experts at exploiting this: if a food is unhealthier in 397 different ways but healthier in 1, then guess what gets highlighted on the packaging....
- grvdrm 2y ago> I'm quite confident that an Impossible Burger is healthier along some dimensions, and a beef burger healthier along others. Agree! And I was quite deliberate in not making that point in my statement.
- Ekaros 2y agoI would say impossible burger is at very far end of ultraprocessing. Hamburger could be simply just processed. It really comes to what those terms mean, but impossible burgers are more processed than hamburgers. And likely don't solve other issues of burgers.
- grvdrm 2y agoRight. I wasn't making a point about environmental impacts, for example. I know some folks see that as the main differentiator (that I understand). My point was just to draw a distinction between what seems more "processed" vs not - knowing that the terms aren't well-defined.