I probably wouldn’t eat it myself. Not due to “Muh meat. Muh masculinityh!” – but because i feel like, that everytime we mess too much with food, we end up making it bad for ourselves in some weird way. Processed foods and all that jazz.
So i’ll continue eating my legumes, greens and the monthly beef.
We’ve done SO much selective breeding to make our food hardier and more plentiful, that we now have so much that we’re complaining about it not being pretty enough, or that the tomato that grows three fruits a year is slightly less tasty than the plant that might produce one, or not.
Honestly, it’s a great time to be alive to eat stuff we couldn’t even imagine a century ago.
Agree - but i personally think there’s a huge qualitative difference between selective breeding over long periods of time – and then producing a fully artifical beef in a lab. One is a slow natural process with human intervention and the other is a fully synthetic process.
Processed food isn’t bad for you… GMOs aren’t bad for you… that’s the propaganda farmers use to keep you from making common sense choices.
“Processed” is anything that goes into a machine. You want your beef ground up? It’s now processed. What’s added in the processing is what you need to isolate and be weary of.
“Genetically Modified Organisms” includes bananas which have been selectively cultivated to provide more nutrition and reduce seed sizes. It’s a result of intelligent agricultural practices to maximize food production and minimize inedible waste.
Plant based meat has been an incredible substitution for meat making it cruelty free without compromising much on taste or texture, if at all.
Lab grown is the next step, making genuine meat without slaughtering animals. I’m not aligned with PETA but I think an ideal future is one where we don’t need to kill sentient life in order to have exactly what we do right now.
You can have your own opinion but at the very least be aware of the origin of your bias.
“Processed” is anything that goes into a machine. You want your beef ground up? It’s now processed. What’s added in the processing is what you need to isolate and be weary of.
I don’t disagree necessarily, but food that’s been ground up into a paste is essentially pre-chewed. It definitely makes it easier to gulp down more before your brain catches up to your stomach and you start feeling full. This goes for apple sauce as much as it does chicken nuggets.
I suppose but that’s not inherently unhealthy or even bad for you in the traditional understanding of the phrase. I understand not wanting to drink your calories as someone who struggles with significant weight loss, but the what about the inverse? I’m sure there are some people who need to drink profound amounts of calories just to survive.
If you want unprocessed applesauce, buy apples. They’re a choice no different than anything else.
I think when most people talk about “processed food”, they’re referring to ultra-processed food, and just grinding beef would not be enough to classify it as an ultra-processed food
Nope, agriculture has existed for a looong long time. With that said, i try to limit my intake of food grown in conventional agriculture with pesticides and all that shit.
I’m not anti-technology on food per se. But i’m very sceptical whenever we introduce new foods or stuff to put into our bodies. It feels like 30 years passes and then the article “X is super fucking bad for you actually” comes out. So i try to limit myself to ingesting stuff that have existed for a long time - because at least then we know the long term effects of them.
I agree. I remember when skim milk and margarine were supposed to be good for you. Beans and peas already exist, are cheap, store forever, and can be used in so many different ways. Fake meat feels like an overly complicated way to solve a problem that’s already solved, with the added bonus that they could cause horrific health problems that won’t be identified for decades.
I probably wouldn’t eat it myself. Not due to “Muh meat. Muh masculinityh!” – but because i feel like, that everytime we mess too much with food, we end up making it bad for ourselves in some weird way. Processed foods and all that jazz.
So i’ll continue eating my legumes, greens and the monthly beef.
We’ve done SO much selective breeding to make our food hardier and more plentiful, that we now have so much that we’re complaining about it not being pretty enough, or that the tomato that grows three fruits a year is slightly less tasty than the plant that might produce one, or not.
Honestly, it’s a great time to be alive to eat stuff we couldn’t even imagine a century ago.
Agree - but i personally think there’s a huge qualitative difference between selective breeding over long periods of time – and then producing a fully artifical beef in a lab. One is a slow natural process with human intervention and the other is a fully synthetic process.
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I also miss your wife
Processed food isn’t bad for you… GMOs aren’t bad for you… that’s the propaganda farmers use to keep you from making common sense choices.
“Processed” is anything that goes into a machine. You want your beef ground up? It’s now processed. What’s added in the processing is what you need to isolate and be weary of.
“Genetically Modified Organisms” includes bananas which have been selectively cultivated to provide more nutrition and reduce seed sizes. It’s a result of intelligent agricultural practices to maximize food production and minimize inedible waste.
Plant based meat has been an incredible substitution for meat making it cruelty free without compromising much on taste or texture, if at all.
Lab grown is the next step, making genuine meat without slaughtering animals. I’m not aligned with PETA but I think an ideal future is one where we don’t need to kill sentient life in order to have exactly what we do right now.
You can have your own opinion but at the very least be aware of the origin of your bias.
I don’t disagree necessarily, but food that’s been ground up into a paste is essentially pre-chewed. It definitely makes it easier to gulp down more before your brain catches up to your stomach and you start feeling full. This goes for apple sauce as much as it does chicken nuggets.
I suppose but that’s not inherently unhealthy or even bad for you in the traditional understanding of the phrase. I understand not wanting to drink your calories as someone who struggles with significant weight loss, but the what about the inverse? I’m sure there are some people who need to drink profound amounts of calories just to survive.
If you want unprocessed applesauce, buy apples. They’re a choice no different than anything else.
I think when most people talk about “processed food”, they’re referring to ultra-processed food, and just grinding beef would not be enough to classify it as an ultra-processed food
Yep, my bad! I was referring to ultra-processed foods.
Stop doing agriculture. If you’re going to be anti-technology on food, then be an anprim.
Nope, agriculture has existed for a looong long time. With that said, i try to limit my intake of food grown in conventional agriculture with pesticides and all that shit.
I’m not anti-technology on food per se. But i’m very sceptical whenever we introduce new foods or stuff to put into our bodies. It feels like 30 years passes and then the article “X is super fucking bad for you actually” comes out. So i try to limit myself to ingesting stuff that have existed for a long time - because at least then we know the long term effects of them.
I agree. I remember when skim milk and margarine were supposed to be good for you. Beans and peas already exist, are cheap, store forever, and can be used in so many different ways. Fake meat feels like an overly complicated way to solve a problem that’s already solved, with the added bonus that they could cause horrific health problems that won’t be identified for decades.