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Oh, this whole thing is just a long, rambling ad for their "healthy" fast food that doesn't use "chemicals" (or not even fearmongering about chemicals, just "too many ingredients.") I notice they don't specify what food this is that they're complaining about, some random fast food burger? No shit it isn't healthy, but it isn't because it has preservatives or ingredients that stop it from splitting or falling apart while cooking or whatever, it's the massive amount of sugar and fat that makes it unhealthy.
It's just such a strange phenomenon to me, I don't think I've ever met anyone in real life who is scared of "seed oils" and thinks fucking beef tallow is somehow healthier, I'm guessing this is an exclusively American phenomenon, I can't imagine pure animal grease being marketed as a "health food" anywhere else on earth.
I think a lot of it stems from the commodification of healthcare and an overall distrust of institutions. "They" just want you to get sick so that you can be given prescriptions etc. Which getting a general vibe of American capitalism isn't particularly sensationist, they can see that basically everything falls under the profit motive but aren't able to articulate why other than we're seen as disposable. This likely becomes more acute with age as people see friends/family abused and disregarded by health providers, and our monkey brains fall back on "Well there must be something I can do so this doesn't happen to me and I can't pronounce words with more than two syllables and things I don't understand scare me."
A lot of the organic fanaticism also comes out of the same vein, that most farmers are dousing everything with synthetic pesticides and are either ignorant or malicious with their use. Obviously if I can pronounce organic pesticides like boron or copper sulfate that means they're not bad for you and definitely don't bioaccumulate or cause brain and organ damage when ingested regularly (most people assume organic produce has no pesticides and that's why its more expensive).
Polysaccharide ooh scary too many syllables
Lead ahh good I know this word, safe to eat
This is also coming from someone that replaces olive oil in marinara sauce with beef tallow
https://xcancel.com/Tallow__/status/1959662476586291697
This right here is bigotry against Italians.
That's not marinara sauce. I dont know what that is, but marinara ain't it
Looks like they used tomatillos lmao
It looks like they used vomit, not tallow.
It absolutely does not use real San Marzanos. This person does what everyone else in the US does and that's buy the shitty knock-off tomatoes with the misleading logo. For some reason those are allowed to exist here, I suppose, because the Italians won't play ball on loosening their regulations for us or license their brand to US producers.
it looks like a serving size is 46% sugar+fat by weight.
by comparison, i have a chocolate chip cookie recipe i describe as the pancreas killer, only to be used once or twice a year to throw down at a potluck, which is 33% sugar+fat by weight.
i would love to know what monstrosity this box is for. also, 60g serving size? but 10% of your upper intake limit of salt? what the hell frosting-covered breakfast sausage is this clown stuffing into his gob?
Just remembered this old Snopes post https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/canola-oil/ so I guess the anti-seed oil crap has been around for a while.
Vegetable oils will give you super cancer has been around for a few decades probably. I just assume everytime I see a cooking video where they use olive oil for everything it's a product of this kind of propaganda.
I heard the seed oil stuff, and when I looked it up, there were so many legitimate-looking sites saying it was unhealthy, I thought there was something to it.
Although, it didn't really change what I buy, since I was using olive or avocado oil for cooking, anyway.
You'd love my father, he has a similar thought process that because it's homemade, it's healthier. Never mind that's it a cake with one and a half cups of sugar in it, or literally greasy red meat and bread or some other shit
He also is the type to ask a fruit seller if the fruit is good, so there's that.
People make some crazy extrapolations when it comes to food and I think it is all about how the information space is dominated by magical thinking. It is not eating too much sugar and fat, it is 'chemicals' that are poisoning you. Or maybe fiber is secretly bad for you. Or maybe its actually protein, so go on a sugar diet (latest fad). And so on. The way to success is always paved with one single and very special solution. This isn't an internet age thing either and, to be fair, we demonized fat until very recently. The food industry has been engendering this sort of thinking for a long time now.
The real value of homecooking is that you're empowered to make your own choices. You eat storebought food, they can add a lot of salt, sugar and oil to make up for, say, diminished appeal from worse ingredients. When you make your homemade pasta, you decide how much fat goes into your dish and when. I love making garlicky pasta frying the garlic in as little oil as I can just so I can add a good deal of olive oil after the fact.
Also they sell chicken tenders fried in beef tallow, none of that is healthy.