ITT: scary food facts

Salt?

A homemade pizza is still processed by you

Still working its magic. Notice low birth and high death rates. Obviously the rice.

The arsenic is mostly in the hull, so brown rice fags are really the ones getting it all.

they mostly eat white rice, which doesn't have as much arsenic as brown and rice grown in america has a higher level

organics.org/arsenic-in-brown-rice-everything-you-need-to-know/

Nah, making microwave rice
The best of rice

Sugar.

>organic

Want to know how I can dismiss you as a gullible retard susceptible to marketing schemes?

Even with freezers and refrigerators the best method of food preservation is still sugar/salt.

people who are allergic to cockroaches are also allergic to coffee

That's not true, fuck you liar

Think about this when bying minced meat/hot dogs

Yeah, and everybody touches a vag at birth. That doesn't mean you've punched your v card.

Want to know how I know you know nothing about how small and medium sized farms produce meats and veg organically?

I'm all in favor of starving people through needless inefficient and expensive land usage to satisfy your sentimentally inclined holier than thou messianic savior of nature delusion while using outdated pesticides with greater health implications to both your body and the soil.

Yea dude, remember that time they fed a whole side of pig through a grinder? It looked exactly like that no wonder everyone has autism! Think of how many hotdogs you must have eaten to get it so bad!

Sustainable organic agriculture (currently on a smaller scale but capable of moving larger scale) is more effecient, cheaper, better for the environment and when done properly does not use toxic pesticides. The use of pyrethrins in USDA certification was to placate big agri who wanted to keep their hand in the pie while still practicing scorched earth monoculture.

If we spent a fraction of the amount we pay big agri/chemical in corporate welfare subsidies to continue poisoning the population and earth on scaling up sustainability to larger and larger operations we'd be moving in the right direction. But no, it's far simpler to bury our head in the sand and continue to make the only known habitable planet in the universe unliveable.

>Sustainable

Even more meaningless buzzwords, I'm completely sold on the concept now!

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1892142/
>A white rice sample from Louisiana ranked highest in total arsenic (0.66 μg/g), and an organic brown rice from California ranked lowest (0.10 μg/g)
It just depends on where it's grown
>At one point during the reign of King Cotton, farmers in the south central United States controlled boll weevils with arsenic-based pesticides, and residual arsenic still contaminates the soil. Today, rice paddies cover fields where cotton once grew, and a large market basket survey published in the 1 April 2007 issue of Environmental Science & Technology now shows that rice grown in this area contains, on average, 1.76 times more arsenic than rice grown in California.

>food i've eaten since i was an infant is poison
at this point I just gotta say fuckit

All the food is poison. Even the napples

How is sustainable a buzzword.

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Arsenic is one of the few inorganic poisons that your body builds a tolerance to. I think it's liver related.

He's either a mindless troll who knows nothing about current small to medium (with potential to go large scale) organic agriculture or part of the monsanto idf.

>does not use toxic pesticides
You fucking retarded faggot, the whole point of a pesticide is to poison and kill.

I'm pretty sure that's his point famalam.

All farming practices are unnatural and harmful to the environment.
We now have the ability to live in a pseudo post food world. Great products like Soylent now exist.
Soylent is less harmful to the environment in addition to being far healthier than traditional whole food diets.

>All farming practices are unnatural
Everything human beings do is natural because human beings are part of nature.

What is more "natural", a beavers dam, or a nuclear weapon?

>"complete" meal
>only 20% of your day's nutrition requirements

Hmm...

monsanto shills thoroughly btfo

Im not for or against soylent (sounds miserable to use exclusively) but
>only 20% of your day's nutrition requirements
>Hmm...
so drink 5 servings per day if youre consuming nothing but soylent, you fucking brainlet

Haas avocados!

Sugar on pizza has a long and venerable history. Though to be fair, Scappi put sugar in everything. Ahead of his time.

The bottle is plastic.

Whatever you say, satan

Fun fact: if we grew all our food organically half the earth would starve next year, but at least you don't have scary TOXINS floating around in your dumb body

processed food can be described as: food that has been removed of structural integrity (wholeness) aka: cell walls have been disturbed.

sugar is a highly "processed food" as the fructose content in a plant has a corresponding amount of fiber. This is why processed sugars are harmful, as the fructose must be processed in the liver and the natural amounts of fiber slow the amount of work the liver has to do. Refined sugars really make your liver work overtime and cause excess body fats, just so you know.

fiber is another thing that gets "processed" as most grains are "refined" to lengthen storage quality etc, like refined white flour, or the corn in your cereal/doritos etc.

in the process of refinement or "food processing" a multitude of colorings, thickeners and preservatives are also added. None of which the human body can gain nourishment from.

there is a large difference between certified organic methods, or even uncertified wholistic methods of farming without toxic chemicals.

the chemicals used in "commercial industrial agriculture" are very harmful to humans and to plants, it is the reason they are used. They kill unwanted weeds, fungus, insects and small biology. These chemicals are intended to kill, so that's probably not the greatest to eat something soaking in it.

But its just simply not sustainable to eat industrially farmed agriculture, as the poison leeches into the ground and destroys the key biology that actually naturally uptakes minerals. Once the poison destroys the biology, the farmer is dependent on monsanto/big agriculture fertilizers to re-vitalize the now biologically dead ground, and because the chemicals are synthetic they never allow for proper biology to form, leaving weeds like annual grasses (which need herbicides like glyphosate) to rob any soils of nutrients, causing the cycle to continue again.

Until the farmers die, until the land becomes completely poisoned.

find a farmer's market, or community garden near you

Soylent is full of neuroendocrine disruptors and gave me neuroendocrine cancer. Keep drinking it though.

sustainable isn't a buzzword

it should be frightening that someone assumes such a thing, dire times bro

check out permaculture or biodynamic farming, or even polyculture farming. There are some very innovative new technique that apply old natural rules.

industrial agriculture is very clunky and there are many subsidies supporting large companies which control the markets (see ABCD shipping/production consortium)

Sustainable means the inputs are at least equal to the outputs of the farm. Current industrial monoculture is most certainly not sustainable.

the key is supporting small farms. A small farm can actually yield so much more while requiring a smaller amount of inputs. Modern industrial agriculture is called "intensive" agriculture for a reason. It uses more energy than it produces, we make up for that deficit because gasoline is prevalent, especially in the 1960s when it became "modern" agriculture. The tractor changing the world, etc.

A modern monoculture can only survive because it makes deals with other monocultures. The monoculture soybean and corn farmer will farm a crop for a company, the soy beans are refined and the by-products sold as food to an animal farm. The animal fertilizer is sold or traded to a corn/soy farm.

This is a symbiotic cycle that vegans want to avoid, and one that can be achieved much more efficiently and ethically on a small scale, with a farm that includes both animals and plants.

sustainable means that you have a diverse amount of crops, and an intelligent design that works with nature, and is actually strengthened by time, instead of working against it needing constant maintenance and outside support

very happy to provide some concrete examples if you're still confused about sustainability

Bump

>arsenic-in-brown-rice
*EATS A LOT MORE BROWN RICE*

1) Simple way to cover flavor defects
2) Cheapest energy around
3) Longer shelf life
4) Cheap as shit because the government subsidizes it
5) Would be cheap as shit even without the subsidizing
6) People buying processed foods got used to it so not adding it would be bad for business
7) Population control by lowering the life-span of retards

Make it in a drip-coffee machine. Somewhere in Asia they actually made a rice-cooker based on that process to remove as much arsenic as possible.

Tomato sauce has a lot of sugar.