Maybe they shouldn't have spent the last decades filling our food with fucking shit
Everything was fine till people kicked up a fuss about lard. We need more lard and msg. Best things ever.
Food Scientists Are Getting Fed Up with Picky Eaters
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#12> Then they came for monosodium glutamate. Even though food companies say it is harmless, they eventually pulled it from many products, because that’s what the customer demanded.
So? If there isn't a good reason for it to be in the food, then it probably shouldn't be. On the other hand, if there is a good reason (e.g. the food lasts longer), then I see no reason why not let the market decide what they prefer.
In general, it's not entirely unreasonable to not trust companies. They're mainly after high profits, so unless there is "market pressure" (such as customers not/wanting certain ingredients) they will just continue poisoning us in different ways (lead in gas, nicotine/smoking, trans fats, etc). It also doesn't help that e.g. orange juice is advertised as "all natural pure oranges" but tastes like a high school chemistry lab trash bin.
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#13This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think it’s great that processed food manufacturers are trying to replace synthetic ingredients with actual food. I don’t see a problem here.
It would make sense if the deciding factor would be consumer's health. Instead, it's the appearance of being "natural", which is not in itself better than something synthetic or modified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
A good example of this is meats like bacon and pepperoni cured with “celery juice powder” or “celery extract” instead of “nitrates”, when the former contains just as much of the same carcinogenic nitrate salts they would’ve used, but it’s “natural”.
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#14If I want vitamin B12 I don't need to eat fortified cereals. I can just eat beef or tuna.
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#15"food scientists" being fed up with untrusting "eaters" should have said food scientists wonder why said eaters lost trust in the products they make. Could this have anything to do with the shit they've put for years in industrial products while not under scrutiny? Rapists not raping anymore because someone is following them everywhere can't brag about their rape-free attitude.
Are you literally comparing guar gum with rape?
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#16"food scientists" being fed up with untrusting "eaters" should have said food scientists wonder why said eaters lost trust in the products they make. Could this have anything to do with the shit they've put for years in industrial products while not under scrutiny? Rapists not raping anymore because someone is following them everywhere can't brag about their rape-free attitude.
Are you literally comparing guar gum with rape?
It's called an analogy.
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#17I truly think this is because picky eaters are easy to market to; they pay attention to flashy advertising rather then hard science. We have an entire generation of people that think GMOs are somehow harmful and also ignore the tremendous environmental impact of so called organic foods. The same people taking birth control are reaching for grass fed hormone free milk and beef.
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#18Could this be a food industry backed opinion piece?
The lobbyist could then say: Look, people misunderstand things like dihydrogen monoxide. What should we do with the ingredient list? Perhaps we should have the freedom not to mention scary sounding ingredients?
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#19This might be an unpopular opinion, but I think it’s great that processed food manufacturers are trying to replace synthetic ingredients with actual food. I don’t see a problem here.
What exactly is the benefit of replacing Red #40 with red cabbage extract?
Well, potentially quite a lot of benefit:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-dyes-linked-to-allergies-a...
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#20> Then they came for monosodium glutamate. Even though food companies say it is harmless, they eventually pulled it from many products, because that’s what the customer demanded. So? If there isn't a good reason for it to be in the food, then it probably shouldn't be. On the other hand, if there is a good reason (e.g. the food lasts longer), then I see no reason why not let the market decide what they prefer. In gene…
Monosodium glutamate is there as a flavoring, just like any number of seasonings. Nobody says that thyme or oregano shouldn't be in food unless they help preserve it longer. There's no evidence whatsoever that it's harmful to anyone, and it's a common part of Asian cooking. The furor over MSG is that it has kind of a funny name and people are still in a tizzy about the racist panic over "Chinese restaurant syndrome" from a few decades ago.[1]
1) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/may/21/chinese...