• ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      No, not really. All the food we eat has been carefully bred for centuries, which has changed food way faster than evolutionary timescales. For some reasons everyone still calls that “natural” though even though nature has nothing to do with it, it’s just human engineering.

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      10 hours ago

      Unprocessed food is food we concluded was okay after desperate people were forced to eat it long ago and didn’t die.
      Processed food is food we concluded was okay after desperate people were paid to eat it recently and didn’t die.

      Unprocessed food is more exploitative and erases the suffering of the past. Processed food compensates people for their exploitation, and there’s no erasure of the suffering it causes.

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        I don’t know how well this holds up, given that processed food is MADE from unprocessed food.

        And we’ve progressed enough that we can tell if something is safe to eat without paying someone to eat it and watching if they get sick…

        Not here for an argument, your comment is just genuinely confusing