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  • AShadyRaven@lemmy.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHelth
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    1 month ago

    It helps to define what processed food is, specifically what constitutes “processed”

    From Wikipedia:

    Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms.

    Food processing takes many forms, from grinding grain into raw flour, home cooking, and complex industrial methods used in the making of convenience foods.

    Tertiary food processing is the commercial production of what is commonly called processed food.[2] These are ready-to-eat or heat-and-serve foods, such as frozen meals and re-heated airline meals.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_processing

    TLDR; anything you do to a food item besides picking it up and eating it raw is considered “processing” if you want to be pedantic.

    Colloquially, “processed foods” as a marketting and culinary phrase typically means “Tertiary Food Processing” but thats too many words to say every time you want to discuss potato chips



  • free markets are a shitty idea, but ive never seen one in real life before.

    I think America would actually benefit from switching to a free market economy, instead of our current bullshit where our politicans are too spineless to tell companies like Boeing “sucks to suck” when they ask for yet another handout instead of doing any real work


  • thats what they taught us about communist Russia when i was in highschool

    Our economics class learned that their “public” sector was a mix of private companies acting as both private citizens AND government agencies.

    And my teacher was like “imagine if all the roads and utilities and infrastructure for the country was run by private, FOR PROFIT businesses that benefit from laws written for citizens, AND from laws written for corporations but are not bound by either”

    20 years later i realize thats how its been here the whole time


  • we dont have a free market. We have what i can only describe as Inverse Socialism

    its socialism for the wealthy and the corporations, and “free market” for everyone else

    this is part of the reason why theft of property from the rich, or violence against them, is not morally wrong.

    They get tax breaks that we all pay for, and they influence policies that help themselves while killing us.

    You cant steal what you already paid for, and its not murder when its self defense