Okay, I hope that this helps some people who see this. People have been so completely disconnected from their food supply, that the average person will likely never personally encounter an actual chicken or a cow. Many will never see an apple tree or an orange tree or a potato plant. This is a BIG problem! It means that when people think of "food", the image of a fast food joint or a market pops into their heads. Perhaps even a specific food item like a Big Mac or Chicken McNuggets. People get thirsty, and they pop open a soda or perhaps they have a slight awareness so they pour some (equally unhealthy) "juice" from a carton emblazoned with "Healthy" and "100% Juice" on the label.
Eating processed foods is unnatural.
So how to re-connect people with their food? Show them where it comes from. Here is a good example...the ubiquitous apple. Here are some apples:
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This is what they look like on the tree they come from:
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If you buy whole apples, you are buying an unprocessed food. The only processes are picking the apple from the tree, then transporting them to wherever you buy them. If you buy them in any other form, you are buying a processed food. This includes slicing the apples, dicing or making them into a puree or applesauce, or adding them to other fruits in a packaged fruit salad. You are better off doing any processing yourself and not buying any pre-processed fruit products.
With meat, here is a good example, the chicken. The chicken in the picture is more like the ones we eat. It is easy to see in the picture how the live chicken could become the baked chicken in the other picture. That means the chicken is killed, the head is cut off and the feathers are plucked and the insides scooped out (or not) then baked. Provided this chicken was healthy when killed, then you are getting an unprocessed food when the chicken is raw (after the preparation described above). Cooking is the only process you do after buying the chicken. Adding seasonings and such is also processing, but if you are doing it that makes the difference. It gives you multiple opportunities to examine the chicken parts and the chicken itself for tumors, bad parts, etc.
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This is a chicken
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Not too hard to imagine how the live chicken became the baked one by looking at it.
Now, lets look at a widely eaten processed food: The "chicken nugget". What the hell is a chicken nugget? Well, its not chicken pieces which are breaded and baked. Its actually made from "mechanically separated chicken parts". This process takes the parts of the chicken we normally throw away when we are eating whole chicken parts. This would include tendons, pieces of tough meat left on bones after the more tender parts are eaten, gristle, internal organs, etc. Here is a short YouTube video on the process:
uke:
When was the last time you thought about where your food comes from? Most people just say "Well, today it comes from McDonalds, but tomorrow from Taco Bell". :facepalm:.
Eating processed foods is unnatural.
So how to re-connect people with their food? Show them where it comes from. Here is a good example...the ubiquitous apple. Here are some apples:
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This is what they look like on the tree they come from:
View attachment 26283
If you buy whole apples, you are buying an unprocessed food. The only processes are picking the apple from the tree, then transporting them to wherever you buy them. If you buy them in any other form, you are buying a processed food. This includes slicing the apples, dicing or making them into a puree or applesauce, or adding them to other fruits in a packaged fruit salad. You are better off doing any processing yourself and not buying any pre-processed fruit products.
With meat, here is a good example, the chicken. The chicken in the picture is more like the ones we eat. It is easy to see in the picture how the live chicken could become the baked chicken in the other picture. That means the chicken is killed, the head is cut off and the feathers are plucked and the insides scooped out (or not) then baked. Provided this chicken was healthy when killed, then you are getting an unprocessed food when the chicken is raw (after the preparation described above). Cooking is the only process you do after buying the chicken. Adding seasonings and such is also processing, but if you are doing it that makes the difference. It gives you multiple opportunities to examine the chicken parts and the chicken itself for tumors, bad parts, etc.
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This is a chicken
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Not too hard to imagine how the live chicken became the baked one by looking at it.
Now, lets look at a widely eaten processed food: The "chicken nugget". What the hell is a chicken nugget? Well, its not chicken pieces which are breaded and baked. Its actually made from "mechanically separated chicken parts". This process takes the parts of the chicken we normally throw away when we are eating whole chicken parts. This would include tendons, pieces of tough meat left on bones after the more tender parts are eaten, gristle, internal organs, etc. Here is a short YouTube video on the process:
uke:When was the last time you thought about where your food comes from? Most people just say "Well, today it comes from McDonalds, but tomorrow from Taco Bell". :facepalm:.
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