Are we largely being conned in the retail food industry ?!
I speak of such things as my local Chinoisery, who ptovided my with "fried seaweed" It was OK, but trabspired to be deep fat fried cabbage with a bit of salt bunged on
Similarly McD say the burgers are 100% beef, but when you find out which part of the beast they mean, it is questionable
"Whole grain" bread is no such thing
The grain, perhaps, but the husks ere removed, so it is back to white flour, with colouring
"Fresh salmon" is not It was caught a week ago and frozen
The whole show is a shambles in terms of honesty
At least my duck egg this morning came straight from my duck
Bob
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I speak of such things as my local Chinoisery, who ptovided my with "fried seaweed" It was OK, but trabspired to be deep fat fried cabbage with a bit of salt bunged on
Similarly McD say the burgers are 100% beef, but when you find out which part of the beast they mean, it is questionable
"Whole grain" bread is no such thing
The grain, perhaps, but the husks ere removed, so it is back to white flour, with colouring
"Fresh salmon" is not It was caught a week ago and frozen
The whole show is a shambles in terms of honesty
At least my duck egg this morning came straight from my duck
Bob
Yes we are all the time, the wording is often set to receive as well things like saying low fat when there is twice as much sugar to compensate .Things used to be so simple when everything was bought at the butcher and at the grocery shop where it was all weighed out and you knew exactly what you were buying,yes I can just about remember those days when my Mum was given a chair to sit on and read out her list and the grocer weighed and put everything into brown bags. we used to grow alot of our veg and bought the rest at the green grocer ,oh dear , sounding like a grumpy old woman now !!
Yes, you're absolutely correct. If I didn't need food to survive, I probably wouldn't bother with it
Change where you shop, if you shop at smaller suppliers you can ask what is in your food and get an honest answer!
Yep!.....The whole of the food industry is a massive CON dude, that's why we need to eat?.....
The cost of having someone else catch, grow, slaughter and cook your food for you cheaply. Or you can make an effort to sustain your local agricultural economy by doing a little research and buying from them or their retailers.
I agree. I'm becoming increasingly more paranoid about what I put in my mouth. I've heard that there's harmful chemicals in plastic bottles that may cause infertility, for example.
AH!
What are we supposed to believe? For this reason, I am moving out west to farm my own food! Who's with me? :)
Honestly though? How in the world could we go about fixing this huge mess?
I don't believe organic is truly chemical free, what with transportation, handling, packaging etc, how can it be guaranteed
I do believe that there is dishonesty in the retail food market, but it has improved a lot in recent years. As for what part of the cow the meat comes from, that much I dont really need to know, I just want to know I am actually eating beef and not sewer rat. You also can buy a whole cow and have it slaughtered, if you are truly paranoid about supermarket meat. As for whole grain, if the germ is removed than it is not truly whole grain, you can actually buy wheat germ and put it back in your food, but who really wants to do that? Not me. ALSO- BIG THING TO LOOK OUT FOR PEOPLE---So-called "healthy", "low fat", "sugar-free" foods are not always that healthy! The substitutes for all the good stuff that they are putting in these foods have not been tested for a lengthy period and we dont know what kind of damage we may be doing to our bodies. Like all the fat substitutes and sugar substitutes. Not to mention they have little to no nutritional value. So we may get thinner or lower our blood sugar but we could be poisoning our livers and kidneys in the long run. Buyers beware! Stick to all the whole fat and sugary stuff just in moderation. Happy eating! Dude I'm starving now..I want a hamburger!
Absolutely!!! And I say it as a professional chef.
A piece of info: the more processed the food the biggest the rip off, so avoid at all cost. Try to get the basic ingredients only and learn to cook as much as you can, it'll be healthier for you and and your wallet.