the Interceptor
I LUV MY PRIUS!!!
I used to do it once in a while, meanwhile I do it regularly. I started to find ingredient lists particularly interesting when I learned that the order is dependent on the amount of the specific ingredient. Thus, when a beverage reads "Water, Sugar, ...", I put it back.
Also, I find the food industry repellent to an increasing degree. I mean, what is the food industry good for anyways? Mass-producing foods to make them available and affordable - yes. BUT ... and this is the catch ... they will also try to find substitute materials which make you think it's the real stuff, but it isn't. I mean who nowadays wouldn't put salami made of minced uteruses onto their deep-freeze pizza if it makes the production cheaper? I liked to think that there is some integrity left, but I think those times are well and gone. It is a highly engineered, profit-orientated business where they try to sell you everything as long as you don't notice, don't barf and don't die. A man once raised a very interesting question about the food industry: what good things has food research brought us in the last 50 years? There is exactly one thing: deep freezing. Everything else they have invented is designed to increase profits by using cheap substitutes.
Disgusting on the same level is the bullshit they write on their packaging. They make almost everything seem either premium, healthy or both. That most of what you put in your shopping cart mainly contains fat, sugar or even both is a simple fact. But they find nice names for it, they bend the truth or even simply lie outspokenly. They also find nice names for nasty things in the ingredient list. The German government has tried to prevent the ridiculous advertising here and there, but since the food lobby is quite an influential one, they always got away. Basically they're saying:"We design a product we can produce as cheaply as possible, we advertise it with blatant lies so you buy as much as possible of it, and we don't give a shit what it does to you as long as you can't sue us." ... except they're not actually saying it.
The food industry sucks, which is why I see myself moving further and further away from prepared food and towards selfmade food. For me, it's like a computer I build by myself. All hand-picked ingredients, so I know exactly what's in it. I love eating, and it has a huge impact on my body as well. That said, shoving an industrially made product into it without thinking about it has never been a good idea.
Also, I find the food industry repellent to an increasing degree. I mean, what is the food industry good for anyways? Mass-producing foods to make them available and affordable - yes. BUT ... and this is the catch ... they will also try to find substitute materials which make you think it's the real stuff, but it isn't. I mean who nowadays wouldn't put salami made of minced uteruses onto their deep-freeze pizza if it makes the production cheaper? I liked to think that there is some integrity left, but I think those times are well and gone. It is a highly engineered, profit-orientated business where they try to sell you everything as long as you don't notice, don't barf and don't die. A man once raised a very interesting question about the food industry: what good things has food research brought us in the last 50 years? There is exactly one thing: deep freezing. Everything else they have invented is designed to increase profits by using cheap substitutes.
Disgusting on the same level is the bullshit they write on their packaging. They make almost everything seem either premium, healthy or both. That most of what you put in your shopping cart mainly contains fat, sugar or even both is a simple fact. But they find nice names for it, they bend the truth or even simply lie outspokenly. They also find nice names for nasty things in the ingredient list. The German government has tried to prevent the ridiculous advertising here and there, but since the food lobby is quite an influential one, they always got away. Basically they're saying:"We design a product we can produce as cheaply as possible, we advertise it with blatant lies so you buy as much as possible of it, and we don't give a shit what it does to you as long as you can't sue us." ... except they're not actually saying it.
The food industry sucks, which is why I see myself moving further and further away from prepared food and towards selfmade food. For me, it's like a computer I build by myself. All hand-picked ingredients, so I know exactly what's in it. I love eating, and it has a huge impact on my body as well. That said, shoving an industrially made product into it without thinking about it has never been a good idea.
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