it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.
A civil conversation with your local lake fish sturgeon
thinking about a long article I read a while back talking about the history of “ultra-processed foods” and how they related to american/western health issues. my main takeaway was a short paragraph buried in the middle of the article, where the guy who came up with the term just says outright “technically by these processing metrics tofu and sourdough fall into the same category as doritos and we’re not really sure how to square that circle” and the article just. moves right past that.
Thank you! Tofu, bread, cheese, cold-pressed olive oil, these are all more processed than bacon or chips! If you have a problem with emulsions, or artificial sweeteners that mimic sugars to enzymes without providing energy, or items kn an ingredients list that you personally don't recognise, then just say those things! Pretending that all processes are equally bad just takes people's justified anxiety about the quality of their food and says it's because of processes are bad. And that's the end of the analysis!
gyroid season