Secrets of the food industry

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

I read it at the time to blame the post of a fresh immigrant, admiring the price and quality of American products (OMG !!! natural orange juice for 2 bucks !!!!) and mechanically his hand reached out to his face.

The entire food industry is working to prevent us from controlling what we eat. So that naive violets ate and receive deep moral satisfaction from this. And their bosses, perhaps drunk, bought some kind of shit on the cheap last week and now their task is to feed it to the consumer, bypassing the Merssian campaign to indicate the ingredients of which they were made on the products. Let's start with the first "secret ingredient".

Firewood

Newspapers are awesome. And even more awesome is their absence, when everything can be read on a computer, on a tablet, on a phone, or even on an advanced coffee maker. It's no secret that the internet has collapsed the entire newspaper industry. Taking the accompanying one - the production of paper. In which a lot of money has been invested and in which a lot of people are involved.

- But what does this have to do with grub?

- I'll tell you now.

Where does all the pulp produced in unmeasured quantities go? I explain - they feed her to us. Have you choked on a bagel yet?

Everybody does it. Aunt Jemima Pancake Syrup? Cellulose. Pillsbury Brownies? Cellulose. Kraft's bagels? Cellulose. Sara Lee breakfasts? Cellulose. Public cheese in hamburgers? Cellulose. Cellulose, cellulose, fucking cellulose everywhere.

Cellulose has proven to be an excellent filler, and food manufacturers are happy to replace unnecessary and expensive flour and oil with it. Cellulose is one third cheaper, edible and non-toxic. And the FDA is not eager to somehow limit its use, or rather, to limit its maximum content in food. It's everywhere, even in organic foods. In the end, with some stretch, this is a common organic matter. But this is not food, this is a filler that, by and large, has no nutritional value. Only beavers who are on a diet will be able to appreciate this.

The amount of wood in this bread is roughly comparable to the amount of wood in a cutting board.

Zombie orange juice

Immediately - what is the healthiest drink anyone would name? Orange juice, most would say. It is even recommended to drink it to prevent colds. Direct medicine. And on the packaging it is written in large letters - 100% NATURAL !!!!! NOT FROM CONCENTRATE !!!! WITHOUT SUGAR ADDITION !!!!

at least 4 drops per bucket

And why not believe it? This is not a toilet paper sausage. It's simple - you take an orange, you take a tax agent who is able to squeeze every last drop out of an orange. The result is poured into an appropriate container and delivered to store shelves. Something like that … except maybe the tax agent. Is not it so?

How about the "freshly squeezed juice" maybe a year old and going through a process that will make Dr. Frankenstein's hair stand on end?

Tropicana brand bottling shop. The missing color is orange.

Ever notice that every juice pack tastes exactly the same (and slightly different from a competing brand)? Always, at any time of the year. Despite the stated lack of additives and preservatives.

The process really starts by squeezing the juice out of the oranges. But this is the first and last normal part of the process. After squeezing, the juice flows into giant tanks, from where oxygen is pumped out. This allows you to keep the juice up to a year. And that's why orange juice is in stores all year round, regardless of the season.

Thanks to Tropicana for the screwdriver all year round

The process has only one drawback (from the point of view of the manufacturer) - it kills the taste. From the word completely. All that remains is a vintage, paper-flavored watery fruit puree. What is left for the manufacturer to do? Elementary! Give the liquid the desired flavor with a so-called "flavor pack", which is produced by the same chemical companies that develop the scents of your deodorants and perfumes. After that, the reanimated paper-flavored liquid is poured into containers and enters the stores.

And thanks to a gap in legislation, they don't even have to mention it on the packaging.

Ammonia burgers

All restaurants selling hamburgers go out of their way to convince us of the purity and naturalness of their cutlets. For example McDonald's ("All our burgers are made from 100% beef sourced from farms approved by the Left Sharaga approved by McDonald's beef farms") or Taco Bell (like all American beef, our beef is sourced from farms certified by the Department of Agriculture and passes our internal inspection), who are ready to sign the naturalness of each ground piece of meat. Their pathos in confirming the quality and purity of meat gives the impression that this is at least a filet mignon.

Elite dish!

And in general, with the exception of really rare cases of contamination of meat with E. coli, the meat is really clean. The problem is how it gets cleaned up.

Ammonia. The one that is part of fertilizers and toilet cleaners. He really kills E. coli perfectly, and generally tears hamsters to pieces. So a process was invented in which cutlets are passed through a pipe in which they are doused with gaseous ammonia. Nobody even guesses about this, except in rare cases when the minced meat really stinks of ammonia so much that the client returns the purchased product.

That's why the Big Mac smells like a urinal.

The ammonia process is an invention of Beef Products inc. for the sanitization of the cheapest animal entrails used in minced meat instead of the expensive tenderloin used by competitors (and which, according to the approval of public catering, we supposedly still consume, yeah). Ultimately, the demand for Beef products resulted in 70% of the hamburgers being supplied by them. Thank you ammonia.

Fake berries

Imagine a blueberry muffin.

One muffin, glutton !!!!

Even in spite of the information obtained above about the content of cellulose in it, it is difficult to suppress salivation. Cellulose is neutral - fix with it. Berries, on the other hand, are the quintessence of healthy eating to such an extent that they simply do not have the moral right to be so tasty.

If you think about the fact that blueberries are added to so many products, it becomes surprising that there are no blueberry plantations at every turn.

The problem is that of the blueberries you used in this way, only a tiny fraction of them came from the plantations. If I did.

Studies of products "containing blueberries" have shown that such blueberries do not exist in nature as a class. Delicious and juicy berries that come across to us in muffins are completely and 100% artificial. Manufactured using various combinations of syrup, starch, thickeners, food colors and "identical to natural" flavors, containing a bunch of arbitrary letters and numbers in the names.

Fraudsters in the law work perfectly well, you need to be a chemist yourself in order to catch them on something. In a sense, you can guess this by looking at the composition of the product, but manufacturers like to sprinkle with misleading terms like "blueberry cake" and so on.

Nothing says "yum" louder than dyes made in the petrochemical industry.

The difference between real berries and fake ones is, of course, huge. Fake ones can be stored much longer than natural ones and are incomparably cheaper for both the manufacturer and the buyer in the end. But the fact is that in them, unlike the real ones, there is absolutely nothing useful for health. This does not prevent producers from saddling a horse of Healthy Berries, sticking photos of real berries on the label and writing slogans on the packaging about the benefits of blueberries, despite the actual absence of blueberries in the product.

The good news is that producers are required by law to indicate that blueberries are not real. The bad news is that the law is silent about the exact form in which the information should be delivered to the consumer, and the producers of the products are breaking away in full. For example, Kellogg's Blueberry Flakes:

Despite the three berries on the box, the manufacturer does not even hide the fact that the product looks like not particularly disguised cellulose briquettes, smeared in places with minced Smurfs.

Betty Crocker or Target takes a different route. They add a trace amount of natural blueberries to their products, which gives them the legal right to advertise "natural flavor" and other goodies of natural berries, using mostly artificial ones.

Find three real berries.

Or you can just go for the "fuck you" route that General Mills went for with Total Blueberry Pomegranate. The whole idea of the big name, from which their entire marketing department received a collective orgasm, revolves around the supposedly adding a bunch of blueberries and pomegranates to the cereal.

In fact, all of their blueberries are 100% fake, and you don't want to know what their "grenades" are made of.

Free range chicken - free grazing chicken

Buying eggs from "free hens" is the best way to feel like a responsible shopper - these eggs are in every store and are not fundamentally more expensive than those produced by giant and vicious prison-type hate corporations. With this in mind, it makes no sense to buy "regular" eggs, only from "free" hens. True, no one is sure what this means. Everyone is only sure that animals should live in adequate conditions - the freer, the better. Therefore, why not encourage farmers who understand freedom and buy the meat of "free" chickens, cows and so on.

According to the law, meat (!) Poultry should not more than have access "to the street" in order to be labeled as "free". Uh … ok, with eggs, so, by definition, we fly by, plus this is not exactly the freedom that we imagined. Better than nothing, though. With access to the outside and all things …

In fact … words can be loud and mean nothing. In its original meaning, "free" (free range) means the absence of fences and other restrictions on movement. And the subconscious mind draws just such a picture. Free hens riding small horses wearing little cowboy hats and laying eggs of freedom in the process. A banjo is playing in the background …

Although … I declare with full responsibility - free chickens prefer Bogdan Titomir

In reality, with the exception of meat chickens, the term free range means absolutely nothing. By law, your snickers can be "free-range".

It's just that the industry knows how happy we become when we hear the magic mantra about free grazing and uses it in the tail and mane. And chickens on similar farms live in exactly the same prison. Only instead of cells, they serve their time in a shared shower room.

Hooray! Liberty!

Slowly but surely, people are starting to turn on their brains and learn about the realities of "free grazing." Not only that, manufacturers who go too far in lies are imprisoned from time to time. However, so far nothing has changed. Moreover, since January 1, 2012, the European Union has banned the eggs of hens living in cages. guess which eggs came to replace them?

Lies about the health benefits of the product

Nuts that reduce the risk of heart disease. Yogurt, which improves digestion and increases immunity. Baby food that protects your child from atypical dermatitis … whatever it is. Such products can be found everywhere today and to be honest - why not buy them? We eat one horseradish yogurt, why not do it with health benefits?

And this brand cures syphilis and diabetes.

One can only wonder where all these magical medicinal products came from. Yesterday they were ordinary nuts, and today a heart attack there, diabetes here … Looks like a fucking productive day happened in some research institute of health care.

Or everyone was once again deceived … uh …

Mister Nut can't lie !!!

In fact, the overwhelming majority of products that allegedly have a coke or a healing effect are related to the ancient art of outright lies. The healing effect of any "miracle of yoghurts" is smashed to smithereens by a medical student. But why do manufacturers continue to lie so openly?

It all started in 2002, when a bunch of mediocre food items were suddenly superpowered. The FDA, the organization that regulates such matters, has proposed a new category of lies regarding pre-approved food claims. They were called "qualified health claims." Another sheet of pure marketing bullshit that marketers can use if their products meet certain criteria. Nothing conceptually new - just another lobbying trick with the ears. What was new was the lack of a need for consensus on the part of scientists when claiming a particular health benefit.

In simple terms, the lack of a need for consensus means that it is enough to pay a lost person in Vegas in a white coat, who will confirm that your food has become magical and can be taken at his word, regardless of other opinions. And the producers suffered.

Each got pocket "scientists", claiming in their publications exactly what they need to promote "friendly" products.

I am not saying that all statements about the medicinal properties of this or that zhoreva are lies. There are probably enough of them. However, it is almost impossible to identify them in an avalanche of completely delusional (and legal) statements. Producers of grub, may be enough to lie, huh? What difference does it make to you, we will eat it anyway, no matter what is written on the box. After all, people even smoke voluntarily!:)