"processed food", racism, antifatness
i hate the stigma that gets pushed on to "processed food"
especially the focus word used. "processed." as if 99% of food out there doesn't at some point undergo some kind of process. cooking itself is just a long string of chemical reactions leading to a end product
like sometimes you'll see a food ad where a corporation talks about using "ingredients you can actually pronounce", as if that has any bearing on anything, but they clearly just wanna hit an emotional target and be established as a "health food" brand
it's never actually any kind of valid criticism of anything specific. it's trying to provoke a fear reaction to this nebulous concept, and to push the idea that "chemicals", the things that all food and ingredients are already made of, are vaguely menacing.
same thing happened with MSG, and that one was rooted in anti-asian racism
it also tends to come right alongside antifat fearmongering, "the chemicals in the food are turning the people fat!!!" etc etc
it's such moral panic shit
-- cherry opossum 🌸
re: "processed food", racism, antifatness
@xenon also any ingredient you can actually pronounce can be replaced with the exact same ingredient but called something you can't pronounce
we've seen people get up in arms over seeing things like "sodium bicarbonate" on a label when
that's literally baking soda.
-F
re: "processed food", racism, antifatness
@Felthry @xenon So much of it is also just familiarity with the terms too, how much of the highly specific terms seen on shampoo bottles is required by law?