Every food commercial, advertisement, and packaging in the US is currently protein obsessed. I just bought 3 burritos, and the most noticeable thing on the entire package is its protein content. TV commercials about waffles are advertising that they have X amount of protein per serving. The products in my jobsite’s vending machine have protein all over every package.

Did America have a protein thing recently?

    • bedwyr@piefed.ca
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      6 days ago

      Anything wrong with seed oils would be from chemical used in their production or contamination of the soil and air where it’s grown.

      The fact none of them have mentioned that, shows they are acting cynically and in bad faith, refraining from calling out the real culprits of problems as they play the sheep for their own benefit.

      That said, the protein thing is way bigger than gym bros and health influencers. For over 15 years seemingly half the population is ocnvinced they are one high carb meal away from protein starvation.

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      6 days ago

      seed oils are posionous.

      You mean the industrial oils that didn’t exist 150 year ago, and thus are brand spanking new to the human experience?

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        5 days ago

        Shut the fuck up. Go to SE Asia and tell them nobody ate oil from crushed up seeds 150 years ago. Goddamn.

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          5 days ago

          Rapeseed oil is poisonous to humans unless it is chemically modified in refineries to make Canola. The population is fed 22 million tonnes of Canola a year.

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            5 days ago

            Lots of things are poisonous before we process them, including many things we’ve been eating almost since the discovery of fire.

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          5 days ago

          Not as a major source of nutritional energy, and regardless that isn’t what modern seed oils are today - they are highly refined industrial outputs that are so far removed from “crushed up seeds” its laughable.