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?

  • teslekova@lemmy.ml
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    4 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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      4 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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        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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      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.