• ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Unprocessed food is food we concluded was okay after desperate people were forced to eat it long ago and didn’t die.
    Processed food is food we concluded was okay after desperate people were paid to eat it recently and didn’t die.

    Unprocessed food is more exploitative and erases the suffering of the past. Processed food compensates people for their exploitation, and there’s no erasure of the suffering it causes.

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      22 hours ago

      I don’t know how well this holds up, given that processed food is MADE from unprocessed food.

      And we’ve progressed enough that we can tell if something is safe to eat without paying someone to eat it and watching if they get sick…

      Not here for an argument, your comment is just genuinely confusing

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          13 hours ago

          Nono, not acknowledging the sacrifices of the first people to forage a wild hot pocket and try it, blind to the knowledge of if it was edible or thermally safe is immoral.

          When you eat a bowl of berries you’re relying on the sacrifices of unpaid and forgotten people who tried them first and didn’t die.
          When you eat a heaping bowl of pop tarts ™ you’re relying on the sacrifices of paid and forgotten people who tried them first and didn’t die in legally actionable numbers.

          The key to solving the immorality of exploiting these people is money, because money solves morality.