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This title belongs to a ‘Food Freedom’ post by Pauli Poisuo, Cracked
It speaks for itself, starting here:
If there’s one thing in the world the food industry is dead set against, it’s allowing you to actually maintain some level of control over what you eat. See, they have this whole warehouse full of whatever they bought last week when they were drunk that they need to get rid of — and they will do so by feeding it all to you. And it doesn’t matter how many pesky “lists of ingredients” and consumer protections stand between you and them.
#6. The Secret Ingredient: Wood
You know what’s awesome? Newspaper. Or, to be precise, the lack thereof. The Internet and other electric media have all but eaten up classic print media, with the circulations of almost all papers on the wane. Say, do you ever wonder what they do with all that surplus wood pulp?
“But Cracked,” you inquire, “what does this have to do with food ingredients?”
For the purposes of this article, you’re kind of an idiot. And we look at you squarely in the eye, then slowly bring our gaze upon the half-eaten bagel in your hand.
Oh, shit …
The Horror:
What do they do with all the cellulose wood pulp? They hide it behind a bullshit name and make you eat it, that’s what.
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The best part of waking up, is wood pulp in your face!
And everybody’s doing it. Aunt Jemima’s pancake syrup? Cellulose. Pillsbury Pastry Puffs? Cellulose. Kraft Bagel-Fuls? Fast-food cheese? Sara Lee’s breakfast bowls? Cellulose, cellulose, goddamn cellulose.
Et tu, Hot Pockets?
It turns out that cellulose can provide texture to processed foods, so food companies have taken to happily using it as a replacement for such unnecessary and inconveniently expensive ingredients as flour and oil. As the 30 percent cheaper cellulose is edible and non-poisonous, the FDA has no interest for restricting its use — or, for that matter, the maximum amount of it that food companies can use in a product. It is pretty much everywhere, and even organic foods are no salvation — after all, cellulose used to be wood and can therefore be called organic, at least to an extent.
But the worst thing about cellulose is not that it’s everywhere. The worst thing is that it is not food at all. Cellulose is, unlike the actual, normal food items you think you’re paying for, completely indigestible by human beings, and it has no nutritional value to speak of. If a product contains enough of it, you can literally get more nutrients from licking the sweet, sweet fingerprints off its wrapper.
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That loaf and the chopping block have an equal wood content.
It continues on to
#5. Zombie Orange Juice
#4. Ammonia-Infused Hamburger
#3. Fake Berries
#2. “Free Range” Chickens That Are Crammed Into a Giant Room
#1. Bullshit Health Claims
Read the whole article here. THANKS Pauli!
Moral of the story – eat organic, known products, local products, grow your own!
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- List of Companies Using Wood Pulp in Their Food Products (friendseat.com)
- Why is cellulose digested only by cattle not by us (wiki.answers.com)
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