11 days ago5 points(+0/-0/+5Score on mirror)4 children
Good comments. The consumer drives the market. Making people aware of what they are consuming is a big first step. Once the market demands change, the tech will follow
Most people don't care. Same with 50 year mortgages. They will see a low monthly payment for a house they will never own and jump at the chance to "own" it.
I care about what I rest but not enough to take a hard stance and do what I believe is best for me. It's about convenience, and price, and flavor I guess.
Back when Bill Clinton was president he sold off a large quantity of the strategic diesel supply. He caught a lot of grief but they were replacing it with canola oil (same thing). They were also letting farmers pay off back taxes with canola. The stubble after harvest is good for grazing cattle also.
11 days ago4 points(+0/-0/+4Score on mirror)1 child
This assumes that the average NPC is more influenced by its reason than its wallet, tastebuds, susceptibility to propaganda, etc.
Most people’s instant reaction when confronted with broad uncomfortable facts like that is denial and their defensive mechanism is to dismiss it as a conspiracy theory on the same level as chem trails.
I do x therefore its true! If the government didnt heavily subsidize corn syrup for nearly a century it would not be pervasive in the food market. It would not economically make sense to grow massive amounts of shitty nutritionless corn and store it in silos to rot without gov handouts.
11 days ago3 points(+0/-0/+3Score on mirror)1 child
You can also simply make cold pressed rapeseed oil (canola) just like olive oil, but I have heard that's impossible to get in the USA whereas in Northern Europe it's in every store.
Although I have to say the processed version is available in much larger amounts.
> Cold-pressed rapeseed oil can have a strong, "stinky" smell due to natural sulfur compounds, earthy flavors from microbial activity, or if it has gone rancid. The odor is caused by naturally occurring volatile compounds like isothiocyanates, which are part of the oil's natural makeup, especially in raw, unpeeled seeds.
That's why nobody wants it and why, in America, it's bleached for clarity and odor.
It is available in large quantities, though ... as a dietary supplement for horses.
11 days ago2 points(+0/-0/+2Score on mirror)3 children
They both make the food taste like shit. Use animal fat. Bacon grease. If you don't have a mason jar under the sink to pour your bacon grease into - now you know.
Olive oil does not taste like shit. Good EEVO tastes great.
But, I do save my grease, cut off and render fatty sections of roasts, and store the excess in the fridge, because that is also good shit, and not so unhealthy as they used to try to tell us (dying earlier would be worth it, even if it were true, though).
The fatties around you aren’t fat because they’re eating butter, they’re fat because they are eating mostly slop made from seed oils and high-fructose corn syrup that is so ultra-processed that it is functionally pre-digested so, on top of being insanely calorie dense, they don’t trigger satiety cues the way actual food, like butter, does.
It's undisputable and I think (most) everyone knows it.
I care about what I rest but not enough to take a hard stance and do what I believe is best for me. It's about convenience, and price, and flavor I guess.
That's the one fact I share with people about seed oils. If that's not enough, they're on their own.
Most people’s instant reaction when confronted with broad uncomfortable facts like that is denial and their defensive mechanism is to dismiss it as a conspiracy theory on the same level as chem trails.