The weird moral grandstanding against Peanut Butter had to be the strangest part.
I suppose you’re not aware that peanut butter manufacturers (and many other food manufacturers) in the states were allowed to cut their product with partially hydrogenated oil because it’s cheaper and doesn’t go rancid as fast. GRAS strikes again.
Unfortunately partially hydrogenated oil is pretty bad for most humans: raises LDL, lowers HDL, correlates with colon cancer, etc etc.
FDA didn’t ban it until c. 2020.
One of the few things actual nutrition scientists agree with RFK Jr. on.
If you exclude all processed foods with preservatives and say if not for Certified Organic foods you'll just not eat, you don't really come off a struggling.
It's just an absolutely weird thing for the author of focus on.
I would rather go hungry than develop health problems from filling up on ultraprocessed hydrogenated oil government peanut butter.
That is a bizarre, privileged thing to say. Actually hungry people - people at health risk from food scarcity - don't say things like that. People making hypothetical choices say things like that. Some few people facing skipping a single meal might choose that.
But here's the real kicker FTFA:
We would go to the catholic food box donation center and they gave me a box, but I was vegan and the box was full of garbage Spam and Frank and Beans type stuff that I ended up just settting out on the curb.
This person TOOK donated food, turned up their nose at what it included, and THREW IT OUT. They did not return it so someone else could benefit.
Even most Hindus don't advocate wasting already dead meat when others could eat (the Dalai Llama himself stated that it was no sin to eat meat, if it was already prepared for you - not at your agency - and all that was available). Even most Jews and Muslims don't try to keep others on their own religious diet choices. But this person essentially stole food (took, but didn't use) and threw it away.
That's morally worse by far than simply not giving to charity when one could. This is an immoral person.
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I suppose you’re not aware that peanut butter manufacturers (and many other food manufacturers) in the states were allowed to cut their product with partially hydrogenated oil because it’s cheaper and doesn’t go rancid as fast. GRAS strikes again.
Unfortunately partially hydrogenated oil is pretty bad for most humans: raises LDL, lowers HDL, correlates with colon cancer, etc etc.
FDA didn’t ban it until c. 2020.
One of the few things actual nutrition scientists agree with RFK Jr. on.
I'm sure him eating once would of been fine.
If you exclude all processed foods with preservatives and say if not for Certified Organic foods you'll just not eat, you don't really come off a struggling.
It's just an absolutely weird thing for the author of focus on.
It’s a single sentence in a long blog post. You’re the one that’s focused in on it.
And now you’re putting words in the author’s mouth, too. Not much discussion to be had about that.
The author's words:
That is a bizarre, privileged thing to say. Actually hungry people - people at health risk from food scarcity - don't say things like that. People making hypothetical choices say things like that. Some few people facing skipping a single meal might choose that.
But here's the real kicker FTFA:
This person TOOK donated food, turned up their nose at what it included, and THREW IT OUT. They did not return it so someone else could benefit.
Even most Hindus don't advocate wasting already dead meat when others could eat (the Dalai Llama himself stated that it was no sin to eat meat, if it was already prepared for you - not at your agency - and all that was available). Even most Jews and Muslims don't try to keep others on their own religious diet choices. But this person essentially stole food (took, but didn't use) and threw it away.
That's morally worse by far than simply not giving to charity when one could. This is an immoral person.
He's upper middle class and has been for a while. The entire article is his entitlement.
The peanut butter example demonstrates this.
You don't look a gift horse in its mouth.