TLDR: lots of salt and artificial flavourings. But a lot of interesting chemistry goes into it too. There are annealing steps, and many other processes I don’t understand.

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      2 years ago

      Exactly. And I trust a plant based product processed in a highly controlled facility with some artificial compounds synthesised in an even more highly controlled facility, way more than meat cut out of a pen of obese animals crammed together, with not even enough room to avoid shitting and pissing on each other.

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      2 years ago

      In the most deprived parts of the world, yes, safe food is just not available. But most of the world does not have these problems.

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        2 years ago

        It’s the USA, generally not considered deprived, where meat is likely to be tainted with growth hormones, chlorine, antibiotics, as byproducts of food being treated as a commodity to be made as cheaply as possible.

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          That’s what I’m saying. Lack of access to a basic quality of food sounds like deprivation to me.

          But this is already off topic.