Open Thread

> As Denton described, the process to dehydrate and then concentrate those strawberries doesn’t seem quite so natural.

Please explain how & why. Stamping on grapes and storing them in dark places is ‘natural’? Drying and salting beef is natural? Cooking is natural? How far back do you want to go to describe this mythical standard?

As long as the food is not seriously adulterated and/or processed to the point of damage, dehydrating is perfectly ‘natural’.

YEah, rob, I should have expected appealing to your better nature was futile. But it was worth a try. Your worldview is pretty narrowly focused.

cmu, my beef is well expressed in snappy’s 1:57.

Organic, natural, they should be like something off the land, the way it was made before the same industrial farming techniques you despise.

We’ve replaced Red #2 with ‘organic beet juice’.
We’ve replace strawberries with ‘organic concentrate’.
We’ve replaced white sugar with ‘naturally milled organic sugar’

This is progress? This isn’t progress. This is the same shit for a buck more.

denton, now you’re being really specious. You don’t know the connection between the label ‘organic’ and factory farming? Come on. It’s the same discussion…how we have f&_)ed up the food chain, and btw, organic automatically means anti-factory-farming, so it’s totally relevant.