2022-12-18
Fake food? Isn't that a new category of "Fake" altogether?
Not necessarily.
We have been told a lot of fake news about real food over many years if you ask me.
Take the fake news that saturated fat is bad for your heart, and we should all eat margarine (ie: fake butter). Really? That was debunked when we realised that trans fats AKA "hydrogenated fats" were not welcomed by our bodies and led to ill health. Some have likened these fats as only one step removed from plastic.
More recently the seed oil derived fats have been marketed with "low fat spreads" and some have been mixed with (ie: used to adulterate) real butter, no doubt "for our health". There are many who would disagree with the the idea that low fat or low saturated fat is a healthy option, including Dr Jerry Tennant who pointed out some years ago (amongst much else) that the body needs saturated fats to build new cells. Those unfamiliar with his story are recommended to watch his videos right through as he joins many dots that the medical industry seems determined to leave alone.
It's also true that we do need a certain amount of natural cold-pressed unsaturated fats (cod liver oil, hemp oil, linseed oil) although not in the same quantities.
What we don't need is oils that have been chemically messed with in a lab.
So fake food has been with us for a long time and the obesity crisis may be one result. If the body cannot detox and excrete the stuff it doesn't like then it will lay it down in fat, out of circulation, until such time as it can detox properly. As I believe somebody once said of morbid obesity: "that's not fat, that's sewage"!
Still, in order to save the planet, the corporations who only have our well-being at heart are now offering us lab-grown cultures that masquerade as meat ... no doubt in the hope that we won't notice when the farmers that we rely on for real food are forced off their land.
