What’s Wrong with Processed Food?
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What’s Wrong with Processed Food?
University of North TexasDavid M. Kaplan
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Processed food defined: raw ingredients transformed into food
food altered for safety, marketability
Simple methods: cooking, slaughtering, drying, fermenting, preserving with salt
Complex methods: canning, freezing, refrigeration, dehydration, pasteurizing, curing
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Junk Food/Convenience Foods
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Genetically-modified foods
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Genetically-modified animals
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Functional foods
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In vitro meat
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Frankenfood?!
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Isn’t real food something like this?
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Technology as dehumanizing
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Romantic techno-mythThe good guys are:
Genuine Down-to-earth Mixed Humane Heart Real people
The bad guys are:
Insincere Uptight Uniform Robotic Mind Soulless machines
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Food techno-mythReal food is: Pure Local Organic Particular Unique/heirloom Tastes good Virtuous small
farmers
Techno-food is: Processed Global Industrial Universal Conformist Tastes bad Heartless
corporations
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What if there are only benefits? Toxin removal, preservation, shelf-life Transportation, distribution Better for animals Better for the environment Taste, convenience Better, more healthful
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Hard and soft impacts Hard = health, safety, environmental,
human rights
Soft = lifestyle, preference, cultural change
Empirical vs. normative hard impacts
Hard and soft: negative and positive
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Negative soft impacts GE food -- strikes us as creepy? -- doesn’t square with our sense that
food should be natural? -- rather not risk it? -- transforms traditional farming? -- doesn’t fit sense of self?
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Negative soft impacts GE animals -- strikes us as extra creepy? -- Yuck factor? -- quality of life for the animals?
Functional foods -- bad tasting? -- commercial nonsense?
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Negative soft impacts Junk food -- bad tasting? -- homogenizing? -- undermines local, regional cuisines?
In vitro meat -- no advantages over vegetarianism? -- doesn’t taste the same as the real
thing?
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Positive soft impacts Junk food? GE food and animals? Functional food? In vitro meat?
Positively affects the quality of our lives
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Food is political not metaphysical Avoid Romanticism
Avoid fetishizing nature
Avoid techno-phobia
Avoid Provincialism/Traditionalism