I've been like this ever since that study came out showing that most oats have glyphosate on them. Many processed foods have plastics, lead, etc. most conventional produce has harmful chemicals used on them. This has been the case for years already. Now, with bird flu spreading rapidly in cows, one failed pasteurization process could expose people to bird flu. That battery fire in CA near the area where most of the nation's lettuce is grown has been burning for months, exposing all the farmland to toxic air which settles on the lettuce. It's really challenging to maintain a diet with minimal hazards, especially when you are low income. Most people are exposing themselves to toxic materials at every meal.
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It does kinda feel impossible sometimes. At least in the US. Locally grown produce is not something that's easy to find at all. Even when there are local farmers markets and stuff theyre open like maybe half the year at the most.
Yeah, all we can do is minimize risk as best we can. I think it's worth putting in the effort, especially with food.
I think it's generally good to become more "ingredients first" in your diet: you become more creative in cooking, more appreciative of the labour that cooking requires, and you can become more resilient to making further changes to your diet depending on your health and/or circumstances.
I know there's privileges inherent to that, but if you have the means, the time, and the energy to cook from first principles more often then you should!
I am going the cheap approach to it myself lol. Just buying like rice, dried beans, chicken breasts can be pretty cheap i find them like 1.69$/lb, whatever produce is on sale for cheap, stuff like that. I guess another commenter made a good point that even those can be exposed to toxic stuff so I'll need to wash the produce really well i guess.
see, the MAHA agenda is already making you eat healthier
Idk if nutritionally its much different lol. Its more like instead of buying a rice meal box where you just dump it in and add water im just using plain rice, and adding stuff myself. I made refried beans the other day. Usually would get canned, but just got dried pinto beans and made them this time.
i've been trying to adopt a vegan diet for the last decade without much success and rfk has been a godsend for encourging me to go further. lol
I was a vegetarian for 10 years and stopped when i got told i cant eat gluten anymore. The combination of no gluten, and no meat made food just insanely expensive. Like half the cheap stuff that was vegetarian was suddenly not something i could eat. If i had the money I'd try to go back to it.
I hear you, but I'm my case: A big majority of the recipes I learned from my mother and grandmothers have been handed down over the centuries from dirt poor Mexicans who couldn't afford meat, so they're already vegetarian friendly.
If I can just figure it out how to conquer my American burgerstani cravings and comfort foods; I would have it figured out by now.
I mean even if its hard to like entirely get rid of meat reducing it still has the same effects really. Saying someone is either vegetarian or meat eater is lib shit. If you eat half as much meat as you did before its the same as being vegetarian half of the time. No need to be so hard on yourself. Im not sure how to help with cravings ive never been a fan of typical american foods anyway.
Good! Cheese burgers and carnitas are more addicting than crack cocaine; stay away if you can!!! Lol
Well i literally cant digest gluten so no bread or anything with flour cuts down on a lot of that even being an option lol.
How about corn?
Those ancient Mexican recipes I mentioned are naturally vegetarian & vegan friendly because of it and you can use corn to make several types of bread.
I do use masa and stuff like corn tortillas.
i like steaming them, tamale style so that i have can rolls and i put stevia in some of them for sweet rolls.
You should be very aware of the sources for any food that is typically inspected also.
Meats can be easily contaminated in uninspected processing plants.
Fruits and vegetables can be fertilized with human feces that is contaminated with things like e coli. This is particularly insidious when you consider how often these items are consumed raw.
Working with co-op farm organizations in your area that have a good reputation can help mitigate this.
Lastly, you can grow as much of your own food as possible, this can be a pretty low effort endeavor with things like kratky method hydroponics. Community gardens are great.
If you have some dirt you can grow some food.
Yeah even avoiding processed foods isnt completely ideal. Its a mess.