Fake food is poison, plain and simple. It should be banned. And it's gotten even more poisonous than it was before. What's interesting is that I'm noticing more and more pets are getting sick, so they're being poisoned as well. I've been hearing horror stories about friends and family members having to take their pets in for emergency care or paying for expensive procedures. I don't remember this being like this even a few years ago.
Buying directly from farmers helps, and making as much food as possible from scratch.
Yes, cheap pet food is a big problem too. Dogs and cats aren’t designed to eat cereal and grains mixed with leftover animal parts scraped off the cutting room floor at the slaughterhouse. Pet food contains what we won’t eat.
You can get high quality pet food, for a price. Or go to a butcher and get rice and veggies, to make your own dog food. But most people don’t have the time and money, or don’t make the time. So the dog gets Walmart dogfood and develops metabolic diseases just like a human would if all they ate was cereal with a side order of human food from the SAD diet.
You know, we live and learn ad we go. I fed my very first dog (more than 30 years ago) cheap bags of dig food from grocery store shelves and had no idea how bad it was. But she still lived to 13. My second dog and current dog both ate/eat expensive food because we are wiser now. The second one lived to 14 and the current one is still young. I take better care of my dog than some people take care of children 🤣
No food pouches for the pup? Glad to hear it! Our cat gets pricey organic food that seems expensive, but inly in comparison to the cheap stuff at Walmart.
Simplifying the complex difference between processed and natural food, such as “the doughnut is an empty package, while the wheat berries are a tightly wrapped present,” drives the point home. This informative and compelling article offers practical steps for families while refreshingly challenging unhealthy norms.
Yikes, I didn't know about the food pouches for older kids. To me this is right up there with pushing your six year old around in a stroller instead of them walking - a bizarre trend I can't understand for the life of me.
That organic food meme says it all. How on earth did humans stray sooo far away from actual food? And what are these food pouches you speak of?? That sounds gross 😝
The food pouches aren't quite as common up here in Canada - yet. But we have them. Baby food in a pouch, marketed to toddlers and children. And as soon as they get big enough, teenagers. Soon we will be able to go to a McDonalds drivethrough and order a Big Mac and Fries Pouch, and suck up our liquified burger and fries.
That makes me literally feel like puking just imagining it 🤢 I know of the baby food pouches because I buy the organic veggie ones to put in my dog’s food lol. They have no additives and they're only a dollar each. She thinks it's a pot of gold 😄
Convenience is not always best. Parents are bamboozled into thinking these foods are good for their kids. I mean, why not when a well known celebrity has a company that makes and markets them. Celebrities wouldn’t steer us wrong, would they ??
I used to be too trusting when I was a young parent too. I would never have believed that companies would do whatever they could get away with, no matter the long term consequences. I never questioned the food that was available. But we always cooked from scratch, because it just cheaper. Everyone who thinks real food is more expensive than factory food doesn’t know how to make salad, casseroles and chili.
I just saw this article in the Washington post! I read your article and was picturing applesauce or yogurt in a pouch but didn’t realize the extent of this and I’m frightened! Wow
Hope so also! But people/society has gotten lazy and things are at our disposal soo easily. Our modern conveniences are and have already caused long term health consequences! I just read Michael Easter’s, The Comfort Crisis, and currently reading The Lies I Taught in Medical school (don’t remember if you recommended that one or another substacker) highly recommend both!
Great article! Real food is much cheaper than prescriptions after eating a lifetime of UPF.
I would agree! Thanks for reading
Fake food is poison, plain and simple. It should be banned. And it's gotten even more poisonous than it was before. What's interesting is that I'm noticing more and more pets are getting sick, so they're being poisoned as well. I've been hearing horror stories about friends and family members having to take their pets in for emergency care or paying for expensive procedures. I don't remember this being like this even a few years ago.
Buying directly from farmers helps, and making as much food as possible from scratch.
Yes, cheap pet food is a big problem too. Dogs and cats aren’t designed to eat cereal and grains mixed with leftover animal parts scraped off the cutting room floor at the slaughterhouse. Pet food contains what we won’t eat.
You can get high quality pet food, for a price. Or go to a butcher and get rice and veggies, to make your own dog food. But most people don’t have the time and money, or don’t make the time. So the dog gets Walmart dogfood and develops metabolic diseases just like a human would if all they ate was cereal with a side order of human food from the SAD diet.
You know, we live and learn ad we go. I fed my very first dog (more than 30 years ago) cheap bags of dig food from grocery store shelves and had no idea how bad it was. But she still lived to 13. My second dog and current dog both ate/eat expensive food because we are wiser now. The second one lived to 14 and the current one is still young. I take better care of my dog than some people take care of children 🤣
No food pouches for the pup? Glad to hear it! Our cat gets pricey organic food that seems expensive, but inly in comparison to the cheap stuff at Walmart.
I read this comment right after responding to the other one that indeed I do give my dog organic veggie pouches over her kibble 😁
Simplifying the complex difference between processed and natural food, such as “the doughnut is an empty package, while the wheat berries are a tightly wrapped present,” drives the point home. This informative and compelling article offers practical steps for families while refreshingly challenging unhealthy norms.
Thanks for your insight Jon! I always appreciate the way you point out and sum up what I was trying to say.
Yikes, I didn't know about the food pouches for older kids. To me this is right up there with pushing your six year old around in a stroller instead of them walking - a bizarre trend I can't understand for the life of me.
I haven’t been able to figure out the stroller kids either
Completely brilliant article about yet another horrific trend with UPF. Should be plastered on the side of buses.
I wonder how much a bus billboard costs…
That organic food meme says it all. How on earth did humans stray sooo far away from actual food? And what are these food pouches you speak of?? That sounds gross 😝
The food pouches aren't quite as common up here in Canada - yet. But we have them. Baby food in a pouch, marketed to toddlers and children. And as soon as they get big enough, teenagers. Soon we will be able to go to a McDonalds drivethrough and order a Big Mac and Fries Pouch, and suck up our liquified burger and fries.
That makes me literally feel like puking just imagining it 🤢 I know of the baby food pouches because I buy the organic veggie ones to put in my dog’s food lol. They have no additives and they're only a dollar each. She thinks it's a pot of gold 😄
Convenience is not always best. Parents are bamboozled into thinking these foods are good for their kids. I mean, why not when a well known celebrity has a company that makes and markets them. Celebrities wouldn’t steer us wrong, would they ??
I used to be too trusting when I was a young parent too. I would never have believed that companies would do whatever they could get away with, no matter the long term consequences. I never questioned the food that was available. But we always cooked from scratch, because it just cheaper. Everyone who thinks real food is more expensive than factory food doesn’t know how to make salad, casseroles and chili.
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Exactly! I actually get full with 1 apple. I have to remember this when I binge on Simple Mills paleo chocolate chip cookies. Hehe.
Those chocolate chip cookies! A weakness of mine
Hehe. I now buy them in bulk on Amazon. Hubby likes them too.
An essential read!
We're moving like blind pigs in this entire colony of junk food, often falsely labelled as 'healthy', 'fresh' or 'good for the heart'.
Can't thank you enough Tim!
Thank you for your comment! There sure is a lot of misinformation being spread about food, we have to be aware.
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I just saw this article in the Washington post! I read your article and was picturing applesauce or yogurt in a pouch but didn’t realize the extent of this and I’m frightened! Wow
I hope that it isn’t as widespread as it seems. I hope people can start resisting the urge to take the easiest path.
We raised three kids and both worked outside the home, and we weren’t rich. So I get it. Parenting is hard. The long term consequences, though!
Hope so also! But people/society has gotten lazy and things are at our disposal soo easily. Our modern conveniences are and have already caused long term health consequences! I just read Michael Easter’s, The Comfort Crisis, and currently reading The Lies I Taught in Medical school (don’t remember if you recommended that one or another substacker) highly recommend both!
I didn’t recommend, but I’ve read both. And I agree that many people will get a wake-up call with their health.
And these pouches are also an environmental issue!
Does our body work as well on people?