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UPFs are destroying the planet. most farmland is used to produce six staple crops, which depletes soil quality, driving up use of artificial fertilizers and pesticides. most of these grain outputs are used to feed animals, instead of humans, which is a large waste as well. global supply chains also destroy the environment. frankly, the vectors through which UPFs destroy the environment are innumerable, but the chapter on the book that discusses it does a good job of pointing out the tip of the iceberg.
A scathing takedown . . . This impassioned polemic will make readers think twice about what they eat Publishers Weekly Unsettling and deeply important. . . . [ Ultra-Processed People] integrate[s] concepts of detailed food science and global market forces, showing how these affect individual humans. Tulleken weaves these threads together in a way that is evidence-based, compelling and humane. . . . A tremendously important book that will help readers choose less processed, better food.” —Vincent Lam, Toronto StarChange the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. What happens at the end of my trial? A devastating, witty and scholarly destruction of the shit food we eat and why.” —Adam Rutherford, bestselling author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived Some ultra-processed foods may activate the brain reward system in a way that is similar to what happens when people use drugs like alcohol, or even nicotine or morphine.”
Only in recent years have efforts accelerated to understand the consequences of this dietary takeover.Urged to eat only food our great-grandmother would recognize as food, we may forget, too, that she would have prized white pastry flour (chemically bleached flour has been available since 1906) and oleomargarine and the hydrogenated oils, like Crisco, that became common soon after 1900. And are the people who follow their nineteenth-century forebears and dine on hominy (from alkali-treated corn), pork belly, and lard-saturated greens—or, for that matter, fat-streaked and highly saline pastrami—making a healthy choice? The history of humanity is the history of processing foodstuffs—by fire, by smoke, by pounding and pulverizing—and it can be hard to find a boundary between those ever more hallowed traditional kitchen practices and the modern ones that we are asked to condemn. VERNEL OW - WHEY POWDER (MILK); WHEY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE (MILK); CALCIUM CASEINATE (MILK); SALT; ACIDITY REGULATOR, TRISODIUM CITRATE: ARTIFICIAL ANILLA FLAVOUR; EMULSIFIER, MONO- AND DIGLYCERIDES (E471)L *PRODUCED FROM GENETICALLY MODIFIED SUGAR BEETS, CORN, AND SOYA BEANS". For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. For too long we've been told we just need to make different choices, when really we're living in a food environment that makes it nigh-on impossible. So this is a book about our rights. The right to know what we eat and what it does to our bodies and the right to good, affordable food.
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