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Avoid These 5 Food Processing Evils by Doing Just One Thing
It is important to begin any discussion on food processing with the truth. Humans have always processed food in some way or another. You may hear people say things like, “Since food processing, everything has gone wild and wrong.”
However, processing food is uniquely human – something no other animal does. How weird would it be to see a bunch of lions chopping, soaking, drying and fermenting their food? Pretty strange indeed.
Processing food in a traditional manner serves two purposes; it helps to make food easier to digest and it also preserves it for times of need, something our ancestors always had at the forefront of their minds.
Old fashioned processed foods include such things as pemmican, hard sausage, dairy products including cheese, lacto-fermented foods, and wine and spirits, which all use nutritious raw ingredients and are processed in a way that does not disturb their nutritional content, even over long periods of time.
In addition, processing food in this manner kept money on the farm and in the farming communities – not in the pocket of major corporations.
With that said, it is also important to note that modern food processing bears little resemblance to traditional food processing. Even though both may involve some mechanical element – only modern food processing uses added chemicals.
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2014/04/avoid-these-5-food-processing-evils-by.html
