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The western world needs to reintroduce "home economics" back into the curriculum, nobody knows how to cook their own food anymore, managing a kitchen is half of it not just putting stuff onto a stove.
The problem is not new. Just that the stuff is more expensive than just steaming vegetables and meats then put them through the blender, and in some developing countries, for poor families it's rice or wheat gruel.
I think it is not only issue with the price but also with the time to prepare it. They do not survive using one salary to have more time to care of the children. Or lets say two salaries but 1/2 work time both.
Actually, there is no place on earth nowadays to have possibility like that, with one salary.
And people are wondering why young generations do not make children.
Gen Silent with one salary had 5 boomer children. I would love to have one salary and 2.5 children working half time
Americentrism at it again.
4/5, in the USA, the rest of the world have such a thing as Government Mandated Food Standards that ban or discourage this shite.
Ultra processed food isn't just an american thimg. It's normalised to take cgildren to a McDonalds and feed them garbage has also become normalized all over the place. Ever seen a menue in a average restaurant? The kids menu isn't just a smaller version of a normal menu, it's chicken nuggets and fries, hamburger and fries and something else that has been tortured and processed
The kids menu is cheap sisco crap. I've had the same exact kids menu chicken tenders in 10 different states, which was the same chicken tenders as on some bar menus.
It's normalised to take cgildren to a McDonalds and feed them garbage has also become normalized all over the place.
I didn't know going to McDonald's once in a blue moon was killing children.
The kids menu thing drives me fucking nuts. I'll be at a Mexican restaurant and the kids options are hamburger, hot dog, buttered noodles or quesadilla. My kid eats everything because I always just shared my food with him, at least have some flipping tacos on the kids menu.
Let's be honest: this does not end with a cultural change or miracle: this ends when so many of us start dying, that civilization collapses, and people have to start over
In. The. States.
Someone tell RFK. It might be this instead of tylenol or circumcision that causes autism. /s
Yes, as we all know, infants should be fed a steady diet of raw milk and steak. All the better if the steak is from road kill. And eat it directly from a toilet seat. Germs can only hurt you if you're afraid of them!
I just read the exact same headline about prison food. Assuming that's because 80% of food in Magastan is ultra-processed, I guess we're gonna get the same headline for every possible institution now over the coming days.
... in the United States
This is the internet. Please consider the audience to be worldwide.
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Let me see if I can translate this article to a less trendy version:
.About 80% of the packaged foods marketed for children between 6 and 30 months include ingredients only used when creating packaged food at scale. Half of these either contained more fat, sugar, and salt than the WHO recommends or did not abide by the WHO's advice to eliminate food coloring.
Those packaged toddler foods are expensive as well. I’d wager most parents are simply giving their toddlers portions of foods they eat themselves over buying this crap.
That's how we fed kids before corporations convinced us that kids need packets of pureed veggies in a single use plastics
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thank you for removing these meaningless buzz words
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most baby food instore is either gerber or similar foods, or those fruit/veggie pouches, and baby junk food.
Why he eating the pizza backwards
The baby has issues
Kids do all kinds of crazy things if left unattended.
Crust-first pizza eaters are sociopaths
Say that to Donatello (the ninja turtle)
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What's a toddler food.
"Ultraprocessed" includes raw meat
It literally doesn't
since when is raw meat considered ultra processed?
"Ultra processed" is frankly a meaningless label in health discussions.
Raw milk is not healthier than "ultra processed" (i.e. pasteurised) milk for example. Ultra processed baby food is and should be the norm over raw, untreated baby food.
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