Hey: vegetarian and vegan junk food.
Soya veggie burgers and sausages generally use the same chemically extracted fraction of the bean. This meal is the product of the industrial crushing process the vast majority of the world’s soya beans go through. The raw beans are broken down to thin flakes, which are then percolated with a petroleum-based hexane solvent to extract the soya oil. The remains of the flakes are toasted and ground to a protein meal, most of which goes into animal feed. Soya flour is made in a similar way. The oil then goes through a process of cleaning, bleaching, degumming and deodorising to remove the solvent and the oil’s characteristic “off” smells and flavours. The lecithin that forms a heavy sludge in the oil during storage used to be regarded as a waste product, but now it has been turned into a valuable market in its own right as an emulsifier.
What does 2-3 million years of evolution know? This stuff's gotta be better than "artery-clogging-saturated-fats."
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Preach it!
I know this one family, their kid used to be skinny like a beanpole. Way skinner than my steak-eating ass. Damndest thing- he went veg, and he was always attracted to vegetarian junk food. Being Indian, the amount of fried vegetables he ate was even worse. Now he's fat, and even his mom and dad are always telling me about it. So many people go vegetarian, and use it as an excuse to stop THINKING.
I'm telling you- a new fad every day. And people just don't know how easy it is to put a stop to it.