John Hawthorne - Nothing manufactured is natural

 

Open Topic #2

               INGREDIENTS: UNBLEACHED ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE {VITAMIN B1}, RIBOFLAVIN {VITAMIN B2}, FOLIC ACID), SOYBEAN AND/OR CANOLA OIL, SUGAR, SALT, DEXTROSE, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, SOY LECITHIN, BAKING SODA, ONION POWDER, DEHYDRATED COOKED CHICKEN, HYDROLYZED CORN AND YEAST PROTEIN, SPICE EXTRACTIVES (INCLUDES CELERY), ASCORBIC ACID, FLAVOR ENHANCER (DISODIUM INOSINATE AND DISODIUM GUANYLATE). CONTAINS: WHEAT, SOY.

               I’m looking at this box of “Chicken in a Biskit” Chicken crackers, and I started thinking, “well how do they get chicken seasoning I doubt it comes from the chicken” and while it says it has chicken in it, I did a little digging, and all the flavor comes from artificial spices and MSG. So, I started researching what exactly is included in those and exactly how much natural resources were needed to make this box of crackers, the Water Wars movie kind of sparked this question. This specific brand didn’t have a lot of information, BUT some other curious spirit asked this question regarding the average bag of potato chips. Taking everything into account from the operations of the farm to the wasted potatoes that don’t make it to production, to the oil and seasonings used, and the estimated amount of potato chips eaten by the average American. To make the 5.5 billion pounds of potato chips eaten every year in the US, it requires 21.9 billion pounds of potatoes, I had to do some calculations myself to find that just the potatoes use 744600000000 gallons of water per year. I didn’t even look at that number because it’s so incomprehensible I just plugged it all in the calculator. As for the oil, seasonings, and everything additional, that number just gets exponentially larger.

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