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A comment on Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition. Parent comment

Re:Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition by YeGoblynQueenne on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:59PM (#25461649)
>> Ultraprocessed is a counter marketing term from the meat and dairy lobby.

This sentence risks framing industrially manufactured food products as equally nutritious to meat and dairy (and fruit and vegetables, beans and pulses, eggs and fish, etc. etc.).

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Re:Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday December 17, 2020 @09:19PM (#25463073)
It's a true framing! Off the top of my head, cheese, yogurt, tofu, and flour are nutritious and industrially manufactured through chemical processes. And I don't mean this in some tricky "everything is chemicals" way - you can look up pictures of the Chobani factory online, and it's pretty indistinguishable at a glance from any other snack food production line.
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Re:Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition by the-pigeon on Thursday December 17, 2020 @08:28PM (#25462750)
The point though is that this article decrying the influence on science by industry is itself influenced by industry and shows this by not using neutral terminology.
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