All of the things in meat loaf are recognizably food.

Meat, bread, eggs, dairy, onion, herbs, spices.

Industrial food has a lot of things which are much less recognizable as food.

Degrees of separation from something alive which I'd like to eat to the ingredient matters to plenty of people.

>Meat

Isn't that the ingredient in lab grown salmon? Also things you're calling "much less recognizable" are basically varieties of vegetable oil.

How is eating eggs not gross? It's a chickens egg...

And milk from a cows udder, how is that not gross?

You know there's puss and blood in cows milk because they all have raw infected udders from being milked non stop by a machine?

Enjoy your meatloaf!

In general I do not find eating animals or animal products offputting. I am an animal, I eat animals. The disconnect from nature caused by your entire diet being boxed and shrinkwrapped gives a person strange perspectives on biological reality.

Vegitables are grown IN THE DIRT THEY ARE BY DEFINITION DIRTY, FIGS CONTAIN DIGESTED WASPS, nearly every agricultural product contains at least a little bit of BUGS, FRUIT IS THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS OF A FLOWER.

Sigh.

Well said.

I will never understand how so many defend the expeller-propelled and solvent laden oils as somehow pleasant and natural…

You think squeezing something to get the oil out is unpleasant and unnatural? I don't know what to do with that, it's nearly as absurd as saying cutting food with a knife is gross and unnatural, you should use your teeth instead.

Have you looked up how seed oils are made? There’s very little squeezing and a lot of chemical spraying…

>expeller-propelled

An expeller is just a screw press. Get your terminology right if you're going to chase the latest food demonizing fad.

And yes, lots of oils are extracted by mashing up biologicals mixing it with a solvent like hexane and then evaporating off the solvent leaving a trace <1ppm behind.

I filled my gas tank today and did some spray painting without entirely appropriate ventilation. I'm sure most people regularly expose themselves to a little bit of organic solvent on a regular basis without a second thought or moralizing about it.