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Re:Lab-Grown Salmon Hits the Menu at an Oregon Restaurant as... by colechristensen on Monday August 18, 2025 @11:53PM (#44948105)
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.

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Re:Lab-Grown Salmon Hits the Menu at an Oregon Restaurant as... by bowmessage on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @02:29AM (#44948827)
Well said.

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

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Re:Lab-Grown Salmon Hits the Menu at an Oregon Restaurant as... by colechristensen on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @11:18AM (#44952570)
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.
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Re:Lab-Grown Salmon Hits the Menu at an Oregon Restaurant as... by bowmessage on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @11:31AM (#44952755)
Have you looked up how seed oils are made? There’s very little squeezing and a lot of chemical spraying…
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Re:Lab-Grown Salmon Hits the Menu at an Oregon Restaurant as... by colechristensen on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @01:18PM (#44953901)
>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.

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