What Is Our Food Really Made Of?
Most of us don’t eat food the way our grandparents did. We eat products. They are engineered to travel long distances, sit on shelves for months, survive heat and cold, and still trigger pleasure when opened.
Most of us don’t eat food the way our grandparents did. We eat products. They are engineered to travel long distances, sit on shelves for months, survive heat and cold, and still trigger pleasure when opened.
Walk down any American grocery aisle and you are surrounded by color. Neon reds, radioactive blues, fluorescent yellows—foods engineered to look louder than nature ever intended. These colors are not incidental. They are synthetic food dyes, petroleum-derived chemicals designed to make processed food more appealing, more marketable, and more addictive. For decades, they have been…
In public discourse, hunger is often framed as a nutritional crisis — a problem of calories, diets, and access to groceries. But this framing is incomplete.