I beg to differ. Processed food is so completely stripped of all nutrients, bacteria won't even touch it. Most of the produce we eat is chemically enhanced and picked while still “green” so it can be shipped across the country. Regular farm animals are raised in cages while being fed the cheapest garbage and chemicals the farmer can get away with. Fish is farmed about the same way.
I started eating all organic about 5 years ago when I lived near lots of Amish farms. Including homemade icecream, cookies, fried food, etc. In 6 months, with no other lifestyle changes, I lost 50lbs and felt better than I ever remembered.
Humans were meant to eat natural produce ripe from plants and meat from healthy roaming animals. All this factory food is garbage. Try switching for just a few weeks and tell me how you feel.
But they are “unhealthy” only when consumed in large volumes and by people with sedate lifestyles.
And this, rather than the food itself which leads to morbidly obese people who die earlier. People have been eating fried foods for centuries but it only became a problem when such food became cheap and people ate more and had less strenuous jobs. Work which burned off those high calorie foods.
“Processed foods” are not inertly unhealthy. Yes fresh has more nutrients and tastes much better but processed foods are not dangerous. I live on a farm and we eat canned food because some fruits and vegetables we do not raise ourselves. We too prefer food as fresh as possible. Not strictly “organic’ as we do use pesticides and inorganic fertilizer as needed).
Now factory farms is another matter. Crowding livestock into cages or pens, letting them stand in their own waste Or the use of antibiotics or hormones to fatten up the animals is something that not only is bad farming practice but we feel is just plain wrong. Even immoral. So is feeding animal based protein(animal byproducts, i.e. slaughterhouse remains) to cattle is inertly dangerous because of diseases like mad cow disease is wrong.
This practices will cause untold miseries in the future more than another actions in our food supply. That's my opinion for what's it worth...