Check the FDA definition. Raw products are not considered processed.
It certainly is processed.
I've got that FDA document (updated).
The reason that calling food fetishists out on their food fetish is annoying to fetishists... is that they have to admit that they are.
It's a multi-billion dollar industry.
I understand your anger, irrational as it is.
Don't worry about it. We all wind up as worm dirt, eventually.
/johnny