Posted on 07/16/2016 11:41:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Among the many things New Yorkers pride ourselves on is food: making it, selling it and consuming only the best, from single-slice pizza to four-star sushi. We have fish markets, Shake Shacks and, as of this year, 74 Michelin-starred restaurants.
Yet most everything we eat is fraudulent.
In his new book, “Real Food Fake Food,” author Larry Olmsted exposes the breadth of counterfeit foods we’re unknowingly eating. After reading it, you’ll want to be fed intravenously for the rest of your life.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
In what way is it fraudulent?
It’s real food, just not what you think you’re buying. Pay for really expensive something or other, but get a lesser version or get some of the expensive item cut with something else.
wonder what if anything the book says about produce, is what’s labeled USA really mexican or south american?
Does organic really mean anything anymore?
Gotta move back to where I can have a garden again :)
Can you give me an example?
I don’t eat over 90% of that fancy pants food they mention in the article anyways, so I could care less.
A lot of fish isn’t what’s labeled. For example, a lot what the menu says is Chilean Sea bass, is something else.
I’ve consumed zero seafood since the twin catastrophes of the Gulf spill and Fukushima. God only knows where that stuff is really coming from.
If I ever eat fish again, it’s going to be something I catch myself out of a clear, clean mountain stream.
Spam is no scam.
Had Kobe beef in Japan. OMG.
Started to pay attention to our food supply when I noticed so much of our tilapia comes from China. (Net says Chile’s fish is just as bad.)
Learned much of olive oil is a scam. Do some googling before you buy.
Organic may not really be organic. They can still cover it with pesticides.
From the article:
Think you’re getting Kobe steak when you order the $350 “Kobe steak” off the menu at Old Homestead? Nope — Japan sells its rare Kobe beef to just three restaurants in the United States, and 212 Steakhouse is the only one in New York. That Kobe is probably Wagyu, a cheaper, passable cut, Olmsted says
> Organic may not really be organic. They can still cover it with pesticides <
That’s what I figure so I don’t waste my money buying organic.
Wow, this is worse than I even knew.
It’s ghastly. I’m glad this article listed a lot of labeling standards we can look for to guarantee clean food.
The deal as I’ve always understood is to basically eat what your great grandparents ate; stay out of the middle aisles of any supermarket and all processed foods as much as possible. Many people don’t do this and eat a diet of crap 90 percent of the time and we are what we eat in a sense. Pretty simple. And don’t eat after 9:00pm if you want to be thin- hard to do sometimes.
Funny they mention “escolar” being substituted for tuna in sushi, but won’t say which fish they mean; the name “escolar” can be applied to at least eight different species of fish, from the so-called “butterfish” to the snake mackerel.
It’s clickbait
The EU just wants to make certain that you are getting genuine pizza.
It’s a cookbook!
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